Managing organizational knowledge integration in the emerging multimedia complex

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Due to technological convergence, complexes of interrelated industries are emerging. This paper presents a conceptual framework of the role different organizational forms and combinative capabilities play in the management of organizational knowledge integration in this context. The focus is on firms previously operating in one of the relatively stable constituting industries. We argue that a firm's organizational form has to be matched with appropriate combinative capabilities in order to integrate component knowledge into architectural knowledge that consequently serves as a platform for generating new product-market combinations. The framework is empirically illustrated using the example of two Dutch publishing firms moving into the multimedia complex, which is currently emerging around information and communication technologies. The empirical analysis shows that the framework offers strong potential for improving the understanding of the complex process of organizational knowledge integration, as the prerequisite for developing new business in an emerging industrial complex. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

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Leading horses to water? The impact of decentralization on managerial behavior

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This article examines the relationship between the process of decentralization and changes in managerial behavior. The removal of centrally imposed regulations and instructions only result in organizational performance changes when accompanied by changes in managerial selection, compensation, and development.

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Fads, techniques and control: the competing agendas of TPM and TECEX at the Royal Mail (UK)

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Issues discussed concern the implementation of organizational change, focusing on traditional and contemporary research in management theory. This article analyzes the competition between two change initiatives, Total Productive Maintenance and Technical Centres of Excellence, at the UK's Royal Mail.

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