Formalisation and flexibilisation in organisations – Dynamic and selective approaches in corporate innovation processes

Mattes, Jannika

doi:10.1016/j.emj.2013.09.002

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“…The duality view is that stability and adaptability are not separable and conflicting, but are interdependent [52]. Duality denotes the two-fold character of an object of study without separation [52,53], and it provides a common platform for addressing diverse issues such as stability and change [52], efficiency and flexibility [46,49,50], exploitation and exploration [45,54], and formalization and flexibilisation [55]. From the duality view [52,56], this paper proposes stability and adaptability as interdependent and mutually enabling, rather than separate and opposite.…”

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Innovation Resilience: A New Approach for Managing Uncertainties Concerned with Sustainable Innovation

Tian

Wei

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Sustainability

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Sustainable innovation is more complex than conventional, market-driven innovation, because companies have to consider a wide range of uncertainties concerned with the environment, society, and economics. This literature review shows that resilience is the prevailing way of thinking in the area of sustainability studies, and the main contribution of resilience to sustainability is how to deal with uncertainties. However, there seems to be a scarcity in the current literature on the conceptualization of resilience in the context of innovation. From the duality view, this paper proposes a new concept of innovation resilience based on two dimensions, stability and adaptability, which contribute to maintaining a high level of innovation efficiency, while at the same time adapting to change. The proposed innovation resilience concept attempts to provide an integration of divergent research streams—innovation management, organizational resilience, and sustainability management theory. We develop a conceptual framework that consists of a set of indicators involving the two dimensions by using multiple case studies, upon which future empirical studies can be based.

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Section: The Relationship Between Stability and Adaptabilitymentioning

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“…Stability-oriented and adaptability-oriented activities are complementary rather than contradictory [52,55]. Conventional management activities are similar to a sports teams' home advantage, where the company finds it easy to obtain short-term success.…”

Section: Innovation Resilience From the Duality Viewmentioning

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Innovation Resilience: A New Approach for Managing Uncertainties Concerned with Sustainable Innovation

Tian

Wei

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Sustainability

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“…Formalization, which is inevitable for many kinds of work, is a relevant factor to consider in the context of POS. However, managers may implement such formal rules and procedures in a flexible way, as suggested by Mattes (2014). Thus, during the strategy implementation stage of strategic management process, formalized structure of the organization may be constructed by taking a controlled degree of flexibility into consideration.…”

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“…Employees working in airline organizations may benefit from written rules and procedures governing their activities since their role conflict and ambiguity will be decreased by the help of formalized structures. Further, as discussed by Mattes (2014), formalization may include some degree of flexibilization. Thus, such rules and process may not limit employee's freedom of action, instead, they can be a resource for proactively designing the employee activities in organization.…”

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Moderating Role Of Trust On Relationship Between Formalization And Perceived Organizational Support

Bitmiş¹

2017

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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As perceived organizational support (POS) has been found to have a strong impact on some important organizational outcomes such as performance, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction, a bundle of research has recently been tried to shed light on discovering the antecedents of POS. Thus, this study attempts to identify the effect of formalization, as one of the important dimension of organizational structure, on POS by evaluating the moderating role of trust in organization. The survey of this study is conducted on 343 administrative support staff, who works for airline industry. In order to understand the moderating effect of trust between formalization and POS, hierarchical moderated regression analysis has been employed. The results reveal that formalization positively and significantly affects perceived organizational support, while trust in organization moderates this relationship. More specifically, this relationship will be stronger when trust in organization is high. In other words, the relationship between formalization and POS will be weaker when trust in organization is low. Furthermore, the results are discussed and some suggestions for future research are proposed.

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Strukturelle Grundlagen der organisatorischen Projektierung

Schütz¹

2022

Projektmanagement

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Formalisation and flexibilisation in organisations – Dynamic and selective approaches in corporate innovation processes

Cited by 21 publications

References 26 publications

Innovation Resilience: A New Approach for Managing Uncertainties Concerned with Sustainable Innovation

Innovation Resilience: A New Approach for Managing Uncertainties Concerned with Sustainable Innovation

Moderating Role Of Trust On Relationship Between Formalization And Perceived Organizational Support

Strukturelle Grundlagen der organisatorischen Projektierung

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