Current research on innovations builds extensively on network analysis demonstrating how different characteristics of social networks affect the ability of organisations to secure a continuous flow of innovation. This research, however, is highly fragmented, emphasising different features of social networks having an effect on various types of innovation at different organisational levels. The result is a plethora of research findings that do not systematically inform the subject matter or provide clear guidance for practitioners in organisations. In this paper, we address this gap and propose an integrative framework to help bring the divergent streams of research together and contribute to a better understanding of organisational innovation. We propose to distinguish between two dimensions: innovation type and organisational level. These distinctions robustly describe characteristic organisational contexts in which innovation takes place. We conclude by proposing for each organisational context how specific network characteristics affect innovation.
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Unlike recent tendencies to specify the variety of postsocialist trajectories, this article attempts to characterize the common features of postsocialist capitalism, as it has developed since the 1990s in Eastern Europe. Using conceptual tools of economic sociology, the post-socialist socio-economic organization is analysed as embedded economy, the institutionalization of capitalism as a moral project, and the pervasiveness of informality from the networks and culture perspectives. Economic development is viewed as dependent, simultaneously, on the system’s structural, political and cultural features. For post-socialist capitalism, these features include lack of state autonomy due to close coupling of political and economic roles; the embrace of greed and self-interest as legitimate motives for action; and persistence and bolstering of informality as modus operandi. Stipulations about developmental consequences are provided in the conclusion.
COBISS.SI-ID: 512973169
In this paper we describe the changes in the corporate governance regime for SOEs from 1990’s until present and characterize those changes by looking at who were considered primer beneficiaries of a particular governance regime. We show, that the changes in corporate governance of SOEs in Slovenia followed the development from a system emphasizing stakeholder value to a system favouring shareholder value. We propose that the key driver of change was the rise of market based institutions of corporate governance aimed at SOEs. As the system of corporate governance started to rely on new market based institutions the emphasis shifted from stakeholder value to shareholder value.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34440029
In this paper, the authors analyse the institutional aspects of local governance. After the local government reforms, two main currents of change were created among European countries, namely the (quasi-) parliamentarisation administration systems committees, and (quasi-) presidentialisation through the form of elected mayors. Through an overview of the changes in the Slovenian local self-government in the last two decades, the authors determine a gradual transition from parliamentarism (with a relatively strong legislative body, municipal council) to the strengthening of the individual executive body (mayor), e.g. presidentialisation. By using the calculated index of mayoral strength, the authors conclude that according to the mayoral institutional power, the Slovenian system of local self-government is closer to the countries with (post) Napoleonic administrative tradition than to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34011229
Research on the labor market returns to education focus on explanations based on human capital, signaling, and closure. Drawing on the case of Slovenia from 1993 through 2007 - as it transitioned from a planned to a market-based economy - we propose an alternative institutionally coordinated perspective.We delineate the key features of this arrangement, which include: (1) strong educational criteria for occupations; (2) pre-set job-level pay; (3) within-job educational premia (pay sub-classes) in some sectors;and (4) a portion of pay that is performance-based. This institutionally coordinated perspective helps usunderstand both the role education plays in matching Slovenians to jobs, and how education contributes to differential pay between individuals in the same job. We use matched employer-employee data on all Slovenians to examine the degree to which the returns to education result from sorting into different establishments, occupations, and occupation-establishment units. We find that sorting processes account for the majority of the returns to education under this institutionally coordinated arrangement. Further,the degree to which sorting matters varies by education type, with the returns to vocational education being somewhat less driven by sorting processes.
COBISS.SI-ID: 34241373