Organisational Innovations in Crisis Management of Project-Based Enterprises

• Authors: Eryk Głodziński , Stanisław Marciniak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Organisational innovations and crisis management have a lot in common. Crisis may come in many various forms. It can be a result of economic slowdown or recession influencing the industry and, therefore, some of its organisations. However, firm disaster can be a result of wrong management decisions or unexpected events. Each form of crisis has its own causes, which influence the company in a number of ways. The main objectives of the paper are to describe the nature of crisis management in project-based enterprises and to define the scope and role of organisational innovations in it. The conducted research shows that the organisational innovations are the crucial elements of crisis response strategies. Applying organisational innovations, the entity can gain short-term benefits because they aim at improving the flexibility and adaptability of the company and the supervision of the running projects

Keywords

EN

Crisis management; organisational innovations; project- based enterprise.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Economics and Business
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 26-32

Dates

published

2016-04-01

online

2016-06-10

Contributors

author

Eryk Głodziński

• Institute of Production Systems Organization, Warsaw University of Technology

author

Stanisław Marciniak

• Institute of Production Systems Organization, Warsaw University of Technology

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eb-2016-0004