Browsing by Author "Umer Ayub"

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    Exploring the Role of Firm’s Absorptive Capacity and Managerial Phronetic Resources in Management Innovation and Its Outcomes
    (UMT, Lahore, 2022) Umer Ayub
    The innovation ability of organizations holds importance as they look to compete for greater market share and better performance. It also offers firms opportunities to grow and expand. The challenge for innovative companies is not limited to focus only on offering new products or adopting new ways of production, rather it also requires attention to be provided for altering organizational processes, practices, and structures. Studies involving innovation no longer focus solely on its technical aspects, instead management innovation initiatives currently attract significant academic and practitioner interest as these offer an important source of sustainable advantage due to their context specific nature. Management innovation is thought to emerge from the use of knowledge management processes which harvest new knowledge and opportunities for utilization.
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    Organizational analysis
    (3rd International Conference on Business Management (ICoBM), UMT, Lahore, Pakistan, 2013) Umer Ayub; Mubashar Majeed; Hasan Sohaib Murad
    The purpose of this article is to analyze a real world organization in the light of theoretical framework developed by Lee & Terrence (2003). Recently organizations have become pervasive and dominant and look like puzzling terrain because they lend themselves to multiple conflicting interpretations, all of which are plausible and create confusion. Rich qualitative information that has the ability to change understanding within a time interval can reduce this confusion. Rich information can clarify ambiguous issues with short timeframe to enhance understanding and cover diverse perspectives. These perspectives become formidably difficult to understand and manage due to increase complexities, surprises, deceptiveness and ambiguities. Organizations have changed about as much in the past decade or two as in the previous century. To survive, they had to. Revolutionary changes in technology, the rise of the global economy, and shortened product life cycles have spawned a flurry of activity to design more fluid more flexible organizational forms (Lee & Terrence, 2003). Managers, consultants, and policy makers inspired by a variety of theories put forward by researchers in an effort to change or improve organizations. In the social sciences, several major schools of thoughts have evolved and each has its own concepts and assumptions and espouses a view of how to bring social collectives under control.