This article examines the role of social context in corporate social responsibility (CSR) research. The authors direct attention to three major perspectives in organization studies—institutional, c...

The Social Context of Corporate Social Responsibility: Enriching Research With Multiple Perspectives and Multiple Levels

When top management decides to partake in an extended organization-development program, its members should assure themselves that the existing organization design will not undermine the OD effort by having the wrong people and the wrong set of tasks in the subsystems to be developed. A theory and technology are represented in the MAPS method, which facilitates an organization design that is both practical and supportive of OD values, objectives, and procedures.

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The MAPS Route to Better Organization Design

There is no doubt that innovation takes creativity and vision. But is this sufficient for commercial success? Can the vision of a handful of technologists be clear enough to produce products that will appeal to millions? In most cases this is a difficult proposition. And as products become more sophisticated, greater demands are put on those involved in product development. The technical skills required to produce most products today requires a high degree of specialization. This can leave R&D personnel disconnected from customers. The solution is to create a stronger link between R&D and Marketing. There are, however, numerous barriers to creating this strong link. These can include, but are not limited to, organizational difficulties and cultural differences. In the case of new product development this can be detrimental, limiting the innovativeness of the company. Therefore, it is proposed that the innovativeness as well as the commercial success of products depends on the strength of the linkage between R&D and Marketing. This paper explores the existing literature to validate this statement, explain the difficulties with integrating R&D and Marketing, and presents methods for improving the relationship.

Linking R&D and Marketing for Innovation: A Literature Review

The aim of the paper is to recognize the weight of evaluating the future, conclusively the process of organizational analysis and the impact that this dimension may have on our businesses. However,...

Managerial decision-making (DM) in Kosovo organizations based on SPACE model analysis by using AHP fuzzy method

The data presented above thus indicate that there are differences in the way decision units organize themselves for making routine and nonroutine decisions under different conditions of perceived u...

Robert B. Duncan

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