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Long-term R&D activities and especially Collaborative Research (CR) with other firms and with the academy are considered by nature as strategic. Such decisions not only commit resources like other decisions but also set a focus for the R&D units in the firm for the future. A recent research...
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(UM) fit, and two outcomes in an innovative workplace: job satisfaction and innovation. Design/methodology/approach – This … uncertainty. The investigation also found positive effects of high personal UM on innovation and no significant effects for … organization UM on innovation. Enhanced organizational innovation was best accounted for by high person UM cooperating in …
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Executive coaching has seen a real expansion worldwide due to a new approach of management in the age of information. It is an efficiently used method within organizations, with a view to inspiring top managers in implementing and ascertaining changes in the behavior of those around them, in...
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Voluntary turnover has been an enduring topic in organizational management theory and a subject of numerous empirical studies due to its great influence on organizations’ efficiency. Currently the goal was to investigate which employee satisfaction issues relate to turnover intentions and do...
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This paper proposes an analogy between rational biological model and the organizations’ development during their existence. So, organizations’ "birth" or creation are considered the result of genetic algorithms, transformations are identified with changes that aim the adapting to the...
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The evolution of public administration involves, like any ”live organism”, change and development. Along the years there has been felt the need of transition from the traditional model of public administration, known as bureaucratic and over-regulated, to another one much up to date with the...
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This downsizing article represents a succinct review of the scholarly work of researchers studying the multifaceted downsizing phenomenon over the past 30 years. Since Cascio’s (1993) article “Downsizing: What do we know? What have we learned?”, the research has burgeoned across several...
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The European biodiesel industry is currently facing major challenges with governments reducing their fiscal support for biodiesel producers and with rising prices for feedstock. These challenges have a high impact on the profitability and survival of existing investment projects in biodiesel...
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Approach of SMEs development in Romania is based on two category of premises: 7 internal premises, which refers on the Romanian economy and 6 external premises regarding the EU situation and world evolution in last two years. The second part of the paper contains the three coordinates of SMEs...
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One of the most difficult problems faced by the management of all organizations within innovation and change processes …
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