In this knowledge explosion environment, knowledge management systems increasing organizational capability and performance.This research investigates play an important role in relationships among several major factors: service quality, knowledge management system quality (include System Quality and Content Quality), system usage, organizational capability (include Agility and Innovativeness) and organizational performance. An empirical study was performed to examine their relationships. The findings show significant positive relation among Service Quality, Knowledge Management System Quality and System Usage; System Usage and Organizational Capability, and Organizational Capability and organizational performance.The result is consistent with existing literature to support the value of knowledge management systems.

As the tendency of globalizes and regionalization of enterprise management develops, enterprises in the world have to face an extremely important subject of multiple human resource management. Whether the enterprise is classified as globalize, cross-nation or regionalization, it should face and plan the strategy of its human resource management more appropriately, which is the core part and the foundation of an enterprise. The range and object of this research is based on Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation and its employees. The company, THSRC, is one of the largest BOT projects in the world. Employees of THSRC with their profession in construction management, operation management at railway area, were recruited from many different countries. The research of investigating the manage method and organization climate of THSRC, can surely provide a great reference to some regional enterprises during the process of transit to globalized enterprises. The purpose of this research is trying to examine the relationships among the perceptions of human resource management practice, organizational, organizational Capability and working behavior. Also, this research intends to investigate the affection of differenct business model to human resource management practice and organizational Capability. We conclude the research result as follows: The human resource management practice has a positive affection on organizational capability. The human resource management practice has a positive affection on enterprise goal. The working attitude and behavior has a positive affection on organizational capability.

No description available.

Knowledge management has become one of the most important trends in business, yet many knowledge management initiatives fail. To understand the success and failure of knowledge management, firms must identify and assess the organizational capabilities required for the effort to prosper, which is the focus of this study. Literature has offered important theoretical grounding for this study with regard to organizational capability as a predictor of knowledge management effectiveness, but empirical examination is lacking. The organizational capabilities have been identified as knowledge infrastructure capability (consisting of cultural, structural, and technological) and knowledge process capability (consisting of knowledge acquisition, conversion, application, and protection). The research model was adopted from Gold, Malhotra, and Segars (2001). This research broke new ground in the field of knowledge management by examining the relationships between knowledge infrastructure capability, knowledge process capability, and organizational effectiveness from the dual perspective of the team (within business units) in contrast to the organization (across business units). Organizations develop knowledge infrastructure to drive desired behaviors, yet knowledge workers develop processes to circumvent the organization's infrastructure (cultural and structural barriers). This may contribute to the problem of knowledge management failure. However, the relationships between knowledge infrastructure and knowledge processes have not been empirically examined, until this study. In addition, most knowledge management research is conducted at the organization level, yet most knowledge management implementation occurs at the team level (project teams, business units, social groups). To help bridge the gaps between theory and practice, this study aligned the unit of analysis more closely with the practitioners' level of implementation. Using only the organization as the unit of analysis would provide little guidance for business leaders in how they can influence the success of knowledge management programs, and it would present an incomplete picture when assessing the relationships between organizational capabilities and knowledge management effectiveness. The organization perspective helps with generalizability of this study, while the team perspective leads to results of a more informative and prescriptive nature for practitioners. Because the field of knowledge management is driven by practical need, this study offers many important managerial implications. Data was collected from several business units of a Fortune 100 multinational firm, and assessed using Structural Equation Modeling. The structural models were developed to test the hypothesized relationships and answer the research questions. As a result, this research provides empirical evidence that knowledge management capabilities are a contributing factor of organizational effectiveness. In addition, it can be concluded that firms with superior absorptive capacity and knowledge integration processes will improve their knowledge management capability. The results of this study include the findings that knowledge infrastructure drives knowledge processes, that organization-level knowledge processes drive team-level knowledge processes, and that knowledge protection is seen as a corporate responsibility rather than a team or individual responsibility. Overall, the findings conform to the literature and lend credibility to Gold et al.'s (2001) theory that effective knowledge management, as measured by its impact on organizational performance, is dependent on the firm's knowledge infrastructure capability and knowledge process capability.

Brands are intangible assets that provide companies with the potential to extract higher rents or prices from customers. However, only few organizations are able to build and sustain brands over a long period of time. Brand management capability - the organization's ability to build and sustain brands becomes important for achieving sustainable competitive advantage. Despite the importance of brand management capability to organizations, majority of the brand management literature has primarily focused on the consumer perspective of brands. This gap in knowledge about the components of brand management capability impedes firms from replicating brand successes, and makes them reliant on brand managers. More recently, there have been multiple calls in literature to identify marketing-related organizational capabilities, which can provide organizations with a sustainable competitive advantage. The focus on developing marketing-based capabilities comes at a time when marketing is losing its influence in organizations. To this end, the current dissertation uses organizational capability theory and literature on brand management to identify the primary resource (intellectual capital comprising of structural, human, and relational capital), organizational culture type (clan, adhocracy, hierarchy, and market), and processes (strategic brand management, internal branding, and market information processes comprising of information acquisition, information transmission, conceptual utilization, and instrument utilization), that constitute the brand management capability. This dissertation also examines the association among various components of brand management capability and brand performance. A survey-based technique was used to gather data from individuals responsible for managing brands. The data was analyzed using PLS-SEM. The results indicate that human capital, relational capital, market and hierarchy culture types, internal branding, strategic brand management, and instrument utilization are positively associated with brand performance. Structural capital, clan and adhocracy culture types, information acquisition, information transmission, and conceptual utilization are not associated with brand performance. From a research standpoint, this dissertation contributes to the extant literature by identifying the resources, organizational culture, and processes that constitute the brand management capability. In addition to the extant brand management processes (internal branding and strategic brand management), a third set of processes identified in this dissertation (market information processes) is argued to be a critical component for successfully managing brands in organizations. This dissertation also provides empirical support for the role of marketing-based capabilities in determining organizational value, which has been debated in recent literature. Finally, this research addresses the calls for exploring marketing-based capabilities, especially at a time when marketing as a function is losing its influence in academia and organizations. From a managerial standpoint, this dissertation provides an outline for organizations seeking to build brand management capability. In addition to developing intellectual capital and brand management processes, firms need to create the right kind of organizational culture that is needed for brand management capability. This is consistent with the movement towards brands being managed with a strategic perspective.

博士(商学) / Doctor of Commerce / 同志社大学 / Doshisha University

This research investigates organisational capabilities and cultures of both partners as potential explanatory factors of co-operative R&D projects outcomes. Contributions to theory are (1) a justification for the existence of organisational capabilities and 'world views', (2) a parsimonious typology of 'world views' and (3) a method to measure organisational capabilities. The survey covers 514 projects in the electronics industry, in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Finland. It obtains 120 full answers, each of which coupling responses from a matched pair of project managers having co-operated on the same R&D project. The survey refers to the organisation's capabilities, to those of the partner, to its 'world view', and to project outcomes. None of the traditional explanatory factors (geographic distance, difference in nationality, size or legal status, strategic compatibility) has any significant influence on any of the outcomes being studied (save one). The explanatory factors introduced by the research (organisational capabilities and 'world views') have a significant influence on almost all outcomes being considered of the co-operative R&D projects: attainment of concrete results, compliance with budget and schedule, creation and transfer of knowledge, learning (modification of capabilities). Cultural diversity, 'absorptive capacity', and teaching effects, selective according to the capability in question, are evidenced. Commonalities between partners are shown to be more important than distance. These results validate empirically organisational capabilities and 'world views' as descriptors of inter-organisational capabilities, and their operationalisation.

This research investigates organisational capabilities and cultures of both partners as potential explanatory factors of co-operative R&D projects outcomes. Contributions to theory are (1) a justification for the existence of organisational capabilities and 'world views', (2) a parsimonious typology of 'world views' and (3) a method to measure organisational capabilities. The survey covers 514 projects in the electronics industry, in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Finland. It obtains 120 full answers, each of which coupling responses from a matched pair of project managers having co-operated on the same R&D project. The survey refers to the organisation's capabilities, to those of the partner, to its 'world view', and to project outcomes. None of the traditional explanatory factors (geographic distance, difference in nationality, size or legal status, strategic compatibility) has any significant influence on any of the outcomes being studied (save one). The explanatory factors introduced by the research (organisational capabilities and 'world views') have a significant influence on almost all outcomes being considered of the co-operative R&D projects: attainment of concrete results, compliance with budget and schedule, creation and transfer of knowledge, learning (modification of capabilities). Cultural diversity, 'absorptive capacity', and teaching effects, selective according to the capability in question, are evidenced. Commonalities between partners are shown to be more important than distance. These results validate empirically organisational capabilities and 'world views' as descriptors of inter-organisational capabilities, and their operationalisation.

Submitted by Maicon Juliano Schmidt (maicons) on 2015-04-24T15:27:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Renato Przyczynski.pdf: 2517179 bytes, checksum: e844b080b56ae169db7db8ac58436525 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-24T15:27:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renato Przyczynski.pdf: 2517179 bytes, checksum: e844b080b56ae169db7db8ac58436525 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-10 / Nenhuma / A produção de serviços depende de uma capacidade coprodutiva que considera a interferência dos clientes usuários na prestação, no consumo e no desempenho dos serviços. Investigações empíricas com o objetivo de mensurar as capacidades de coprodução não encontram-se bem desenvolvidos na literatura de gestão de operações de serviços. O objetivo principal desta tese é investigar empiricamente as Capacidades Organizacionais (CORS) e as Capacidades Operacionais (COPS) para a coprodução de serviços de telecomunicações em um contexto B2B, considerando as dimensões antecedentes e os efeitos no desempenho dos serviços. O instrumento inicial com 77 indicadores foi submetido aos procedimentos de item-sorting, validade de conteúdo e validade de construto. Análises adicionais foram realizadas por especialistas em TI e o instrumento foi submetido a teste piloto com gerentes de TI de 37 agências do Banco do Brasil S.A. O coeficiente alpha de Cronbach foi adotado como medida de confiabilidade. Os procedimentos de pré-teste excluíram 33 questões do instrumento e reduziram para 39 o número de indicadores. O modelo de mensuração ficou estruturado através de quatro construtos operacionalizados como CORS: normas e procedimentos, qualidade da integração com fornecedores, planejamento estratégico de serviços e habilidade em serviços; e quatro construtos operacionalizados como COPS: gerenciamento dos equipamentos, gerenciamento das instalações, segurança dos equipamentos e capacitação dos funcionários. O modelo foi testado em uma amostra de 300 empresas usuárias de serviços de telecomunicações (100 matrizes e 200 filiais). Após a etapa de teste, o modelo foi ajustado durante a técnica de modelagem de equações estruturais e análise fatorial confirmatória. Os índices de ajuste, de confiabilidade composta e de média de variância extraída atingiram os valores recomendados. A validade discriminante foi verificada pelos métodos de Fornell e Larcker (1981) e de Bagozzi e Phillips (1982). Os construtos obtiveram valores significativos (P<0,001) de Critical Ratio (CR) o que sugere validade convergente dos indicadores. Após a verificação de validade e confiabilidade o modelo de mensuração ficou estruturado com 20 indicadores válidos e confiáveis distribuídos em sete variáveis independentes e uma variável dependente. O teste t para amostras independentes revelou diferenças significativas em dois construtos (planejamento estratégico de serviços e segurança dos equipamentos) entre as matrizes e filiais. A análise de regressão linear hierárquica com quatro blocos de variáveis revelou que o modelo proposto é capaz de explicar 23,9% do desempenho dos serviços. Dois construtos formadores das CORS (normas e procedimentos e qualidade da integração com fornecedores) obtiveram valores estatisticamente significativos (P<0,05) o que sugere influência dessas duas CORS no desempenho dos serviços de telecomunicações. Procedimentos estatísticos adicionais de multicolinearidade e de homoscedasticidade mostram evidência de normalidade e consistência na distribuição dos dados. / Service coproduction depends on capabilities that focus on the users interference in the provision, consumption and service performance. Empirical investigations in the production and operations management area aimed at measuring coproduction organizational and operational capabilities are not well developed in the literature. The aim of this paper is to empirically test and investigate the Organizational Capabilities (ORCAPS) and the Operational Capabilities (OPCAPS) for the coproduction of telecommunication services in B2B environments considering their antecedent dimensions and the effects on service performance. The initial instrument consisting of 77 items was submitted to procedures such as item-sorting, content validity and construct validity. Further analysis by IT experts were conducted before the pilot experiment with IT managers from 37 branches of Banco do Brasil S.A. Cronbach’s alpha was adopted as a reliability measure. The pretesting procedures excluded 33 questions from the instrument. For the structuring of the measurement model four constructs were operationalized as ORCAPS (rules and procedures, quality of interaction with suppliers, service strategic planning, and service ability); and four constructs were operationalized as OPCAPS (equipment management, installations management, information security, and staff capacity). The model was tested in a sample of 300 companies, users of telecommunication services (100 headquarters and 200 business units). After testing, the model fit was verified through the structural equations modeling technique and confirmatory factor analysis. The model fit, composite reliability and average variance extracted scores achieved all the recommended cutoff values. Discriminant validity was assessed following the methodology by Fornell and Larcker (1981) and Bagozzi and Phillips (1982). All the constructs were significant (p<0,001) in the assessment of critical ratio suggesting convergent validity of the items. After the validity and reliability tests, the measurement model consisted of 20 valid and reliable items distributed in seven independent variables and one dependent variable. The t test for independent samples revealed significant differences among IT managers from headquarters and business units in two constructs (service strategic planning and equipment safety). The hierarchical linear regression analysis organized in four groups of variables revealed that the proposed model is capable of explaining 23.9% of service performance. Two of the four ORCAP constructs (rules and procedures and quality of interaction with suppliers) were significant (p<0,05) suggesting influence on telecommunication service performance. Additional statistical procedures of multicollinearity and homoscedasticity provided evidence of consistency and normality in the distribution of data.

Abstract The infrastructure and construction industry has for decades suffered from problems such as cost overruns, delays, disputes and low productivity. To transform old adversarial practices and industrial culture into more collaborative and innovative ways of working, new operational models for project delivery have been introduced. A project alliance is among the models developed to improve infrastructure and construction project performance by addressing problems of fragmentation and lack of integration. However, the growing body of conceptual and empirical research on project alliances within the field of project management does not include any in-depth investigation of the capability requirements and relevant processes for managing alliance projects. The goal of this dissertation is to contribute to the project alliance literature within the field of project management by exploring the capabilities needed by an inter-organizational alliance project organization and participating organizations to manage project alliances in the infrastructure and construction context. The research adopts a qualitative approach, utilizing the case study method and in-depth interviews as research methods. The empirical results, which relate to the first project alliances in the Finnish infrastructure and construction industry, highlight the importance of the alliance project organization’s collective capabilities for managing project alliances. Among these capabilities, inter-organizational integration management, collaborative project identity formation and opportunity management are of particular importance. In addition, each participating organization requires specific project alliance capability, which comprises both the ability to implement key activities over the project life cycle and the skills required by project-based organizations and participating individuals. Together, these organizational and project network-level capabilities form the basis for managing such projects. / Tiivistelmä Infrastruktuuri- ja rakennusteollisuus on kärsinyt kustannusten ylityksistä, myöhästymisistä, erimielisyyksistä ja heikosta tuottavuudesta jo kymmenien vuosien ajan. Jotta vanhat, vastakkainasetteluun perustuvat käytännöt ja toimintakulttuuri voitaisiin muuttaa, uusia projektien toteutusmalleja on otettu käyttöön. Projektiallianssi on yksi yhteistoiminnallisista malleista, joka on kehitetty vähentämään toimialan sirpaloitumista ja edistämään integroitumista tavoitteena infrastruktuuri- ja rakennusalan projektien suorituskyvyn parantaminen. Lisääntyvästä konseptuaalisesta ja empiirisestä tutkimuksesta huolimatta, projektiallianssiin kohdistuva tutkimus ei ole tarkastellut organisaatioiden kyvykkyysvaatimuksia ja keskeisimpiä allianssin johtamiseen liittyviä prosesseja riittävän syvällisesti. Väitöskirjan tavoite on edistää projektiallianssin tutkimusta tuottamalla uutta tieto allianssihankkeisiin osallistuvien organisaatioiden kyvykkyysvaatimuksista sekä yhteisistä kyvykkyyksistä, joita projektiorganisaatio tarvitsee allianssiprojektin hallintaan infrastruktuuri- ja rakennusalalla. Tutkimus on toteutettu laadullisena tapaus- ja haastattelututkimuksena. Suomen ensimmäisistä infrastruktuuri- ja rakennusalan allianssihankkeista saadut empiiriset tulokset korostavat allianssiprojektiorganisaation yhteisten kyvykkyyksien merkitystä. Kyvykkyysvaatimukset kohdistuvat erityisesti organisaatioiden välisen integraation johtamiseen, yhteistyötä korostavan projekti-identiteetin muodostamiseen ja mahdollisuuksien hallintaan allianssiprojektissa. Näiden yhteisten kyvykkyyksien lisäksi jokainen organisaatio tarvitsee projektiallianssikyvykkyyden, joka koostuu allianssihankkeiden käynnistämiseen ja hallintaan tarvittavista taidoista ja kyvystä toteuttaa eri elinkaaren vaiheen kannalta keskeisiä toimintoja. Hankkeeseen osallistuvan organisaation projektiallianssikyvykkyys ja yhteiset projektiverkoston kyvykkyydet luovat perustan allianssihankkeen hallinnalle.