Management Decision: Volume 45 Issue 1

The external environment's effect on management and strategy: A complexity theory approach

Roger B. Mason

This paper seeks to investigate the influence of the external environment on the choice of strategic management activities, from a chaos and complexity perspective, since a…

Using old concepts to gain new insights: addressing the issue of consistency

Colin Jones

This paper aims to go beyond a bookkeeping approach to evolutionary analysis whereby surviving firms are better adapted and extinct firms were less adapted. From discussion of the…

Sweep or seep? Structure, culture, enterprise and universities

S. Kothari, R.D. Handscombe

In this paper universities are considered to be central to a knowledge‐driven economy. UK employers value generic skills more highly in employees where disciplinary‐based…

Critical growth factors of ICT start‐ups

Frank Lasch, Frédéric Le Roy, Saïd Yami

The present study in this paper seeks to deal with the crucial topic of growth determinants for ICT start‐ups. In this emerging industry high firm birth rates go hand in hand with…

Ethical behavior and social responsibility in organizations: process and evaluation

Anne Marie Fray

The purpose of this paper is to show the difficulty inherent in maintaining long‐term ethical behaviours in organisations. Such ethical behaviours are not always clearly…

Networking in South African businesses

Saskia De Klerk, Jaipe Kroon

The purpose and the goal of this paper were to investigate South African businesses and determine their utilisation of new technologies and business structures. The role and…

Strategy dynamics in the logistics industry: a transactional center perspective

François Fulconis, Laurence Saglietto, Gilles Paché

The paper aims to put forward a transactional center approach to the four‐party logistics (4PL) development. For about ten years, the European logistics industry has indeed been…

Women entrepreneurs and strategic decision making

Bitange Ndemo, Fides Wanjiku Maina

This paper seeks to explore the strategic decision‐making process by women owner‐managers of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries, focusing on environmental…

Becoming misrepresentations in strategy and time

Steven Henderson

This paper seeks to review some ontological issues in the creation and representation of strategic management and strategic management processes.

Guest editorial

Andy Adcroft

Emerald at 40

Rebecca Marsh