How often we hear, people changing their companies in pursue of better income and benefits? Most of us ever hear it. But don’t you know that company and its employees in fact need each other, employees are the company’s assets because of the absence of human resources the company will not be able to walk, as well as employees can not support the welfare of his life without the company as a place to make a living as well as implementation of the discipline of their own.
Then the employee must be considered well-being not only the obligations required course with a variety of workloads, as well as with employees who do not only demand their rights but the work and responsibilities as employees are not resolved. But there are still companies who are less concerned employees so that employees become demotivated, lazy, and not impressed either his work. So they assume that no matter how hard they work the company does not care about them, let alone to provide welfare or employee benefits and just compensation for them.
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An active industrial process which involved many human resource are not belong to government or big company only, there are other active players that contribute the dynamic parts of industrial process.
Those are organizations such as universities, venture capital, consulting engineering firms, consumer advocacy groups, NGOs, service operators, and so forth. In fact, the list of societal actors which engage directly in knowledge production or exploitation is an empirical question, and as such an open question.
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Doing and interpreting empirical research in order to develop research designs, which can provide a way to discuss the issues mentioned earlier, such as radical versus incremental.
Having chosen a firm or industry, the researcher wants to know in which dimensions the firm ‘exit’ or had access to ‘new’ or ‘old’ activities, knowledge, and resources in order to innovate in technological domains. For example, the question might be ‘which types, and why, of knowledge can be reused within the firm and lead to better firm performance, including higher firm growth?’
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MLP or Multilevel Perspective consists of three types, which are reproduction, transformation, and transition. MLP was originally developed to understand transitions and regime shifts.
The basic ontology behind the MLP stems from the sociology of technology, where three interrelated dimensions are important:
(a) socio-technical systems, the tangible elements needed to fulfil societal functions;
(b) social groups who maintain and refine the elements of socio-technical systems; and
(c) rules (understood as regimes) that guide and orient activities of social groups
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Technological change does not feature prominently in most analysis of the boundaries of the firm. This argument may seem puzzling in that, in neoclassical economics, the boundaries of the firm are technologically determined by the relevant production function, but the approach taken both by the neo-classicists and later writers generally ignores the effects of subsequent major changes.
Thus, the dynamics in Chandler’s story are based on particular characteristics common to many technologies of the first half of the twentieth century the presence of substantial economies of scale and capital-intensive production methods but he generally treats technology as a given and pays little attention to the effects of technological change on firm boundaries because he believes that later incremental changes did not undermine the importance of these characteristics.
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