The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

This article asks about the factors of success and the implications of the quality management according to the ISO 9000 standard on the organisational performance. It comes out from our econometric study based on the data gathered from a sample of Tunisian firms certified or in the course of...

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

Im Fokus des Beitrages steht die Arbeitsregulation in wissensbasierten Unternehmen. Interessenvertretungen werden hier nicht nur damit konfrontiert, dass hochqualifizierte Beschäftigte – Wissensarbeiter/innen – zur Selbstvertretung tendieren, sondern auch mit neuen integrativen Human...

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

All in all, French, Italian and British companies are surpassed technologically more often than not by Swiss, Austrian and German companies. This technological delay does however not show up at the organisational level.

By choosing their organizations, firms trade-off productive efficiency and time spent in implementing innovation. We embed such a productivity/reactivity trade-off in a growth model with creative destruction. We first highlight the specific impact of time in firm competition: in addition to...

Population growth and greater social pressure in relation to sustainability will require greater agricultural production with less environmental impact. This research aims to evaluate the process of technological innovation and integrated systems of sustainable production. The multi-case study...

Population growth and greater social pressure in relation to sustainability will require greater agricultural production with less environmental impact. This research aims to evaluate the process of technological innovation and integrated systems of sustainable production. The multi-case study...

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...