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New Communication Technologies, Organizational Culture, And The Creation Of Innovative Learning Environments, Denise Scott Dec 1998

New Communication Technologies, Organizational Culture, And The Creation Of Innovative Learning Environments, Denise Scott

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Today's organizations face an economic climate that is globalizing, increasing customer demands for products and services that meet their unique needs and the fast pace of technological developments. Organizations require the effective use of new communication technologies as a means of sharing information and expanding capacity for innovation. The main question for this research is: When new communication technologies are introduced into organizations, how do they work together with existing cultural assumptions to produce an innovative, learning environment within the organization? The research design involves conducting moderately structured interviews with organizational leaders in four diverse organizations: Ingram Book Company, Service …


Managing For Flexibility: A Manufacturing Perspective, Ravi Kathuria Jan 1998

Managing For Flexibility: A Manufacturing Perspective, Ravi Kathuria

Business Faculty Articles and Research

This paper investigates managerial practices that are conducive to the management of flexibility. Using data from manufacturing plants in the United States, this paper identifies managerial practices that manufacturing managers strongly demonstrate in plants that place a high emphasis on flexibility. The results indicate that managers who pursue flexibility, emphatically engage in team building, employee empowerment, and other relationship oriented practices that generate enthusiasm among employees. These practices seemingly motivate workers to deal with the uncertainty and changes, in the form of product mix, customer delivery schedule, capacity adjustments, etc., that characterize manufacturing flexibility. Furthermore, workers are entrusted with the …


Group Decision Support Systems (Gdss) And Influence Modes: A Comparative Field Study Between Gdss Mediated Groups And Non-Gdss Mediated Groups, L. Grant Bridgewater Dec 1997

Group Decision Support Systems (Gdss) And Influence Modes: A Comparative Field Study Between Gdss Mediated Groups And Non-Gdss Mediated Groups, L. Grant Bridgewater

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the effect of Group Decision Support System (GDSS) technology on perceived influence modes. The researcher measured perceived influence modes in two group treatments: GDSS groups and non-GDSS (N-GDSS) mediated groups. Actual groups in both treatments performed judgmental tasks of their own choosing. Group members then completed a survey which measured their perceptions regarding five influence sources: expert influence, influence from legitimate authority, referent influence, reward influence, and coercive influence. The survey also measured the extent to which members perceived an "opportunity to influence" other group members. For each variable measured in both treatment groups, mean scores were …


No. 130 1997 November Nov 1997

No. 130 1997 November

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No. 129 1997 April Apr 1997

No. 129 1997 April

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No. 128 1996 November Nov 1996

No. 128 1996 November

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Interest Domination As A Framework For Exploring Channel Changes In Transitional Economies, Debra Dahab, James W. Gentry, Ravipreet S. Sohi Oct 1996

Interest Domination As A Framework For Exploring Channel Changes In Transitional Economies, Debra Dahab, James W. Gentry, Ravipreet S. Sohi

Department of Marketing: Faculty Publications

Changes in political and economic power can affect channel structures and decisions. Western channel models may not be useful for understanding the process of change in Central and East European transforming economies. This discussion suggests that channels in transforming economies may be controlled by groups or networks of people with mutual interests, a phenomenon the authors call interest domination. The article examines interest domination by managers, Communist cadres, and other party elite in two transforming economies and describes how structural and behavioral components of command economies might be conducive to interest domination of marketing channels. Propositions for explaining the political, …


No. 127 1996 April Apr 1996

No. 127 1996 April

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No. 126 1995 November Nov 1995

No. 126 1995 November

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No. 125 1995 April Apr 1995

No. 125 1995 April

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No. 124 1994 November Nov 1994

No. 124 1994 November

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No. 123 1994 April Apr 1994

No. 123 1994 April

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No. 121 1993 April Apr 1993

No. 121 1993 April

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No. 120 1992 November Nov 1992

No. 120 1992 November

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No. 119 1992 April Apr 1992

No. 119 1992 April

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No. 118 1991 November Nov 1991

No. 118 1991 November

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No. 117 1991 April Apr 1991

No. 117 1991 April

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No. 116 1990 November Nov 1990

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No. 115 1990 April Apr 1990

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No. 114 1989 November Nov 1989

No. 114 1989 November

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An Empirical Test Of Staw And Ross Prescriptions For The Management Of Escalation Of Commitment Behavior In Organizations, Kenneth J. Dunegan, S L. Barton, D Duchon Jul 1989

An Empirical Test Of Staw And Ross Prescriptions For The Management Of Escalation Of Commitment Behavior In Organizations, Kenneth J. Dunegan, S L. Barton, D Duchon

Management And Labor Relations

Tests two major prescriptions of Staw and Ross about the management of escalation behavior in organizations. Since these prescriptions are primarily based on research using students in controlled settings, the efficacy of the prescriptions was tested in the context of a real, functioning organization. The results provide conditional support for separating initial decision responsibility from subsequent responsibility as a means of reducing escalation behavior. However, the findings did not support a reduction of project failure risk as a means of minimizing escalation of commitment to a failing course of action.


No. 113 1989 April Apr 1989

No. 113 1989 April

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No. 112 1988 November Nov 1988

No. 112 1988 November

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No. 111 1988 April Apr 1988

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No. 110 November 1987 Nov 1987

No. 110 November 1987

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No. 109 1987 April Apr 1987

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No. 108 1986 November Nov 1986

No. 108 1986 November

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No. 106 1985 November Nov 1985

No. 106 1985 November

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No. 104 1984 November Nov 1984

No. 104 1984 November

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No. 103 1984 April Apr 1984

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