ISSN:0963-1690    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8691.1992.tb00028.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Considerable competitive success can be gained through a continuous stream of incremental improvements made over a sustained period of time. In the West, we have tended to look for the ‘big bang’ solution to manufacturing problems, relying on the step jumps offered by major radical innovation to improve performance. However, experience in Japan and other countries has demonstrated the significant potential of continuous improvement to enhance competitiveness across several dimensions such as productivity, quality, flexibility and responsiveness. At its heart, continuous improvement (CI) is an organisational innovation requiring the mobilisation and commitment of all employees within a firm. Experience in the UK has shown that CI can work, but its introduction and successful management is not automa

ISSN:0963-1690    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8691.1992.tb00029.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

A new kind of creativity circle is gaining acceptance in Japanese companies. It is suggested that western firms will have to reconsider the significance of individual and team‐based creativity for delivering multiple incremental advances. The result may be an enhancement and extension of the work of Quality Circle

ISSN:0963-1690    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8691.1992.tb00030.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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How do architectural designers develop their ideas? By a kind of reflective conversation with the materials of a design situation. A workshop example of a first‐year design project is used to illustrate the process, and to suggest some of the ways in which this sort of interaction work

ISSN:0963-1690    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8691.1992.tb00031.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Managing innovation in Japanese corporations has received considerable international attention. The case example reports the diversification of Nippon Steel Corporation, which is the largest steel manufacturing firm in the world; into electronics; information technology; biotechnology; new materials; and high‐tech oriented services, using documents provided by the organization. The case reveals an important example of managing innovation in the emerging era of global technological competitio

ISSN:0963-1690    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8691.1992.tb00032.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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This article examines the motivations which induce academic researchers to found their own business and reports on the advantages and disadvantages that such an entrepreneurial form presents for an efficient transfer of creativity and innovation from public research laboratories to the marketplace. In the Italian situation it shows that academic spin‐offs can be very efficient in doing this although there are specific and crucial moments which generate tension within the first stages of the firm's life cycl

ISSN:0963-1690    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8691.1992.tb00033.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Management education is now one of the major forms of technology transfer from the West to the former USSR and a highly novel form of cultural intervention. A key challenge for Western management educators is to communicate management concepts into Russian/post‐Soviet terms of reference. Russian cultural traits may strongly influence their receptivity to management concepts. Western management educators should not fall into the trap of thinking that they are Russia's economic salvatio

ISSN:0963-1690    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8691.1992.tb00034.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Book review in this ArticleRobert Erskine (1991) Review of Business Management, (1st edn) Prentice‐Hall Int. (UK) Ltd.Ian Wigston Director Strategic Planning Markets Division BZW Division Barclays Bank PlcMichel Syrett&Clare Hogg, (ed) (1992) Frontiers of LeadershipMarjorie Parker (1990) Creating Shared Vision, Dialog InternationalNils Brunsson (1991)1The Organisation of Hypocrisy: Talk, Decision and Actions in Organisations (translated by Nancy Adler)Theo Melis (1991) The Innovative Packager, Octogram Publishing Co.John Bessant (1991) Managing Advanced Manufacturing Technology: The Challenge of the Fifth WavePeter Barrar&Cary L. Cooper (eds) (1991) Managing Organisations in 1992: Strategic ResponsesPeter Frost, Larry F. Moore, Meryl Reis Louis, Craig C. Lundberg&Joanne Martin (eds) (1991) Reframing Organisational CulturePiers Brendon (1991) Thomas Cook, 150 Years of Popular TourismRobert A. Giacalone&Paul Rosenfeld (eds) (1991) Applied Impression Management: How Image‐Making Affects Managerial DecisionsRobert L. Flood&Michael C. Jackson (1991) Creative Problem‐Solving: Total Systems Interv

ISSN:0963-1690    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8691.1992.tb00027.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY