Management Decision: Volume 43 Issue 3

Factors that inhibit economic development in the information and communications technology industry at the regional level

James M. Henson

Exploratory research to extend and refine a computer‐based interview tool to help determine the factors that companies in the information and communications technology (ICT…

Customer‐based corporate valuation: Integrating the concepts of customer equity and shareholder value

Hans H. Bauer, Maik Hammerschmidt

Synthesis of the customer lifetime value and the shareholder value (SHV) approach in order to develop an integrated, marketing‐based method for corporate valuation.

The use of multiple intelligences to enhance team productivity

Anna L. Green, Aretha Y. Hill, Earnest Friday, Shawnta S. Friday

To provide practitioners and researchers with a framework for using individuals' multiple intelligences (MI) to enhance team productivity.

The future scorecard: combining external and internal scenarios to create strategic foresight

Alexander Fink, Bernard Marr, Andreas Siebe, Jens‐Peter Kuhle

The purpose of this paper is to provide a new and systematic approach towards strategic foresight by combining traditional external scenarios (market‐based approach) with internal…

High performance: ownership and decision‐making in SMEs

Nicholas O'Regan, Martin Sims, Abby Ghobadian

To date there is a dearth of research on strategic decision‐making in manufacturing small and medium sized firms. This research paper focuses on the key drivers of decision‐making…

Understanding the role of locus of control in consultative decision‐making: a case study

Marcus Selart

The study aims at clarifying whether locus of control may act as a bias in organisational decision‐making or not.

P.Y. Gerbeau

To share the views and experiences of a chief executive with a reputation for troubleshooting expertise.

The repeal of prohibition and the resurgence of the national breweries: Productive efficiency or path creation?

Martin Stack, Myles Gartland

This paper, applies the concept of path creation to a historical case. Path creation arose in part as a response to perceived weaknesses regarding the limited role of firm agency…

Getting it right the first time: Alfred Chandler, anthracite coal, and the origins of American management

Richard Marens

This paper reconsiders the criticisms of the most influential theory of the rise of the large corporations, and to see how these criticisms can be met without entirely abandoning…

A historical view of Douglas McGregor's Theory Y

Charles M. Carson

The purpose of this paper is to trace Douglas McGregor's Theory Y thinking back from pre‐industrial revolution philosophers up through McGregor and his contemporaries and to…

The Entrepreneurial Shift: Americanization in European High‐Technology Management Education

Bernardo Bátiz‐Lazo