Management Decision: Volume 42 Issue 7

“It will happen again”: What SARS taught businesses about crisis management

Brennan Day, Ruth Burnice McKay, Michael Ishman, Ed Chung

Important lessons can be learnt from the recent SARS epidemic, which reminds us that despite technology and science, the world is not entirely secure from such outbreaks. In…

Cross‐cultural conflict and expatriate manager adjustment: An exploratory study

Avan Jassawalla, Ciara Truglia, Jennifer Garvey

A key reason for the return of expatriates before the official end of their foreign assignment is the uncertainty and frustration resulting from poor cross‐cultural adaptation…

An assessment of various approaches for evaluating project strategic benefits: Recommending the strategic index

Frank Lefley

Capital projects can be complex and offer strategical benefits that are difficult to quantify in financial terms and, as a result, are often left out of the appraisal process…

International advertising strategy: A review, reassessment and recommendation

T.C. Melewar, Claes Vemmervik

This paper reviews and critiques the standardization debate in international advertising strategy. First, the paper identifies the standardization, adaptation and compromise…

A framework for situation room analysis and exploration of its application potential in the information technologies market

Bob Roberts, Adamantios Koumpis

Work presented in this paper forms part of a wider research in defining a methodological framework for situation room analysis (SRA), and its employment for complex (business…

The differentiating function of modern forms of leadership

Jan Torpman

According to recent developments in decision‐making theory organizational decisions are governed by organizational values and identities according to a logic of appropriateness…

Toward global competitive advantage: Creation, competition, cooperation, and co‐option

Hao Ma

This paper advances an integrative framework on the determinants of competitive advantage in global competition. It coalesces the disparate array of literature on competitive…

Cultural approaches to management

Manfred Kets de Vries speaks with Editor Sarah Powell about the interface between psychoanalysis/dynamic psychiatry and management, distinct organizational types, cultural…