Autor: Julia Velkova

Corporate Culture—Barrier or Potential for Transformability?

Corporate Culture—Barrier or Potential for Transformability?

An empirical view on the mutability of enterprises
Horst Meier, Julia Velkova, Stefan Schröder, Tobias Wienzek
Challenges of transformability have recently experienced great consideration within the field of scientific research. First empirical research has shown that the German term for transformability „Wandlungsfähigkeit” in many cases is used as a synonym for the term “flexibility”. Today’s scientific considerations on this topic mostly focus the technical aspects. However, further aspects such as human resources and organizational factors have to be implied in the present research on conditions that enable change processes. In the course of considerations about conditions the aspects of corporate culture and informal structures attain more attention. The evaluation is conducted as a business analysis and is complimented with qualitative interviews (informal structures). Through this first results and indicators for empowerers and constraints for change are identified.
Industrie Management | Volume 28 | 2012 | Edition 3 | Pages 56-60
Designing Changeable Production Systems

Designing Changeable Production Systems

Holistic Identification and Analysis of Change Factors
Horst Meier, Dieter Kreimeier, Julia Velkova, Stefan Schröder
Internal and external influences of change plus the steady examination with continuous as well as discontinuous change constitute a great challenge for industrial companies to be mastered. The improvement of production systems towards variable and unpredictable requirements caused by a variety of company-specific impacts will be increasingly focused. In this article a concept will be introduced which helps to identify and analyze company-specific change factors systematically.
Industrie Management | Volume 28 | 2012 | Edition 2 | Pages 55-58