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Women leaders have come to symbolize new type of leadership that connotes greater effectiveness and synergy than leadership of the past. As the numbers of women entrepreneurs remain increase and their performance getting better recently, it proved that women able to bring different in leadership and management positions and help organizations maintain a competitive advantage, each leader owned different...
Innovation in processes products, and services is a key to success in knowledge based economy where quality measures alone are not sufficient to bring competitive advantage to small companies in developing countries. While product and process quality measures are often stressed upon, readiness for innovation and knowledge management initiatives in small enterprises needs to be explored critically...
In this turbulent business environment of global recession, traditional organizational structure is reaching its limits. In order to accommodate itself to these changes, managing informal communication beyond old framework is indispensable. It is critical for innovation management to recognize communities of practice and informal leaders. In previous studies we have demonstrated our method was effective...
Using as the initial foundation a new undergraduate course offered through Purdue University's Entrepreneurship Program called ??Women and Leadership??, a much needed graduate course on ??Gender and Leadership?? was developed. Benchmarking of similar courses was incorporated with a literature search related to gender, leadership, and the intersection of the two. These areas are of high importance...
The dynamic and uncertain scenarios that economic organizations have to face force them to deeply rethink themselves and their structure through an internal innovation process aimed at making them more reactive and proactive. Organizations can be viewed as systems whose components (people, team, groups, organizations) are joined by formal and informal relationships, and any process of internal change...
This paper outlines an organizational paradigm that influences the existing organization which desires to innovate and assure its continuity. Being in the epicenter of major organizational decisions requires from the leadership to enhance its awareness of the priorities and value dimensions during the organizational renewal. The organizational design and provided continuity concept do not target generalization...
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