Management Decision: Volume 43 Issue 5

Visualising and mapping stakeholder influence

Lynda Bourne, Derek H.T. Walker

The purpose of this paper is to offer insights into a tool that one of the authors has developed to help map, and thus visualise, stakeholder power and influence within the…

Competitive advantage and strategy formulation: The key role of dynamic capabilities

Salvador Vivas López

The aim of this paper is to promote the use of dynamic capabilities as a strategic tool of the highest order in terms of firm management.

What the hare can teach the tortoise about make‐buy strategies for radical innovations

Robert K. Perrons, Matthew G. Richards, Ken Platts

The purpose of this investigation is to help establish: whether or not strong relationships between suppliers and customers improve performance; and if prescriptive frameworks on…

Using research to support management decision making within the field of education

Jane Hemsley‐Brown

There has been much interest in evidence‐informed decision making in education – identifying effective ways of increasing the use of research evidence to provide a basis for…

Deceitful behaviors of alliance partners: potential and prevention

T.K. Das

To provide decision makers in strategic alliances a risk‐time framework to: categorize types of potential deceitful behaviors by partners; and adopt appropriate deterrence…

Towards a high‐performance workplace: managing corporate climate and conflict

Abubakr M. Suliman, Mohamed H. Abdulla

This paper aims to explore the role of work climate in influencing employees’ perceptions of intra‐individual conflict in a Middle Eastern context.

Amin Rajan: Amin Rajan in conversation with Sarah Powell

To elicit the views of a senior consultant to companies including ABN‐AMRO, British Telecom, Ford, GSK, HSBC, IBM, ICI, ICL, Lloyds TSB, Merrill Lynch Investment Management…

Following in the footsteps of Mary Parker Follett: Exploring how insights from the past can advance organizational justice theory and research

Laurie J. Barclay

To examine Mary Parker Follett's writings with respect to organizational justice and highlight insights that can advance contemporary organizational justice theory as well as help…

An overview of continuous improvement: from the past to the present

Nadia Bhuiyan, Amit Baghel

To provide an overview of the history, evolution, and existing research on continuous improvement.

Capital owners, entrepreneurs and managers: a Marshallian scheme

Jesús M. Zaratiegui, Luis Arturo Rabade

The reader of Alfred Marshall writings confronts a variety of businessmen portraits that coexist along his epoch. The purpose of this paper is to describe Marshall's understanding…