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Purpose This study aims to investigate the causal relationships within an experimental culture of improvisation capability and firm performance, following the logic of “culture-capability-performance” and building on informal institution theory and dynamic capability theory. Design/methodology/approach Data was mainly collected via on-site questionnaires from firm managers, and 196 valid questionnaires were analyzed using structural equation modeling to test the relationship among experimental culture, improvisation capability and firms’ performance. Findings Trust and support had a positive impact on firm spontaneity, while the effect of action promotion and error tolerance was not significant. Action promotion, trust and support demonstrate substantial positive effects on the creativity of a firm. Both dimensions of improvisation capability positively and significantly influence a firm’s performance. Research limitations/implications The research respondents were firm managers. Cross-sectional data were used to analyze the model, which may cause common method variance. The research context was limited to China, and the generalizability of the results needs to be considered. Practical implications Firms can cultivate a culture of trust and support to enhance their spontaneity and improvisation capability. They can encourage cross-departmental communication, empower employees with autonomy in decision-making, provide appropriate resource support for employees’ decisions and use praise and reward incentives to spur further innovation achievements. Originality/value This study addresses the gaps in a firm’s improvisation capability within a Chinese market context by theoretically and empirically examining the role of experimental culture and assessing the relationship among each of the dimensions of improvisation capability in relation to firm performance identified in this study.
This research targeted five community based long-term care facilities in Tainan and the local chiefs of neighborhood; reference materials are the official disaster precaution data and foreign literature review. This research discusses how these long-term care facilities interact with the community network during flood. The goal is to find out a mode which could connect community organizations and community network under Taiwanese social structure. Taiwan has experienced several periods of community development and movements; the civil power is getting strong. However, the interaction and mutual-aid with long-term care facilities needs further establishment and reinforcement.This research takes various research methods, including interview, on-site observations and analysis of literature. The results and literature review have similar findings about long-term care facilities' relationship with community during flood. Although this issue ought to be emphasized and national disaster precaution system has gone deep into villages, care facilities still face many unsolved issues during disaster, such as uncompleted flood insurance, limits of community's mobilization, and the support of government's administrative order to mutual aid between care facilities. This dissertation is the first part of the 3-year research.Society and Gang-Shan Fire Department (Li & Deng, 2012). The photo of these water-soaking elders in the report raise public's attention to the disaster-dealing abilities of long-term care facilities.The major clients of the long-term care facilities are the elderly and the disabled. In the category of disaster management, these people are defined as "the weak of evacuation" (or "disaster-challenged"). This group may include the elderly, the sick, the young, the disabled, and etc. Due to their difference in psychology, physics and health, they might lack judgement, delay in evacuation, or not be able to evacuate on their own. Therefore, they are in high risk of injury during disasters. Since 1970s, under these two conditions -the welfare countries' finance condition got worse and those who were attended in a more humane way, many care facilities transferred from national size to community one (Popple & Stepney, 2011). There's no exception in Taiwan. Small care facilities in community have grown fast these years in Taiwan where aging people are becoming a large number.In 2011, National Fire Agency, ministry of interior, has put "Disaster precaution for the disaster-challenged" into the training courses for rescue workers. Its purpose is to equip those who make plans for the emergency or look after the elderly or the physically-challenged with the skills and knowledge in disaster handling and resilience (Deng, 2010). In Taiwan, care facilities do disaster precaution practice only to follow the order of the local police or fire department. However, long-term care facilities provide services mainly for the elderly and the disabled. These people in disaster managing work are "the weak in evacuation". These two yea...
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