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1 – 10 of 88David Hedberg, Martin Lundgren and Marcus Nohlberg
This study aims to explore auto mechanics awareness of repairs and maintenance related to the car’s cybersecurity and provide insights into challenges based on current practice.
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Purpose
This study aims to explore auto mechanics awareness of repairs and maintenance related to the car’s cybersecurity and provide insights into challenges based on current practice.
Design/methodology/approach
This study is based on an empirical study consisting of semistructured interviews with representatives from both branded and independent auto workshops. The data was analyzed using thematic analysis. A version of the capability maturity model was introduced to the respondents as a self-evaluation of their cybersecurity awareness.
Findings
Cybersecurity was not found to be part of the current auto workshop work culture, and that there is a gap between independent workshops and branded workshops. Specifically, in how they function, approach problems and the tools and support available to them to resolve (particularly regarding previously unknown) issues.
Research limitations/implications
Only auto workshop managers in Sweden were interviewed for this study. This role was picked because it is the most likely to have come in contact with cybersecurity-related issues. They may also have discussed the topic with mechanics, manufacturers or other auto workshops – thus providing a broader view of potential issues or challenges.
Practical implications
The challenges identified in this study offers actionable advice to car manufacturers, branded workshops and independent workshops. The goal is to further cooperation, improve knowledge sharing and avoid unnecessary safety or security issues.
Originality/value
As cars become smarter, they also become potential targets for cyberattacks, which in turn poses potential threats to human safety. However, research on auto workshops, which has previously ensured that cars are road safe, has received little research attention with regards to the role cybersecurity can play in repairs and maintenance. Insights from auto workshops can therefore shed light upon the unique challenges and issues tied to the cybersecurity of cars, and how they are kept up-to-date and road safe in the digital era.
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Mike Schraeder, Mark H. Jordan, Dennis R. Self and David J. Hoover
“Unlearning” is discussed as an additional perspective or supplemental strategy for managers/leaders to consider when addressing cynicism in organizations. The article is not…
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Purpose
“Unlearning” is discussed as an additional perspective or supplemental strategy for managers/leaders to consider when addressing cynicism in organizations. The article is not intended to be definitive. The aim of this paper is to generate ideas and encourage further exploration amongst practitioners and scholars regarding the feasibility of this perspective. There are a number of plausible explanations for the origin of cynicism, including the notion that cynicism is learned. As anything that is learned can also be unlearned, “unlearning” seemed to be a compelling perspective worthy of further exploration.
Design/methodology/approach
A targeted literature review of cynicism (with a specific focus on some of the more salient and well-respected research) was utilized to develop a conceptual overview of cynicism, a discussion of key causes/antecedents of cynicism, and common symptoms of cynicism. Select literature was also reviewed relative to the concept of “unlearning”. These varied sources were then synthesized into a framework that outlined the premise of “unlearning” applied to cynicism in organizations.
Findings
This article focuses on the attitudinal dimension of cynicism, discussing “unlearning” as a possible method for addressing cynicism that can be used to supplement, but not necessarily replace, other methods that have proven effective.
Originality/value
Cynicism in organizations has received notable research attention. This article contributes to this important topic by exploring “unlearning” as a supplemental approach or perspective for addressing cynicism with the intent of generating ideas and encouraging further exploration of the feasibility of this approach.
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The airline industry was dealt a hammer blow by the terrorist attacks on the USA last September. With passenger confidence damaged, many large carriers are facing desperate times…
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The airline industry was dealt a hammer blow by the terrorist attacks on the USA last September. With passenger confidence damaged, many large carriers are facing desperate times. But in among this chaos the low‐cost airlines are proudly flying the flag for air travel. For many large airlines already suffering with the economic downturn, 11 September 2001 was a bitter blow. Passenger traffic fell by as much as 40 percent in the following weeks and reflected a huge loss of confidence among the travelling public. Capacity reductions, route cuts and job losses all became disappointing inevitabilities.
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David Taylor, Robyn King and David Smith
The purpose of this paper is to consider how organizations with diverse, interdependent functions with differing evaluative principles and differing ideas as to which behaviors…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to consider how organizations with diverse, interdependent functions with differing evaluative principles and differing ideas as to which behaviors are the most desirable, use management controls in their efforts to achieve innovation.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted a case study of TechCo, an Australian technology start-up company, over a 12 month period.
Findings
The authors demonstrate how the clash of differing evaluative principles among interdependent teams led to the organization seeking new ways of organizing, which in turn, enabled the organization to better manage the interdependencies between the diverse functional areas. Additionally, the findings show how, through the use of management control systems, the organization was able to promote idea generation and “buy-in” across all functional areas, order competing priorities for innovation and set the agenda as to what constituted “acceptable” innovation for the organization to pursue.
Originality/value
The authors find that management controls play an important role in managing the tensions between differing evaluative principles in diverse functional areas in a heterarchical organization, and in supporting innovation in such an environment. As such, the authors provide the first research evidence on how management controls are used within a heterarchy to generate and select innovative ideas.
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Stefania Mariano, Andrea Casey and Fernando Olivera
The purpose of this paper is to systematically review and synthesize the literature on organizational forgetting.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to systematically review and synthesize the literature on organizational forgetting.
Design/methodology/approach
A systematic literature review approach was used to synthesize current theoretical and empirical studies on organizational forgetting.
Findings
The review and synthesis of the literature revealed that the organizational forgetting literature is fragmented, with studies conducted across disparate fields and using different methodologies; two primary modes (i.e. accidental and purposeful) and three foci (i.e. knowledge depreciation, knowledge loss and unlearning) define current organizational forgetting literature; and the factors that influence organizational forgetting can be grouped into four clusters related to individuals, processes, tools and organizational context.
Research limitations/implications
This literature review has limitations related to time span coverage and journal article accessibility.
Originality/value
This paper offers an integrative view of organizational forgetting that proposes a holistic and multilevel research approach and systematic synthesis of organizational forgetting research.
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This paper proposes a framework for understanding the concept of a learning organization from a normative perspective. A questionnaire was developed to operationally measure the…
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This paper proposes a framework for understanding the concept of a learning organization from a normative perspective. A questionnaire was developed to operationally measure the described management practice attributes of a learning organization. Using a sample of four organizations and 612 subjects, support was found for three a priori predictive hypotheses derived from a conceptual framework. Implications of the results and further empirical research are discussed, especially for linking learning organization attributes to performance using larger samples and multiple measures.
Olivier Furrer, J. Rajendran Pandian and Howard Thomas
The paper aims to assess the impact of corporate strategy on shareholder value in decline and turnaround situations.
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Purpose
The paper aims to assess the impact of corporate strategy on shareholder value in decline and turnaround situations.
Design/methodology/approach
A sample of 45 turnaround firms was selected and matched against a control sample which did not face continuous decline over the time period studied. The impact of corporate strategy on shareholder value was tested using cumulative beta excess return measures to capture the long‐term basis of corporate strategy.
Findings
The paper finds that the beta excess return measures captured the hypothesized relationships between strategy and shareholder value for the sample firms studied.
Practical implications
Beta excess return measures are superior to case studies or event studies for identifying the long‐term effects of corporate strategy.
Originality/value
Relatively few studies have compared the strategies of turnaround firms with a matched sample of non‐declining firms. The use of cumulative beta excess returns to assess long‐term valuation of corporate strategy is original.
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Christi Lockwood and Jean-François Soublière
Cultural entrepreneurship research is on the rise, with a growing community of scholars paying attention to the cultural processes and outcomes involved in entrepreneurship…
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Cultural entrepreneurship research is on the rise, with a growing community of scholars paying attention to the cultural processes and outcomes involved in entrepreneurship, strategic innovation, and change. To further develop this community, in this volume we assemble a collection of contributions showcasing two promising advances. In Section A, a first set of papers puts culture in cultural entrepreneurship by highlighting a multi-faceted view of culture and exposing new ways by which culture shapes and is shaped by entrepreneurial action. In Section B, another set of papers takes cultural entrepreneurship beyond entrepreneurship – that is, the prevalent yet narrow focus on new venture legitimation and resource acquisition – by broadening the scope of what cultural entrepreneurship entails and explains. In this introductory paper, we discuss how contributions within each section move the conversation forward and identify cross-cutting themes that can be found in both sections of this volume.
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This study was based on a face‐to‐face survey of 100 chief andsenior executives of a sample of companies that were chosen to reflectthe Scottish economy. The process of strategic…
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This study was based on a face‐to‐face survey of 100 chief and senior executives of a sample of companies that were chosen to reflect the Scottish economy. The process of strategic decision taking was explored and the information leading to the identification of strategic issues was appraised. It is demonstrated by the findings that many companies appear to identify strategic issues and develop their strategies with only limited data. Yet strategic planning relies on the effective use of valid data, coupled with creative interpretation and judgement. However, it is shown by the study that companies are failing to utilise effectively the creative talents of key people in the harnessing of information. As a consequence they are failing to win valuable insights and omitting to obtain essential collective interpretations of critical issues and events.
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