Das Scheitern von Veraenderungsprozessen in Unternehmungen: Probleme und Loesungsansaetze aus betriebswirtschaftstheoretischer Sicht

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Zulieferer am Scheideweg: das strategische Zuliefer-Marketing vor dem Hintergrund des Verdraengungswettbewerbs

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Organizational Culture as the Glue between People and Organization: A Competence-based View on Learning and Competence Building

Is organizational culture a catalyst of competence development? This paper argues it is. The reason for this is that organizational culture fosters the process of learning and competence building and works as a glue between people and the organization they belong to. We employ a most recently developed approach belonging to market process theory, the so-called ‘competence-based theory of the firm’, to explain these causal relationships.organizational culture, competence building, learning, Competence-based Theory of the Firm

The dynamics of SME growth processes and the role of enabling constraints : an evidence-based theoretical framework

Purpose - This paper aims to explain the dynamics of entrepreneurial decisions and actions (D&As) in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth process. The study focuses on the changing portfolio and relationship governance and captures these dynamics by using the concept of "enabling constraints" (ECs). Design/methodology/approach - In-depth, long-term and multiple-case study method was adopted based on six high-growth SMEs. Pattern-matching and alternative template approach formed a basis for developing a research framework, further corroborated and advanced in the empirical study. Findings - The research provides empirical evidence of ECs as entrepreneurial perceptions that both limit (constrain) the range of accessible options and facilitate (enable) new opportunities. This study’s results point to how owner-managers' judgments about growth motives and rationales constrain their choices and how they enable new directions, acknowledging the changing context. Originality/value - This work contributes to the research on SME growth processes by specifying their dynamics in terms of a creative mutual causality. Here, D&As stem from entrepreneurs' perceptions that are affected by the context, with the latter also shaped by prior decisions and actions. This theoretical contribution has been synthesized in the form of a framework of ECs in the SME growth process with related propositions

Die Umsetzung von TQM: Bestandsaufnahme und Implementierungsschwerpunkte aus Marketing-Sicht

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