The Performance of Different Organisations under Different Marked Conditions:

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dc.contributor.author	Skov Kristensen, Frank
dc.date.accessioned	2010-07-02
dc.date.accessioned	2010-07-02T09:45:51Z
dc.date.available	2010-07-02T09:45:51Z
dc.date.issued	2010-07-02
dc.identifier.isbn	87-7873-032-5
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8111
dc.description.abstract	Among some scholars of management, organisation and also economists as well as policy makers it is argued that certain new forms of firm organisation such as flexible and learning organisations increasingly are becoming “best practice”, in an increasingly learning and global economy. On a policy level, in eg. Denmark and OECD, questions are already asked as to how policies should be set up to stimulate such organisational forms. A crucial aspect that is recognised by some scholars, is that it is in certain competitive structures where flexible and learning organisations are well suited, though tends to be overlooked within the debate. The analysis in this paper applies performance data from Statistics Denmark merged with survey data of organisational forms, management, work practices and employee skills collected through a questionnaire in 1900 Danish firms in manufacturing as well as services. Applying regression analyses we show that the flexible or learning organisational forms in some parts of the economy, characterised by innovation turbulence and cumulativeness, are best performers though not in general. We argue that a quantitative analysis as ours is vital to both avoid idiosyncratic generalisations among scholars as well as policy makers, and to give rigid and more detailed implications for policy regarding firm organisation, both at present and in a dynamic setting.	en_US
dc.format.extent	36 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	Copenhagen Business School	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	DRUID;97-13
dc.subject.other	Organisation of the firm, performance, learning, innovation.	en_US
dc.title	The Performance of Different Organisations under Different Marked Conditions:	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt10jul02 siso	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Innovation og Organisationsøkonomi	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	INO	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	INO	en_US
dc.idnumber	x644602642	en_US
dc.publisher.city	København	en_US
dc.publisher.year	1997	en_US
dc.title.subtitle	An Empirical Analysis of the Organisational Structure and Performance of 1900 Danish Firms	en_US