Innovation Geography and Regional Growth in European                     Union

Korres, George M.; Tsobanoglou, George; Kokkinou, Aikaterini

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“…For instance, in the field of HRM initially this was confined to personnel management executed by the company's accounting department being mainly concerned with maintaining employee records and payment and salary systems (Baldacchino et al, 2003). Since then, HRM practices have become a hybrid between performance-driven measures mixed with local culture of 'doing business' but it is considered to still be an organisational weakness (Korres et al, 2011). In addition, trade unionism has developed strongly, forcing many Maltese organisations to mainly apply a collective bargaining approach (Parnis, 2003).…”

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Diagnosing Maltese Organisations Using the High Performance Organisation Framework

Waal¹,

Bono²

2020

IJMAR

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Malta’s introduction into the EU increased the competition in the country considerably and local companies as well as foreign subsidiaries have been forced to keep up with international quality standards in operations and human resources, with mixed results. As a consequence, Maltese organisations have been looking for a holistic improvement technique. In this article we investigate whether the High Performance Organisation (HPO) Framework, a scientifically validated technique to evaluate the performance of an organisation and identify possible performance problems and improvement possibilities, is a useful technique to help Maltese organisations in this respect. The research was conducted as part of a 2-day managerial course in Malta on HPOs. Before the course started, the participants were asked to complete the internet-based HPO questionnaire on their own organisation. During the course, the HPO scores of Maltese organisations, consisting of the average of the participants’ scores, were reviewed and an in-depth analysis of the scores on the HPO factors and their characteristics was made. Attention areas were identified and draft recommendations were drawn up. The content of the HPO Action Plan was discussed and ways to approach an HPO transition in Maltese organisations were reviewed. Theoretically, the research contributes to the HPO literature as it is the first study using the HPO Framework in Malta. Practically, the research results provide Maltese managers with a technique to improve their organisations considerably and make them more competitive.

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Diagnosing Maltese Organisations Using the High Performance Organisation Framework

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Bono²

2020

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“…The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible impacts of culture on innovation and entrepreneurship exploring the applicability of the Hofstede's model of cultural dimensions on in-country regional differences in innovation and entrepreneurship in Croatia. Although a member of the EU 28 since 2013, Croatia is typical innovation laggard [54] with the legacy of the socialist planned economy and large regional differences in economic and social development [27], which makes it an interesting case for studying a cross-regional differences.…”

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Regional innovation culture in innovation laggard: A case of Croatia

Švarc

Lažnjak

Dabić

2019

Technology in Society

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The aim of the article is to explore the possible impacts of culture on in-country regional differences in innovation capacities and propensity to entrepreneurship using the Hofstede's model of national culture. There is a number of studies that proved the profound influence of culture on innovation and entrepreneurship capacities. By contrast to cross-country cultural studies, the cross-regional cultural research on innovation and entrepreneurship within a country, especially in Europe, is an under-researched area. The research is based on national survey data (N= 1000) in Croatia, the country that suffers from weaknesses in innovation and entrepreneurial capacities with great regional development disparities. This suggests it as a good example for exploring regional cultural differences.The research proved that Croatian regions are culturally heterogonous but the correlation between regional culture and regional entrepreneurship and innovation capacities was not found. Hofstede's model appeared as having little practical value for strategic management and development and suggest that other factors, presumably more structural than cultural, that mediate poor innovation and entrepreneurship performance should be taken into account. The article contributed to the conceptualization and empirical research of regional innovation culture and provide evidence of the limited explanatory power of Hofstede's model in explaining regional differences by cultural factors.

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High-technology employment growth in China: geographic disparities in economic structure and sectoral performance

Kovacs

Choi

2020

Econ Change Restruct

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Innovation Geography and Regional Growth in European Union

Cited by 5 publications

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Diagnosing Maltese Organisations Using the High Performance Organisation Framework

Diagnosing Maltese Organisations Using the High Performance Organisation Framework

Regional innovation culture in innovation laggard: A case of Croatia

High-technology employment growth in China: geographic disparities in economic structure and sectoral performance

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