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This paper aims to provide empirical evidence concerning the process by which micro‐processes develop and maintain three organizational capabilities: technical and productive capabilities and the capability to engender trust among employees.

The research employs in‐depth case study to provide a longitudinal study spanning 37 years (1971‐2008). The material was collected from available company documents and semi‐structured interviews. In total, 151 interviews were collected from members of the workforce, union leaders, managers, advisors, suppliers, and contractors.

The paper illustrates three characteristics of capabilities: problem solving and complexity, practicing and success, and reliability over time. Additionally, it also illustrates the organizational capability paradox by narrating specific events and illustrating three of its causes: path dependency and lock in, structural inertia, and the absence of a capability dynamization function. The case study suggests that it is helpful to consider the construction of a capability and its dynamization as two separate functions that a company should develop simultaneously.

Limitations derive from case study research methodology, such as difficulty of generalization.

The results suggest that the development of a capability and the dynamization of the system should be understood as two counterbalanced processes that function together according to a dual logic. This is an alternative approach to the concept of the dynamic capabilities of an organization.

The purpose of this paper is to propose the platform for effective transformation of points of interests (POIs) into augmented reality (AR), specifically into the three major software tools – Junaio, Layar and Wikitude. The objective is to facilitate the creation of POIs for common users of these programs and, thus, encourage the general public to participate in the formation of a new concept of applications using AR and location-based services.

The subject of this study was analysis of methods used for POI dynamisation under the context of location-based services. This paper suggests methodology based on database format transformation. It is focused on the creation of platform for automated geotagged POI transformation into AR.

The research results in prototype of online platform which is capable to automatically transform geotagged POI to three major AR applications. It discusses also the model implementation of this platform in Czech national tourist authority.

The paper presents a proof-of-concept of dynamisation and transformation of an unspecified number of POIs stored in a simple table database and their transformation into the AR.

Services of AR are brought for the masses to effectively dynamise tourist information.

Results could make the process of multimedialising data (POIs) more suitable for masses.

This paper presents a proof-of-concept of dynamisation and transformation of an unspecified number of POIs stored in a simple table database and their transfer into the three major AR applications.

The purpose of this paper is to enhance the predictive power of bankruptcy prediction models by taking the past values of firms’ financial ratios as benchmark. For this purpose, the paper proposes an indicator variable expressing the time trends of financial ratios.

The proposed measure uses the minimum and the maximum of financial ratios from the previous period as benchmarks in order to give a more complete picture about the present financial performance of firms. The most popular classification methods of bankruptcy prediction were employed: discriminant analysis, logistic regression, decision trees. Sample specific results and conclusions were avoided by applying tenfold stratified cross-validation.

The empirical results suggest that the proposed measure can increase the predictive performance of bankruptcy prediction models compared to models based solely on static financial ratios. The results gave evidence for the fact that the firms’ past financial performance is a useful benchmark for evaluating the risk of future insolvency.

The proposed concept is completely new to the literature and practice of bankruptcy prediction. Similar concept has not been published to date. The suggested dynamization approach has three important advantages. It is easy to compute from time series of financial ratios. It is applicable within any classifier irrespective of its mathematical background. The performance of models can be enhanced without the necessity of giving up the interpretability of bankruptcy models, so the proposed measure may play very important role in the practice of credit scoring modeling as well.

Using the knowledge-based view of the firm, dynamic capability literature and known dimensions of organizational innovativeness (OI), this article develops two testable models that attempt to explain: (1) how innovativeness functions as a source of capability dynamization and (2) how organizational culture (OC) critically determines this function of innovativeness.

The study uses a cross-sectional design and maximum variation sampling to identify organizations from the population of formal Indian business firms with the aim of controlling the effects of moderating variables such as their size, age, nature of business and ownership. Measurement instruments are borrowed from the literature. The cleaned dataset (n = 453 cases from 13 organizations) is randomly split into two-halves, which are used separately for extracting and confirming underlying factors. Rigorous procedure for assessing scale psychometric properties has been followed. The hypotheses are tested using structural equation modelling (SEM).

Except for a couple of paths that turned out insignificant, the data by and large support the study hypotheses. While market innovativeness failed to emerge as a factor, the capability dynamizing dimensions of innovativeness significantly predict its outcome dimensions of product and process innovativeness. Barring the effect of “trust”, they also fully mediate the effect of the rest of the culture factors on these outcome dimensions. Importantly, they are substantively determined by the culture factors, suggesting that the capability dynamizing dimensions are embedded in culture.

The primary contribution of this study is that besides accounting for how firm innovativeness can possibly explain the dynamism in dynamic capabilities, the results indicate a critical influence of culture in determining the potency of the dynamizing mechanisms. This has important implications for theory and practice.

The paper borrows inspiration from three main sources: international marketing research, semiotic theory and communication studies. It explores online marketing for pharmaceutical products related to taboo topics. A qualitative analysis of a German Web site brings out strategies employed to market sensitive products. The three main strategies are analysed on a visual and verbal level. Multicodality, code switching, dynamisation of code and non‐sequential data structure are purposefully combined to communicate effectively with the user. It is argued that product marketing via Web sites is a balancing act between globalisation and localisation; global marketing aiming at economies of scale and local marketing at context‐sensitive communication – with both depending on each other for their own success.

This research aims to measure the extent manufacturing companies from the Basque region (Spain), which place a greater emphasis on innovation, have adapted their management context in accordance with the middle‐up‐down management model put forward by Nonaka and Takeuchi and Nonaka et al. The study explores whether the degree of adoption of the aforementioned model is influenced by contingency factors such as company size or technological level.

An ad hoc questionnaire was addressed to the chief executive officers of the companies. Structural equation modelling based on partial least squares was used to test the main hypotheses of the research.

Firms which develop a higher organizational learning capacity put a greater emphasis on innovation. Additionally, the innovation focus of companies is positively related to the implementation of management systems which are more in accordance with the middle‐up‐down management model, and the degree of adoption of the aforementioned model is not influenced by company size or technological level.

The approach taken in the research serves the purpose of linking extremely abstract concepts from the middle‐up‐down model with specific elements from the management context. It also contributes to the development of empirical research in the domain of organizational learning, aimed at clarifying the relationship between organizational learning capacity and innovation orientation. The research contributes towards a better understanding of the degree of adoption of such a model in the Basque region, paving the way for future comparative studies which might take other regions of the world into consideration.

In today’s turbulent environment, it is important that companies effectively leverage resources available both in-house and in their interorganizational ties. The purpose of this study is to focus on technology as a key resource and aims to analyse contextual factors of the relationship between the technological heterogeneity of suppliers and the buyer firm’s short- and long-term performance in a dynamic approach.

This paper applies a mixed-method approach. The theoretical model has been developed based on extant literature, validated by a workshop with practitioners, and tested using structural equation modelling on a sample of 157 companies.

Suppliers’ technological heterogeneity has a significant positive effect on both the buyer’s actual business performance and its research and development capability. Business performance captures the short term, while the long-term performance implications of heterogeneity are understood as a precondition for future, technology-based competitiveness. The results show that both short- and long-term consequences are mediated by the buyer’s supply chain management efforts (SCMEs), while the relationship between technological heterogeneity and these efforts is moderated by the buyer’s networking capability (NC).

This study provides the first evidence of potential long-term positive performance consequences of technologically heterogeneous suppliers. Additionally, it develops new insights into how the internal abilities of the focal firm might facilitate or hinder the positive implications of such heterogeneity. Specifically, the role of the buyer’s SCMEs and its NC is analysed. Industry-specific analyses offer new opportunities for future scholarship and future studies could extend research with other contextual factors.

Managers at different levels of the buyer firm should be aware of the organizational capabilities through which they can leverage the potential embedded in technologically heterogeneous suppliers. The results contribute to this understanding, which is especially important when a change in the environment (and the consequent changes in the level of technological heterogeneity) is constant.

This paper reflects on an important critique of the extant literature by applying a dynamic approach. Dynamization is twofold. Firstly, this study does not limit empirical analysis to short-term performance consequences. Secondly, this study discusses contextual factors that capture some aspects of the buyer’s ability to dynamically adapt to the changing environment. SCMEs align the supply chain of the buyer along customer requirements that change over time, while the NC is responsible for the ongoing reconfiguration of the supplier’s base.

The purpose of this paper is to focus on understanding the factors which affect the social interaction in the case of Facebook. Many authors point out the great potential of these networks for social interaction and as conduits of information. However, studies show that the topology of the network is disconnected, consisting of small sub-networks that make Facebook unsuitable for disseminating information. This situation has created the need to introduce exogenous factors, aimed at boosting and providing cohesion to the network structure. In this context, the authors test the following question: how exogenous and endogenous factors contribute to encouraging social interaction on Facebook.

For the analysis of social interaction on Facebook, a population consisting of all the followers of the walls of ten corporate social networks was used. From the total 269,424 users analyzed, a stratified sample of 132 followers was obtained and networks were built for each of them. The authors then proceeded to search for each follower’s friends and friends of friends to build the social network up to the fourth level, obtaining a total of 132 subnets with 1,628,074 links between them. To determine the impact of both exogenous and endogenous factors in the interaction of the network the authors performed a causal analysis.

The results obtained from this study provide empirical evidence on the adequacy of companies’ dynamization measures used and how exogenous and endogenous factors influence the social interaction on Facebook. Thus, the results show that exogenous factors, such as the activity of the community manager and the digital marketing investment in the network, do not have a significant effect on the interaction. On the other hand, endogenous factors, such as network density and clustering, have a positive effect on the trigger of social interaction between the followers. Therefore, companies must consider the importance of the structural factors that characterize network followers, such as density or clustering coefficient, to be able to interpret and optimize them to obtain higher levels of social interaction.

This is one of a few papers that examine interactions in social network sites (SNS), particularly in corporate network sites in Facebook. The results expose the importance for organizations to have reliable information on the patterns of interaction to properly manage the resources allocated for this purpose in SNS.

The purpose of this case report is to (1) to describe outputs of a change project at Muenster University of Applied Sciences (Germany), which targeted its “operational core” of professors and (2) on this basis to derive ideas on how to ensure a high level of pervasion of change projects in the higher education sector.

The author compiled data on the extent to which the project has penetrated the organisation derived from the project documentation, discusses satisfaction with the level of pervasion and presents four approaches to increase the level of organisational pervasion for similar projects. These were developed in introspective observations by the project team during project execution (2011–2021).

The level of pervasion achieved by the project was judged to be satisfactory overall, but in principle still capable of being increased, as there are clear differences between subject disciplines. Four approaches to increase the level of pervasion are derived: (1) explicit attention to and monitoring of informal structures, (2) use of milieu-specific segmentation techniques of target groups, (3) variations of the way change objectives are presented within the organisation and (4) a dynamisation of stakeholder management.

The paper offers guidance to change managers in higher education institutions on how to improve the planning phase of change projects. It is essential for change projects to achieve their intended outcome (project outcome) that the organisation is sufficiently pervaded in quantitative terms (project outputs). The recommendations presented in this paper should be of interest to all higher education staff involved in change management, as they can help to increase the level of organisational pervasion.

Although Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are considered to be a type of organisation that is difficult to change, change projects are an integral part of their management practice, follow one another at an increasing pace and are often being driven forward in a network of several parallel projects. This paper presents recommendations to increase the success of change projects in HEIs. In summary, the recommendations suggest breaking down organisation-wide change projects to the organisational meso level.

Weak regional commercial and productive integration and monetary dependence on the economic poles are evidence of the consolidation of Latin America's peripheral position in the world economy. This research analyzes different monetary initiatives launched individually or collectively by countries in the region to alleviate this position, such as the petro, the SUCRE, or El Salvador's bet on the legal acceptance of bitcoin as a payment instrument. After identifying some of their limitations, we propose some basis for monetary coordination with which to advance in the dynamization of productivity and trade complementarity of the countries of the region.