Management Research News: Volume 26 Issue 8

The process of selecting technology development projects: a practical framework

Joost M.J. Herps, Herman H. van Mal, Johannes I.M. Halman, Jack H.M. Martens, Ron H.M. Borsboom

In this article a practical framework is proposed, that can be used to organise the activities related to the selection‐process of technology development projects. The framework…

How to orient employees into new positions successfully

Randolph Cirilo, Brian H. Kleiner

All firms provide some form of orientation for new employees. This article discusses how to make such programmesmore effective. Three components of orientation programmes are…

The politics of researching gender in organisations

Mike Broussine, Pam Fox

This article is based on a study of the experiences of women chief executives in British local government. Our emphasis will be on our experiences of carrying out the study, and…

Performance management: TQM versus HRM – lessons learned

E. Soltani, R.B. van der Meer, J. Gennard

This article focuses on the key research findings and challenges pertaining to evaluation and managing the employee performance in the context of quality management derived from…

Business improvement districts in town and city centres in the UK

Peter Jones, David Hillier, Daphne Comfort

Within town and city centres in the UK the challenges of managing public spaces, concerns about crime, the fear of crime, anti‐social behaviour and environmental problems and the…

Niche overlap – competition and homogeneity in the organizational clusters of hotel population

Murat Kasimoglu, Bahattin Hamarat

Competition and attempts to increase market share between organizations play an important role in business ecology. It has been determined that intensity in the institutions and…