Empirical Research on Dynamic Capability: Analyzing Organizational Mechanism in firms and laboratories

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The research illustrates how factory in process industry can innovate its production control system. It explains the process how the middle management provided the shop floor with a new management goal to eliminate bottlenecks in production process; organizational learning having crossed the traditional organizational boundary enabled the shop floor to change routines, having resulted in the firm's improvements in both productivity increase and shortening lead-time.Second, it aims to examine the adaptation of organizational design in the context of the academic sector drawing on a survey of biology laboratories in Japanese universities. It examines how the variation in task allocation affects scientific productivity. Results suggest that flexible organizational design with limited division of labor suits basic research, where exploratory approach is common with high unpredictability, while rigid design is fitter for applied research, which is relatively exploitative and predictable.