scholarly journals Organizational Level Factors of Knowledge Worker-Workplace Fit: Identifying the Key Drivers

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
Laura Gaižauskienė ◽  
Živilė Tunčikienė
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Temporal Perspective ◽  
Organization Level ◽  
Human Management ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Workplace Fit ◽  
Time Division ◽  
Different Levels

Abstract Nowadays there is bigger than ever mismatch between knowledge worker competencies and workplace requirements. In order to ensure a fit between these two elements, the concept of fit needs to be analysed from a different temporal perspective as well as different levels of the organization. The factors which affect the fit are identified using micro strategic human management system lens and two-periodical time division of time. When the fit is interpreted as the dynamic phenomenon, then it becomes the factor by itself to ensure organization level dynamic capabilities. The purpose of this article is to identify factors of knowledge worker-workplace fit. The methods used to reach the goal were analysed and synthesis of scientific literature were made.

scholarly journals Innovative entrepreneurship in emerging and developing economies: the effects of entrepreneurial competancies and institutional voids

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh ◽  
Amir Pezeshkan ◽  
Rosa Caiazza
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Institutional Voids ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Innovation Barriers ◽  
Entrepreneurial Competencies ◽  
Emerging And Developing Countries ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractInnovative entrepreneurship is one of the key drivers of economic development particularly for less developed economies where the economic growth is at the forefront of policymakers’ agenda. Yet, the research on how various factors at different levels interact and bring about innovative entrepreneurship in emerging and developing countries remains relatively scarce. We address this issue by developing a multilevel framework that explains how entrepreneurial competencies attenuate the negative impact of innovation barriers. Our analysis on a sample of individuals from 24 economies, 17 developing and 7 emerging countries, reveals that entrepreneurial competencies become more instrumental for innovative entrepreneurship when general, supply-side, and demand-side innovation barriers are higher. The findings offer unique insights to policymakers particularly in developing countries interested in promoting innovative entrepreneurship and to entrepreneurs and investors seeking to establish and support innovative ventures.

Multiteam systems as integrated networks for engaging ambidexterity as dynamic capabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin P. Dean
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Task Demands ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Integrated Networks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Near Term

PurposeThis inquiry aims to determine the features and mechanisms that specially enable a multiteam system (MTS) to develop ambidexterity that can deal effectively with rapid changes in dynamic environments. The MTS is an emerging organizational unit comprised of tightly integrated networks of teams that may originate from one or more firms. The inquiry also considered how an MTS can engage those features and mechanisms to maximize ambidexterity as dynamic capabilities for increased innovation and long-term adaptation under complex, volatile conditions.Design/methodology/approachThis conceptual inquiry integrates the emerging research on MTSs with theory and studies relating to ambidexterity and dynamic capabilities. This inquiry focuses on the attributes and linkages that specially characterize an MTS. It analyzes these to determine the key mechanisms and interactions enabling and engaging ambidexterity at MTS unit level.FindingsMTSs can engage powerful mechanisms for ambidexterity functioning as dynamic capabilities at meso-organizational level. The attributes and linkages that distinguish an MTS from other units enable it to deal effectively and efficiently with near-term task demands by simultaneously balancing the essential tasks of exploration and exploitation, and by being able to rapidly adapt by reconfiguring taskwork and reallocating resources as required for sustainable innovation and long-term success within a dynamic environment.Practical implicationsThis inquiry provides valuable insights for designing MTSs that are equipped with selected teams, flexible memberships, specialized skills and permeable interfaces. Autonomy for an MTS allows the unit to span internal and external organizational boundaries to gain access to new discoveries and to exchange information and material resources for increased innovation. Ambidexterity as dynamic capabilities facilitates exploitation of current resources by efficiently reconfiguring taskwork and reallocating materials for adaptation and competitive advantage.Originality/valueThis inquiry appears to represent the most integrative effort to examine the underexplored potential of MTSs for developing and engaging ambidexterity functioning as dynamic capabilities. The inquiry appears to be a first effort at articulating a concept of MTS ambidexterity distinct from organizational ambidexterity. The analysis synthesizes a systems model that guides organizational leaders and opens new opportunities for future research.

Knowledge Worker Profile

2012 ◽  
pp. 102-118
Author(s):  
Gulgun Kayakutlu
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
Skill Requirements ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Right ◽  
Different Levels

One of the major reasons for economic crisis of 2008-2009 is determined as value delivery. Major resource of value creation is the knowledge worker who works at different levels of an organisation. This study analyses knowledge worker studies in diverse disciplines, in order to determine the requests. The goal of the study is to propose a framework to clarify the skill requirements by integrating the requests at operational, team, organisational and inter-organisational levels with drivers provided by educating, attracting, motivating and retaining strategies. The framework facilitates employing the right employee for the right post while balancing the requests and the performance measures. This new vision will be beneficial for managers, human resource experts, and educators.

The Business Value of E-Collaboration

2010 ◽  
pp. 144-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lior Fink
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Business Value ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Collaborative Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Collaborative Processes ◽  
The Individual

This article presents a conceptual framework of the business value of e-collaboration. In the past decade, firms have increasingly implemented collaborative technologies to support business activities, and investments in collaborative technologies have taken an increasing share of firms’ e-business investments. Presumably, such investments have been motivated by the notion that the implementation of collaborative technologies has business value. While research has repeatedly demonstrated the individual- and group-level impacts of collaborative technologies, it has rarely addressed their impacts at the organizational level and demonstrated their business value. In this article, I draw on three strategic management frameworks – the resource-based view of the firm, the knowledge-based view of the firm, and the dynamic capabilities perspective – to describe how specialized knowledge assets can be integrated through collaborative processes to create and sustain a competitive advantage. I then use this conceptualization as a platform for defining the organizational roles of collaborative technologies and the potential impact of each role on organizational performance. The main objective of this article is to provide a conceptual framework for researchers and practitioners who are interested in investigating and understanding the organizational impacts of collaborative technologies.

scholarly journals Measurement of the Psychosocial Work Environment in Spanish: Validation of the Psychosocial Factors Questionnaire 75 (PSF-Q75) to Capture Demands and Resources at Different Levels of Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector P. Madrid ◽  
Cristian A. Vasquez ◽  
Malcolm Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Psychosocial Factors ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Psychosocial Work Environment ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Psychosocial Work ◽  
Spanish Validation ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Different Levels

The psychological work environment is composed of both stressful and motivational work conditions at different levels of analysis. However, most relevant theory and research lack an integrative conceptualization and appropriate instrumentation to account for this work context structure. These limitations are particularly present in non-mainstream populations, such as the Spanish community of researchers and practitioners. In this study, based on the job demands–resources model, we present an updated conceptualization in which stressful and motivational psychosocial factors are integrated and defined at the job, the group, and the organizational level of analysis into a single conceptualization. Furthermore, derived from this conceptualization, we present a study of the development and validation of a questionnaire to account for the psychosocial work environment in Spanish, labeled Psychosocial Factors Questionnaire 75 (PSF-Q75), which provides measures for 23 different psychosocial factors. The results of this study supported the questionnaire’s construct, convergent, divergent, and predictive validity, together with its reliability. Thus, this conceptualization and questionnaire provides researchers and partitioners with a more comprehensive approach to the assessment of the psychosocial work environment and promises benefits for interventions in the workplace.

The impact of cognitive and behavioral factors on the export performance: a dynamic capabilities perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Wójcik ◽  
Mariola Ciszewska-Mlinarič
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Exporting Firms ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Mind Set

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how individual-level cognitive and organizational-level behavioral factors influence the level of firms’ export performance as firms adapt to the challenges of foreign expansion. Design/methodology/approach Based on the literature on dynamic capabilities (DCs) and international business, the study introduces a multi-level model of DC to internationalize and test it empirically on a sample of 93 Polish exporting firms using structural equation modeling. Findings The results show a strong and positive impact of the “strategy as stretch” managerial mind-set on two behavioral elements, namely, business modeling and partnering capability. Global mind-set has a strong and positive impact on business modeling and learning about foreign markets and a negative but insignificant effect on partnering capability. Only two of the three behavioral elements of the conceptualized DC have significant and positive impacts on export performance. In contrast to the expectations, the direct path coefficient from learning about foreign markets to export performance was found to be positive but insignificant. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature by offering a coherent, multi-level framework of DCs. The study goes beyond previous conceptualizations of DCs and considers various individual-level cognitive and organizational-level behavioral elements of DC for the internationalization of exporting firms. In particular, this study shows the interplay between them and their combined impact on export performance.

Aligning management model and business model in the management innovation perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Basile ◽  
Rosario Faraci
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Management Innovation ◽  
Content Type

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present some evidence on the role of management models in the implementation or in the transformation of the business models, highlighting the pivotal role of managerial dynamic capabilities. The analysis provides relevant lines of managerial action both strategic and operational levels. Design/methodology/approach – An innovative conceptual analysis is proposed. Managerial dynamic capabilities play a central role in the coupled link between management model and business model at the organizational level. Findings – The authors propose a highly usable and generalizable conceptual model for management practices, strategic planning and operational assessment. Originality/value – This paper investigates a new emerging research stream of management innovation theory. The research presents a new and innovative conceptual analysis of management model and business model alignment. This theme has not been explored in prior researches and represents an experiment to pair the management model and the business model evidence.

scholarly journals Dynamic capabilities, value creation and value capture: Evidence from SMEs under Covid-19 lockdown in Poland

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252423
Author(s):  
Wojciech Dyduch ◽  
Paweł Chudziński ◽  
Szymon Cyfert ◽  
Maciej Zastempowski
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Black Swan ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
Business Survival ◽  
First Order ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
And Performance

Dynamic capabilities, resulting from activities that allow conscious and skillful modification of a firm’s strategic potential, are seen as one of the key drivers of a firm’s value creation, competitive advantage and above-average performance in changing environments. However, little is known about how dynamic capabilities can shape business survival and performance during crises. The research objective of this paper is twofold. First, through a literature review, we seek to identify which first-order dynamic capabilities–managerial decisions under uncertainty—are vital for rapid response to a crisis. Second, we present the results of research carried out among 151 small and medium-sized companies in Poland immediately after the beginning of the economic lockdown (April 2020). The survey that we developed identifies which dynamic capabilities were essential for businesses to survive during this unexpected black swan event. We also present dependence and regression analyses showing the links between the identified dynamic capabilities and value creation, understood as retaining employees and production levels, as well as value capture, understood as maintaining cash flow and current revenues.

scholarly journals A Model for the Competitiveness Development of SMEs: from Dynamic Capabilities Perspective & International Entrepreneurship Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 25-48
Author(s):  
Jaleh Farzaneh Hassanzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
International Entrepreneurship ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Food Industries ◽  
Entrepreneurship Theory ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities Perspective

In this study, the competitiveness development model of food SMEs in entrepreneurial market has been developed. Dynamic capabilities perspective and international entrepreneurship theory were used to theorize. The present study is one of the few studies carried out to find a model for developing the competitiveness of SMEs from the dynamic capabilities perspective. Twenty food-industries managers and experts in food sector were interviewed. The systematic approach presented by Strauss and Corbin (1998) was used to analyze the interviews. The competitiveness development model consists of the causal conditions, the intervening conditions, the contextual conditions, the export strategies of food exporting SMEs and the consequences. The model identifies dynamic capabilities that lead to competitiveness and suggest the path to building such capabilities. Implications of findings are discussed at organizational-level and institutional-level.

scholarly journals A Proposal for an Intangible Resources Management System at the Organizational Level

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Stan ◽  
Camelia Oprean-Stan ◽  
Antonio Pele
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Organization Level ◽  
Implementing Strategies ◽  
Three Phases

Abstract The intangible resources management (IRM) is a key area within organizations, not only in terms of theory, but also in practice. However, reality shows that organizations face unexpected challenges in developing and implementing strategies and processes of intangible resources management. This article seeks to contribute to the improvement of IRM at the organization level by building a model that describes the process followed by organizations seeking to implement an intangible resources management system. Our study emphasizes the need of three phases: the identification of critical intangible resources for creating value; the measurement of these resources through a set of indicators and, finally, the monitoring of the resources and intangible activities. However, the management, monitoring and reporting on intangible resources is very idiosyncratic and unique for each organization; there is not a universal recipe, each organization should develop its own process.

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