Management Decision: Volume 59 Issue 3

The strategy and change interface: understanding “enabling” processes and cognitions

Angelina Zubac, Marie Dasborough, Kate Hughes, Zhou Jiang, Shelley Kirkpatrick, Maris G. Martinsons, Danielle Tucker, Ofer Zwikael

The aim of this special issue is to better understand the strategy and change interface, in particular, the (sub)processes and cognitions that enable strategies to be successfully…

Microdivisionalization as a way toward dynamic capability

Roger (Rongxin) Chen, Liang Wang, Eric Ping Hung Li, Guodong Hu

As entrepreneurial top management teams in multidivisional forms are typically treated in pertinent literature as the default organizational solutions for developing dynamic…

Strategic alliances, exploration and exploitation and their impact on innovation and new product development: the effect of knowledge sharing

Jorge Ferreira, Arnaldo Coelho, Luiz Moutinho

This study delves in the controversy about the nature and the sign of the effect of strategic alliances and exploration and exploitation capabilities on innovation and new product…

Sustaining the lean ideology

Sanjay Bhasin, Pauline Found

The purpose of this paper is to explore the interface between Lean strategy and organisational transformation by scrutinising the literature on why Lean strategies fail to be…

Strategy workshops with wider participation: trust as enabler

Johanna E. Pregmark, Rita Berggren

A wider participation from outside the top management team can support the strategy creation and execution of firms through improving access to knowledge, increasing…

Improving maritime safety through enhancing marine process management: the application of balanced scorecard

Wen-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Hung Cheng

This research aims to deal with the analysis of the concept of balance scorecard (BSC) integrated maritime process management in a marine course.

Performance feedback and organizational learning: the role of regulatory focus

Shinhye Ahn, Cecile K. Cho, Theresa S. Cho

This study investigates how a firm's regulatory focus (i.e. promotion and prevention foci) affects growth- and efficiency-oriented strategic change, highlighting the role of…

Cognitive biases and decision-making strategies in times of change: a systematic literature review

Chiara Acciarini, Federica Brunetta, Paolo Boccardelli

In a work environment marked by unprecedented complexity, volatility and ambiguity, managers must accomplish their objectives while navigating many challenges. This paper aims to…

Enabling processes as routines that facilitate cognitive change

Nimruji Jammulamadaka

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of capacity building in reverse mentoring as an enabling routine in bringing about changes in cognitions and capabilities for…

The role of heuristic-driven biases in entrepreneurial strategic decision-making: evidence from an emerging economy

Maqsood Ahmad, Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah, Yasar Abbass

This article aims to clarify the mechanism by which heuristic-driven biases influence the entrepreneurial strategic decision-making in an emerging economy.

Does underconfidence matter in short-term and long-term investment decisions? Evidence from an emerging market

Maqsood Ahmad

The purpose of this article is to clarify the mechanism by which underconfidence heuristic-driven bias influences the short-term and long-term investment decisions of individual…