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This paper takes an empirical research into the correlation between human resource management (HRM) practices and manufacturing performance in manufacturing companies in the world providing the universalistic perspective for practitioner and the academia as well. The empirical analysis is based on the data from the 2009 International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS), and factor analysis is to...
Knowledge process is the core process in new product development, and is also an organizational learning process which is affected by learning environment. In this paper, an empirical research was conducted to explore the mechanism and paths of the interaction among learning environment, knowledge process and new product development performance. The findings indicate that the learning environment...
The extent of the successfulness of an organization's information systems would start at the very beginning, even before it is implemented. In other words the success of a system would be determined at the very beginning of its implementation project; from identification of requirements to the final implementation and go live phase. Hence the sequence of activities occurring according to a preplanned...
How does organizational learning affect strategic change? How does strategic change affect organizational performance? How does organizational learning influence organizational performance? Is strategic change a mediator between organizational learning and organizational performance? This article, considering strategic change as a mediator, integrates organizational learning, strategic change and...
The concepts of organizational support (OS), organizational commitment (OC) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) have aroused great interests among scholars since they were introduced. However, most of the research on them is either based on western culture or taking company employees as the research object. There have been insufficient studies on university faculty members. Study on organizational...
The black box between High performance work systems(HPWS) and organizational performance is an important issue in the domain of Human Resource Management. Scholars strive hard to uncover it. After 2007's financial storm, they try to uncover it from the perspective of human resource flexibility which stems from the practices of HPWS and thereafter turns out to be organizational performance through...
With the wanton spread of the global financial turmoil in 2008 ,the majority enterprises in China have been the impact in great degrees, including Apple industry. In this context, it is an urgent need to address many problems of Apple industry in order to obtain stable development. And organizational innovation is the effective measures to sustainable development and transforming itself.Based on the...
On the basis of extant literature, we built a conceptual model of the relationship between network structure, IT capability, organizational relationship management capability, trust and Information Systems Outsourcing (ISO) success, and proposed some hypotheses about them. To test the hypotheses, we designed a questionnaire, and conducted a survey in Xi'an Software Park. We used AMOS 16.0 to analyze...
Customer knowledge value is becoming increasingly recognized as an important part of customer assets, which has got more and more attention to domestic and foreign scholars. This paper proposed to analyze the factors influencing customer knowledge value based on the analysis of present relevant research both home and abroad. We developed a conceptual model of five factors impacting on customer knowledge...
The purpose of this paper is to extend the cumulative theory by examining the interaction mechanisms of capabilities in the setting of value co-creation with customers. Based on large-scale survey data collected in the middle of China and coupled with multi-method, this study makes contributions in the following three aspects. First, the enhancement of certain traditional capabilities (flexibility...
Based on literature review, this study proposed three hypotheses about learning culture and individual innovative behavior. The model was validated in structural equation modeling by investigating 391 employees from 46 organizations. The results indicate that individual learning has positive effects on innovative idea generation, organizational learning has positive effects on both innovative idea...
Relationship quality has been an indicator in the exchange relations of channel members. Trust, as well as satisfaction, has also been found as a crucial variable affecting the intention of channel members to keep business in the future. For the complexity of the trust, it has become a trend to discuss personal trust and organizational trust respectively. There are lots of factors influencing channel...
A large number of studies has been conducted in an attempt to evaluate the government-to-business (G2B) success and investigate the usage determinants. However, there seems to be lack of research that assess the success criteria and look into the usage factors of user attitude, organizational learning and dynamic capability. Therefore, using a survey, we attempt to investigate the matter. Findings...
Under current business environment, product development becomes an important way for a firm to enhance its competitive power. Yet in practice, most product development project fail. This paper tries to discover the key elements for its success or failure by way of survey investigation, whose conclusion can be categorized into 6 issues, i.e. organization management, knowledge management, product development...
Instant messaging has become increasingly prevalent in social life. However, whether to use IM at work remains controversial, due to its unquantified benefits for organizations. In this study we employ the suggestive metaphor of social network theory to examine IM's impact on organizational performance. Specifically, we propose that IM has the potential to enhance organizational agility by enabling...
Previous research indicated that task conflict benefits knowledge sharing (KS), whereas relationship conflict damages it. However, little is known about the underlying process by which the two types of conflicts affect KS. By integrating conflict theory and transactive memory system (TMS) theory, this paper presented a mediational model to test whether two types of conflict have different effects...
Enterprise learning is an important way to maintain the advantages in a cluster. It is a serious issue for the clusters of enterprises, institutions, policy makers at all levels to enhance the competitive ability of the clusters through industrial collective learning. This paper established the relationship model to analyze the systemic relation among the variables based on the hypothesis. And through...
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of motivational factors on the perceived state of quality management systems (QMS) within four small and medium sized companies from different industries in Germany. Although extensive research on motivational factors has been carried out in the last decade, none acknowledges the interrelation between the perceived status of a QMS and the existence...
Software product line engineering is an inter-disciplinary concept. It spans over the dimensions of business, architecture, process and organization. Some of the potential benefits of this approach include cost reduction, improvement in quality and a decrease in product development time. Employees' participation, organizational behavior and management contemplation play a vital role in successfully...
Distinguishing between different dimensions of conflict makes it easier to understand its effect on strategic decision making (SDM) and both decision and organisation outcomes. Previous empirical research in the US setting shows that people differentiate between task conflict and personal conflict. Hence, it is expected that one dimension of conflict will be found to play a positive role in SDM, while...
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