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Author-Name: Fumihiko Isada
Author-Name-First: Fumihiko
Author-Name-Last: Isada
Author-Email: isada@kansai-u.ac.jp
Author-Workplace-Name: Kansai University
Title: An empirical study on inter-organizational network structures for automated vehicles
Abstract: This study aimed to examine empirically whether rapid changes in the technological environment affect inter-organizational relationships. In the automotive industry, the advantage of cohesive and vertically integrated inter-organizational relationships has been pointed out conventionally. The development of automated driving in the automotive industry, which is the subject of this thesis, is eliciting significant changes in the traditional automotive products and industry structure ? changes generally associated with the automotive product structure moving closer to IT products. And, sharply conflicting views are found in previous studies as to whether this traditional inter-organizational network will change. As a methodology, I aimed to clarify empirically what kind of network structure of inter-organizational relations firms is growing with changes in industrial structure by creating a database of actual firm behavior. The database was analyzed using the social network analysis method, and the characteristics of growing firms? organizational network structure were extracted. The results from an analysis of a large number of databases indicated that the technological change from automated driving may have prompted a change in inter-organizational relations toward a horizontal division of labor in the automobile industry in which so-called platform leader companies would emerge.
Classification-JEL: M11, O32, M19
Keywords: network formation, partnership, technological change, open innovation ecosystem, vertically integrated
Journal: International Journal of Business and Management
Pages: 1-18
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Year: 2021
Month: November
File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-116954
File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-116954?download=1
Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:9:y:2021:i:2:p:1-18
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Author-Name: Barbara A. Manko
Author-Name-First: Barbara A.
Author-Name-Last: Manko
Author-Email: manko001@gannon.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Gannon University, Erie
Title: Risk Management: Modeling the Human Resources Response to the Covid-19 Shutdown
Abstract: When an organization closes its business temporarily or transfers employees to work from home during the pandemic, it faces risks. The biggest risk is the loss of the most important assets of any company ? the employee. Employees who have been left without a job may find a new one and not return to the old job when the business reopens. Further disruption may occur because some people prefer the organizational culture of face-to-face work, and working online is not the same. They experience loneliness and disruption from their personal life. Our model and survey are designed to help managers and leaders save their organizations. A business?s effectiveness and reputation is built from customer and employee communication.
Classification-JEL: C29, F20, L21
Keywords: Organization Risks, Risks Management, Organization Performance, Organization Model, Organization Culture, Organization Effectiveness, Efficiency, Risks Management, Organization Performance, Organization Model
Journal: International Journal of Business and Management
Pages: 19-35
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Year: 2021
Month: November
File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-116937
File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-116937?download=2
Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:9:y:2021:i:2:p:19-35
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Author-Name: Kurt Motamedi
Author-Name-First: Kurt
Author-Name-Last: Motamedi
Author-Email: kurt.motamedi@pepperdine.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Pepperdine University
Title: Zeal and Z-Factor:  Will, Adaptability and Copability in Dynamic Complex Environments
Abstract: Zealous social systems prosper and effectively respond in dynamic complex environments and crises. Z-factor is an essential competence in managing crises. Zeal and Z-factor are comprised of three mutually synergic processes of willfulness, adaptability, and copability (cope-ability). Will determines the drive and the commitment to achieve the overarching purposes. Adaptability is the capability to understand and make necessary adjustments to address requisite external factors. Copability is the internal processes that help maintain a sense of well-being and wholeness. In dynamic and complex environments, zealous social systems strive to achieve their will through adapting and coping. Those with feeble zeal are less capable of adopting the will for adapting to their external conditions or sustaining their internal wholeness. When facing complexity and change, the zealous willfully strives to build and maintain external relevance to adapt and sustain internal efficacy and coherence. The zeal to succeed is driven by the purposeful will and synergy of adapting and coping for responding to externally induced changes while assuring a well-functioning system internally. This article explores zeal and Z-factor as a requisite determinant of social systems? effectiveness, well-being, and revitalization in dynamic complex environments.
Classification-JEL: H12
Keywords: Z-Factor, Zeal, Will, Adapting, Coping, Adaptability, Copability, Change, Crisis, Crisis Management, Complexity, Complex Environments, Zealous Leadership, Covid-19 pandemic, adapting, resilience, Overcoming Adversity, Leading through upheaval
Journal: International Journal of Business and Management
Pages: 36-48
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Year: 2021
Month: November
File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-116951
File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-116951?download=3
Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:9:y:2021:i:2:p:36-48
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Author-Name: Pavel ?e?ábek
Author-Name-First: Pavel
Author-Name-Last: ?e?ábek
Author-Email: pavel.rezabek@vse.cz
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economic and Social Policy, Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Prague
Title: Adoption of the FX Commitment in the Czech Republic: Some Reflections of the Insider
Abstract: This article discusses the decision of the Czech National Bank from November 2013 to use the exchange rate as an additional monetary policy instrument from the point of view of one the Board members present in the monetary policy meeting under discussion. Even a few years after the end of the intervention regime, it is impossible to objectively assess all the advantages and disadvantages and future risks of this step. The goal of this article is not to provide a systematic analysis of the impact of FX interventions, but to reflect on some of their controversial or risky aspects in view of the global economic development.
Classification-JEL: 
Keywords: GDP, monetary policy; central bank, FX intervention, deflation, inflation target, inflation expectations, exchange rate, macroprudential policy, self-reflection, art of communication
Journal: International Journal of Business and Management
Pages: 49-56
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Year: 2021
Month: November
File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-116955
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Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:9:y:2021:i:2:p:49-56
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Author-Name: Jan Skope?ek
Author-Name-First: Jan
Author-Name-Last: Skope?ek
Author-Email: skopecek@post.cz
Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Prague
Title: Impact of Establishing the Eurozone on Economic Performance
Abstract: The paper focuses on the impact of deepening the European integration process or the launch of the euro on the economic performance of the European economy. It points to weak economic growth rates in European economies, thus disproving the assumption of the fathers of the common European currency that the introduction of the euro will lead to higher economic growth rates. It analyses European strategies to make the Eurozone the most competitive economic center in the world, discussing the reasons why these strategies have repeatedly failed. Furthermore, the term secular stagnation in the European context is also debated. The text also discusses the reasons for the weak economic growth of the Eurozone and points to divergent developments in European economies within the Eurozone. 
Classification-JEL: F15, O49, K20
Keywords: Economic Integration, Monetary Union, Optimum Integration Area, ECB, GDP, Growth, Interest Rates, Regulation, Aggregate Labor Productivity, Cross Country Output Convergence
Journal: International Journal of Business and Management
Pages: 57-74
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Year: 2021
Month: November
File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-116962
File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-116962?download=5
Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:9:y:2021:i:2:p:57-74