Organisational Flexibility and Competitiveness

Nandakumar, M.K.; Jharkharia, Sanjay; As, Nair

doi:10.1007/978-81-322-1668-1

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“…In terms of strategy, a flexible firm's core logic (Deming, 1982;Englehardt & Simmons, 2002;Nandakumar et al, 2014;Vecchiato, 2015;Vlados, 2004) is of evolutionary conception, which views the business environment as a dynamic whole. Business planning at this level considers and, at the same time, composes various social and economic dimensions as they transform over time.…”

Section: "Flexible" Firmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship and Crisis in Greece From a neo-Schumpeterian Perspective: A Suggestion to Stimulate the Development Process at the Local Level

Vlados¹,

Koronis²,

Chatzinikolaou³

2021

RWE

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In economies where most firms are family-owned, there is a risk of poor management and problematic strategic and technological comprehension. Multiple cases prove the existence of a series of socio-economic pathologies in such firms that undermine an economy’s ability to overcome economic crises through innovative and entrepreneurial thinking and adaptability. The paper aims to present the relationship between entrepreneurship and “development and crisis” from the perspective of Greece’s current socio-economic crisis. It first analyzes the neo-Schumpeterian entrepreneurship theory and the structures that allow innovative and competitive models to appear and then links this context with Greece’s case. The “Stra.Tech.Man” theoretical framework of physiological types of entrepreneurship is suggested as the analytical base for elaborating a local development policy instrument for economies where such less competitive businesses prevail.

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Section: "Flexible" Firmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship and Crisis in Greece From a neo-Schumpeterian Perspective: A Suggestion to Stimulate the Development Process at the Local Level

Vlados¹,

Koronis²,

Chatzinikolaou³

2021

RWE

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“…Current research stated organizational flexibility as the capability of a firm to effectively respond and capacity to change the policies, practices or procedures quickly to adapt to the diverse changing demands of the environment. Additionally, the literature has suggested that for the sake of responding to internal and external changes, organizations need to develop SF, STF and OPF (Nandakumar et al , 2014; Volberda, 1996). Dimensions of flexibility presented by Volberda (1996) are used in this study due to its widely accepted conceptualization and contextual relevance.…”

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“…Increasing uncertainty in the business environment makes it more important to build a flexible system to survive (Nandakumar et al, 2014). The ability to modify business processes and allocate resources according to the needs of organizations in changing business environments is a stated definition of organizational flexibility (Mart ınez-S anchez et al, 2009).…”

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“…The ability to modify business processes and allocate resources according to the needs of organizations in changing business environments is a stated definition of organizational flexibility (Mart ınez-S anchez et al, 2009). Organizational flexibility as the creational and persuasive organizational ability (Volberda, 1996) works to overcome environmental incertitudes and enhances organizational competitiveness (Nandakumar et al, 2014). A flexible organization can efficiently study and react to any variation in the external and internal environment, which helps to improve the performance by introducing innovation to be a market leader (Cing€ oz and Akdo gan, 2013;Mart ınez-S anchez et al, 2009).…”

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Organizational flexibility and project portfolio performance: the roles of innovation, absorptive capacity and environmental dynamism

Saeed

Jiao

Zahid³

et al. 2020

IJMPB

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PurposeThe aim of the current study is to empirically assess the effects of organizational flexibility on project portfolio (PP) performance, with the mediating role of innovation and moderating effects of environmental dynamism (ED) and absorptive capability (AC).Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 173 manufacturing firms and analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) with the help of a partial least squares (PLS) approach.FindingsResults show that innovation partially mediates the relationship between organizational flexibility and PP performance. Furthermore, the moderating effect of ED between organizational flexibility and innovation was analyzed. Additionally, AC also observed as a moderator between innovation and PP performance.Originality/valueBased on the resource-based view, this study contributes to the literature by addressing the roles of innovation, ED and AC in the relationship between organizational flexibility and PP performance. Implications for managers also discussed in the end; for example, to be more competitive, they should incorporate flexibility into the firm to encourage innovation. It also emphasizes to select new innovative opportunities that correspondingly have effects on the PP performance.

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Management Conception Challenges in the Post-COVID-19 Era and the Stra.Tech.Man Analysis

Vlados

2022

Organizational Management in Post Pandemic Crisis

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Organisational Flexibility and Competitiveness

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Entrepreneurship and Crisis in Greece From a neo-Schumpeterian Perspective: A Suggestion to Stimulate the Development Process at the Local Level

Entrepreneurship and Crisis in Greece From a neo-Schumpeterian Perspective: A Suggestion to Stimulate the Development Process at the Local Level

Organizational flexibility and project portfolio performance: the roles of innovation, absorptive capacity and environmental dynamism

Management Conception Challenges in the Post-COVID-19 Era and the Stra.Tech.Man Analysis

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