Organizational Factors of Innovativeness in Serbian Enterprises

Abstract This paper analyses correlations between several organizational characteristics and product/process innovations in enterprises in Serbia. We used the World Bank Enterprise Survey data on 339 small, medium, and large companies from various industries. Many of the factors analysed in this study are consistent with theoretical conclusions in the literature on this topic and relate to organizational maturity. Also, factors such as the size of the company and the industry to which it belongs were analysed. For correlations testing, the Chi-square correlation coefficient and the Cramer’s V test were used. The analysis revealed correlations between innovativeness and many organizational characteristics. However, in some cases, contrary to theoretical claims, correlations were not confirmed. We found that the introduction of new products and/or processes in the company is influenced by business strategy, production targets, number of performance indicators monitored, establishment of quality management system, formal training programs for company’s full-time employees, ease of achieving the company’s production targets, level of awareness of management and employees about the company’s production targets, spending on research and development activities within the company, and acquisition of external knowledge, way of promoting non-managers in a company, time frame of the company’s production targets, company’s size and main market.

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THE USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN DISTANCE, PART-TIME AND FULL-TIME COURSES

RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series Psychology Pedagogics Education ◽

10.28995/2073-6398-2020-3-41-50 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 41-50

Author(s):

Almaziya G. Kataeva ◽

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Sergei D. Kataev ◽

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Professional Competence ◽

Time Frame ◽

Full Time ◽

Internet Resources ◽

Modern Development ◽

Grammatical Skills ◽

Part Time ◽

Time Courses

The modern development of society determines the forms and content of the process of teaching foreign languages. The quantity and quality of information in the field of mastering a foreign language is constantly growing as a means of sociocultural, linguistic and cultural and professional development of an individual. A foreign language is currently considered as an integral part of intercultural communication in various fields of objective reality and the development of a culture of interethnic communication. In the process of teaching a foreign language, technologies are becoming increasingly important which makes it possible to achieve the required level of communicative competence in speaking and writing in a shorter time frame and to recreate a virtual spatial temporal communication environment with native speakers. In this regard, the form of distance learning can be more and more prospective, being psychologically more comfortable for students and teachers; many of its elements can be integrated into other forms of training. The article exposes certain information technologies, the use of which increases the effectiveness of teaching a foreign language in distance, part-time and full-time courses. On the example of specific interactive multimedia Internet resources in the field of learning the German language, the urgent importance of using computerized teaching methods for acquiring and enhancing pronunciation, lexical and grammatical skills and knowledge with the aim of forming linguistic and cultural and professional competence of students is emphasized. At the same time, the article highlights importance of non-verbal forms of communication for achieving the desired effect of verbal communication, while relying on relevant audiovisual Internet resources.

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Russia-Africa Business Dialogue at SPIEF 2021: Trends, Problems and Prospects for Russian-African Cooperation

Азия и Африка сегодня ◽

10.31857/s032150750015932-7 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 5

Author(s):

Irina Abramova

Keyword(s):

Development Strategy ◽

Business Strategy ◽

Full Time ◽

Digital Products ◽

Investment Projects ◽

New Development ◽

Full Capacity ◽

Security Infrastructure ◽

Science And Education ◽

Main Thing

More than a year and a half has passed since the first Summit and the Russia-Africa Economic Forum. The crisis of “Western-style” globalization, accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, has adjusted the formation of the Russian business strategy in the African direction. The most important areas of Russian-African cooperation in the near future are healthcare, ensuring food security, infrastructure projects, including digitalization, education and science. With what results will Russia and Africa approach the next Summit, planned for 2022? Which business strategy will meet both Russian and African interests? What Russian investment projects are already being implemented on the African continent? How are the new mechanism and tools of the Russian-African partnership formed? These and other issues on the Russian-African agenda were discussed at the Russia-Africa business dialogue, which was held on June 3, 2021 as part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. This was the first major Russian African event in full-time format after the historic Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum, which was successfully held in Sochi on October 23-24, 2019. The participants in the discussion concluded that Africa needs Russia to achieve the ambitious goals of the Agenda 2063, but Russia also needs Africa to implement the new development strategy of the Russian Federation, which focuses on increasing non-resource exports and technological breakthrough. The African fast-growing market, formed by the youngest population in the world, is showing an increased demand for modern Russian goods and technologies, primarily in such areas as healthcare, agriculture, infrastructure, resource development, and digital products. To intensify cooperation, it is necessary to use the entire set of instruments of public-private partnership, to utilize the information resource at full capacity, and to develop cooperation in the field of science and education. The main thing for us now is to bring our cooperation, including in the economic sphere, to a fundamentally new level that meets the interests of our peoples. Both Russia and Africa have a lot to learn from each other, and our economic strategies can be successfully implemented if we combine our efforts.

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Quality Management Systems Implementation Compared With Organizational Maturity in Hospital

Global Journal of Health Science ◽

10.5539/gjhs.v8n3p174 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 174 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tayebeh Moradi ◽

Mehdi Jafari ◽

Mohammad Reza Maleki ◽

Seyran Naghdi ◽

Hesam Ghiasvand

Keyword(s):

Quality Management ◽

Quality Management System ◽

Management Systems ◽

P Value ◽

Maturity Model ◽

Quality Management Systems ◽

Systems Implementation ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Organizational Maturity ◽

Improvement Programs

BACKGROUND: A quality management system can provide a framework for continuous improvement in order to increase the probability of customers and other stakeholders’ satisfaction. The test maturity model helps organizations to assess the degree of maturity in implementing effective and sustained quality management systems; plan based on the current realities of the organization and prioritize their improvement programs. OBJECTIVES: We aim to investigate and compare the level of organizational maturity in hospitals with the status of quality management systems implementation. MATERIALS & METHODS: This analytical cross sectional study was conducted among hospital administrators and quality experts working in hospitals with over 200 beds located in Tehran. In the first step, 32 hospitals were selected and then 96 employees working in the selected hospitals were studied. The data were gathered using the implementation checklist of quality management systems and the organization maturity questionnaire derived from ISO 10014. The content validity was calculated using Lawshe method and the reliability was estimated using test - retest method and calculation of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data using SPSS 18 software. RESULTS: According to the table, the mean score of organizational maturity among hospitals in the first stage of quality management systems implementation was equal to those in the third stage and hypothesis was rejected (p-value = 0.093). In general, there is no significant difference in the organizational maturity between the first and third level hospitals (in terms of implementation of quality management systems). CONCLUSIONS: Overall, the findings of the study show that there is no significant difference in the organizational maturity between the hospitals in different levels of the quality management systems implementation and in fact, the maturity of the organizations cannot be attributed to the implementation of such systems. As a result, hospitals should make changes in the quantity and quality of quality management systems in an effort to increase organizational maturity, whereby they improve the hospital efficiency and productivity.

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BUSINESS STRATEGY AND INNOVATIVE PRACTICES ON SERVICES INDUSTRY IN INDONESIA SETTING

Business and Entrepreneurial Review ◽

10.25105/ber.v10i1.17 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Achmad Hidayat Sutawidjaya

Keyword(s):

Business Strategy ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

Organizational Factors ◽

Strong Relationship ◽

Strategic Orientation ◽

Strategy Type ◽

Strategic Orientations ◽

Management Of Innovation ◽

Services Industry ◽

Using Data

This study explores how firms on services industry (cellular company) in indonesia setting with different strategic orientations manage innovative practices. Specifically, we examine differences in how firms with contrasting strategic orientations view the environmental and organizational factors that influence their management of innovation. This study contributes to the integration of the strategic management and innovation perspective by empirical examining how innovative practices vary among firms on services industry in indonesia setting with different strategic orientation, thereby achieving tighter integration between these two important theoretical perspective. In doing this research, we begin to address some important questions which are likely to be crucial interest to both scholars and practicing managers. This study proceeds as follows, we first established a foundation for our study by examining the literatures on strategy and innovation. We then develop hypotheses on relationship between a firm’s strategy type and its management of innovation (innovative practice, product innovation), external advantage, internal advantage. We the test hypotheses using data from 3 firms of cellular company (XL, Satelindo, Telkomsel) with sample 87 Manager randomly. A discussion of the empirical results and conclusion there is strong relationship between a firm’s strategy type and its management of innovation on services industry (cellular company) in indonesia setting

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Assessment of Extension Services Delivery to Fish Farmers in South Western Nigeria

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH ◽

10.24297/jssr.v12i1.7193 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 2596-2607

Author(s):

Apata O. M. O. M. ◽

Toluwase S. O. W ◽

Awoyemi A. O.

Keyword(s):

Formal Education ◽

Information Access ◽

Fish Farming ◽

Sampling Procedure ◽

Extension Agents ◽

Full Time ◽

Chi Square ◽

Services Delivery ◽

Crucial Information ◽

Chi Square Analysis

Inability of fish farmers in Nigeria to produce at a rate that can meet the population demand has been linked to lack of access to crucial information on improved fish farming technique. Information is an indispensable factor in fish farming and it is the basis of extension service delivery. This study was designed to describe demographic characteristic of fish farmers, identify sources of various information to fish farmers and identify information access constraints faced by farmers. Purposive sampling procedure was used to select 2 States and a total of 160 respondents were selected for the study. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation and Chi-Square (X2) was used for inferential statistics. Result revealed that mean age was 44.8 years, 77.5% were male, only 7.5% have no formal education and 98.1% were full time fish farmers. About 25.0% received information frequently, 50.6% rarely while 24.4% never received information from extension agents. Inadequate of extension contact was identified by 88.8% of the respondents as information access constraint. Chi-Square analysis showed significant relationship (X2 = 13.426, p = 0.016) between source of information and utilization of information.

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Exploring the Nature of Business Strategy Change for Mental Health Practices in the Age of COVID-19

International Journal of Business Strategy and Automation ◽

10.4018/ijbsa.20211001.oa1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

De Andra Judge ◽

Darrell Norman Burrell

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Organizational Development ◽

Business Strategy ◽

Practice Change ◽

Individual Therapy ◽

Group Practice ◽

Full Time ◽

Medical Group ◽

Medical Group Practice ◽

Mental Health Practices

The Convergence Lab (TCL), a mental health medical group practice that provides group and individual therapy for its adult clients. TCL is a 5-year old organization with five (5) clinicians inclusive of and one (1) full-time office manager and 5 clinicians are full time staff. As a result of COVID-19, TCL has experienced an 75% decrease in revenue since patients are unable to complete their appointments in person. The paper examines how one mental health medical group practice used a management consultant to help the practice change its business strategy to respond to COVID-induced business challenges using automation and technology driven strategic approaches. This inquiry uses organizational development action research intervention and a content analysis of the literature to create real-world solutions that will have value to scholar practitioners that are doing applied research to help similar organizations that are challenged to respond to the global pandemic.

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Relación entre estrategias de negocios y características organizacionales con los tipos de innovación: aplicación en empresas de servicios

Revista Perspectiva Empresarial ◽

10.16967/23898186.595 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 5-19

Author(s):

Jhony Ostos Mariño ◽

Arturo Rodolfo Saenz Arteaga ◽

Kerstin Bremser

Keyword(s):

Significant Relationship ◽

Business Strategy ◽

The Other ◽

Organizational Characteristics ◽

Business Strategies ◽

Technical Innovation ◽

Service Companies ◽

Important Relationship ◽

Innovation Practices ◽

Administrative Innovations

Various authors maintain that innovation practices depend on business strategies, therefore companies must configure an organizational structure that facilitates the coordination of tasks and allows objectives to be reached. In a sample of 203 service companies, an analysis was carried out of the influence of business strategies and organizational characteristics on technical innovation and administrative innovation. The results indicate that there is an important relationship between the business strategy and the technical and administrative innovations. On the other hand, organizational characteristics only had a significant relationship with technical innovation but not with the administrative innovation.

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Abstract 301: Identifying Critical Care Unit Organizational Factors That Impact Cardiac Arrest Incidence and Outcomes: A Report From the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium

Circulation ◽

10.1161/circ.140.suppl_2.301 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 140 (Suppl_2) ◽

Author(s):

Javier J Lasa ◽

Jeffrey A Alten ◽

Mousumi Banerjee ◽

Wenying Zhang ◽

Kurt Schumacher ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cardiac Arrest ◽

Critical Care ◽

Critical Care Unit ◽

Organizational Factors ◽

Full Time ◽

Provider Education ◽

Multinomial Regression ◽

Clinical Registry ◽

The Impact ◽

Cardiac Critical Care

Introduction: Patient factors leading to cardiac arrest (CA) in the pediatric cardiac critical care unit (CICU) are well understood, but may be unmodifiable. Our understanding of the impact of CICU organizational factors (OFs) such as staffing models, health care provider education, and CICU bed management is limited. The association between these potentially modifiable CICU OFs on CA prevention and rescue outcomes is unknown. Hypothesis: CICU OFs associate with CA prevention and rescue. Methods: Retrospective analysis of Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) clinical registry including data for all patients admitted to CICUs from August 2014 to March 2019. Prevention was defined as the prevalence of subjects not suffering CA. Rescue was defined as survival after CA. CICU OFs were captured via questionnaire distributed to PC4 participants in 2017 (100% response). Stratified, multivariable regression was used to evaluate associations between OFs and outcome in medical and surgical admission subgroups: competing time-to-events framework (to assess prevention) and multinomial regression (to assess rescue), accounting for clustering of patients within hospitals. Results: We analyzed 54,521 CICU admissions (59% surgical, 41% medical) from 29 hospitals with 1398 CA events (2.5%). We studied 12 OFs that varied across centers after accounting for collinearity. For both surgical and medical admissions, lower average daily occupancy (<80%) was associated with better arrest prevention for all admissions, and better rescue in the surgical cohort. Increased proportion of nurses with >2 years experience, increased proportion of nurses with critical care certification, % of full-time intensivists, % of intensivists with critical care training, dedicated respiratory therapists, quality/safety resources, and annual CICU admission volume were not associated with improved prevention or rescue. Conclusion: Our multi-institutional analysis suggests that lower average CICU occupancy was the only consistent OF evaluated that was associated with CA prevention and rescue. CICUs that have average daily occupancy >80% may need specific strategies to mitigate the risks of CA.

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A Survey of Kansas Physicians' Perceptions of Physician Assistant Education and Qualifications

Kansas Journal of Medicine ◽

10.17161/kjm.v8i1.11512 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 18-25

Author(s):

Gina R Brown ◽

LaDonna S Hale ◽

Molly C Britz ◽

Mindy J Schrader ◽

Sedera L Sholtz ◽

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Keyword(s):

Primary Care ◽

Primary Care Physicians ◽

Physician Assistant ◽

Healthcare Team ◽

Full Time ◽

Patient Centered ◽

Chi Square ◽

Grade Point ◽

Credit Hours ◽

Regulatory Standards

BACKGROUND: Effective physician-physician assistant (PA) teams improve patient access and satisfaction, and increase productivity and revenue while reducing physician workload. This survey assessed perceptions of Kansas primary care physicians regarding educational requirements and qualifications of PAs, professional and legal regulations, and the most important skills and competencies for PAs to possess. Understanding these perceptions may lead to improved communication and refined expectations of physician-physician assistant teams, thereby increasing their utilization and effectiveness. METHODS: A 20-question survey was emailed to all 1,551 primary care physicians registered with the Kansas Board of Healing Arts in 2012. Descriptive data were reported as frequencies; comparisons between groups were analyzed using Chi-square. RESULTS: The response rate was 9.2% (n = 143). Physicians were highly accurate regarding the program’s generalist/primary care educational model and moderately accurate regarding the degree awarded, average pre-program grade point average, lock-step full-time curriculum, weeks of clinical rotations, recertification and continuing medical education hours, and Medicare PA fee schedule. Physicians had low accuracy regarding program and pharmacology credit hours, strict dismissal policy, pre-program healthcare experience, and co-signatory regulations. Physicians with PA supervisory experience had higher knowledge than those without (p = 0.001). Physicians most commonly selected history taking and performing physical exam as the most important skill (49%) and providing patient care that is patient-centered, efficient, and equitable as the most important competency (42%). CONCLUSIONS: Physicians often underestimated the average PA applicant qualifications, program rigor and intensity, professional regulatory standards, and co-signatory requirements. Correcting misperceptions and improving understanding of which PA skills and competencies are most valued by physicians may optimize PAs as part of the healthcare team.

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Organizational dynamics: exploring the factors affecting knowledge sharing behavior

Kybernetes ◽

10.1108/k-04-2019-0300 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 165-181 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nóra Obermayer ◽

Viktoria Erika Toth

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Organizational Factors ◽

Organizational Characteristics ◽

Organizational Dynamics ◽

Quantitative Methodology ◽

Data Set ◽

Content Type ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Effective Manner ◽

The Individual

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the individual and organizational factors that influence knowledge sharing (KS) behavior within Hungarian organizations. Design/methodology/approach The data were obtained from 238 completed questionnaires collected via the LimeSurvey system. The analysis is based on applied quantitative methodology, both descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The research investigated the relationships between individual and organizational characteristics and the KS behavior at individual and global levels. Findings Among individual factors, significant relationships have been identified regarding the generation and position of individuals, and KS behavior, while gender and education do not seem to play a significant role. With respect to organizational factors, the size of the organization and the tenure of individuals are found to be significant. Research limitations/implications The results of the analysis are limited because the data set was not large enough to investigate inter- and intra-industry variability. Practical implications The outcome of this research can support the design of managerial and organizational processes and incentives that will potentially facilitate KS in a more efficient and effective manner. Such improved KS is likely to improve the overall performance of knowledge-intensive organizations. Originality/value The original value of this research is that individual and organizational characteristics have been identified that influence KS behavior. The study focuses on a single country, Hungary, and provides relevant insight into the organizational dynamics of a specific national context.

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