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Determinants, Moderators And Consequences Of Organizational Interaction Orientation, Christian Hoops, Michael Bücker Jan 2013

Determinants, Moderators And Consequences Of Organizational Interaction Orientation, Christian Hoops, Michael Bücker

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation JEMI

Interaction orientation reflects the ability of a company to interact with the individual customer and to gather information from successful interactions. Four dimensions of interaction orientation are identified in the literature: customer concept, interaction response capacity, customer empowerment and customer value management (Ramani and Kumar, 2008). This study shows that indeed a fifth dimension of interaction orientation exists and investigates the determinants, moderators and consequences of this construct. The first notable finding is that B2B companies exhibit a greater degree of interaction orientation than B2C firms. Ramani and Kumar hypothesized that in their study. We show that there are B2C …


Institutional Sources Of Organizational Culture In Major Law Firms, Pamela S. Tolbert Jun 2011

Institutional Sources Of Organizational Culture In Major Law Firms, Pamela S. Tolbert

Pamela S Tolbert

[Excerpt] A large body of research has been generated within the last few years on the forms and functions of organizational culture and on the consequences of culture for organizational control and effectiveness. Surprisingly little attention has been given, however, to the sources of organizational culture and, in particular, to the features of organizations that affect its maintenance and transmission. This chapter uses an institutionalization perspective to explore these issues.