Adidas Originals is one of the sub-brands of the German based sports manufacturer company, adidas. It offers sports-inspired clothing, footwear and accessories that are targeting the young and active lifestyle consumers. For years being a lifestyle and fashion brand that is originally inspired by sports, …

Enterprise 2.0, deconstructed firms, organisational ecosystems: all of these buzzwords are used to identify operating concepts behind today's companies. They are driven by the need to be agile, flexible, distributed, open, transparent, simple, on demand and with a short time to market. In order to be …

This paper is about the conceptual framework of team flow and the action research project at the Hogeschool Utrecht (University of Applied Sciences) which has been launched recently. Have you ever linked the performance of The Rolling Stones - as a long - standing successful music business - to concepts …

Abstract Although organizations, both shippers and logistics service providers, are convinced of the potential of collaboration, it is still not successful in many cases. Therefore, collaboration in logistics is chosen as central theme for this paper. The contribution to this topic is twofold. First, …

In this paper the authors have adopted the Viable System Model (VSM), (a framework for diagnosing and (re)designing the distribution of complexity in order to ensure the viability of an organisation) to analyse the viability of an interorganisational civil military network in the context of a humanitarian …

Collaboration in organizations is not a new phenomenon indeed. Processes in organizations have always required collaboration and co-ordination between people, activities and departments. The last few years, however, there has also been increased co-operation between organizations, the so-called inter-organizational …