Journal of Management Development: Volume 34 Issue 8

Towards the distinctive Islamic mode of leadership in business

Aikaterini Galanou, Dalia Abdelrahman Farrag

The paper provides some fundamental observations on leadership from an Islamic perspective and the Islamic revealed knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to measure the…

Drivers of firms’ growth: a case study of software firms in Islamabad/Rawalpindi regions

Naqeeb Ur Rehman

The purpose of this paper is to identify the drivers of firm’s growth such as research and development (R & D), absorptive capacity, knowledge management, organisation…

Do we know what they know? Comparing US and French undergraduate students’ knowledge of core business concepts

Mary Kate Naatus, Katia Passerini, Kevin Pon, Mark Somers

– The purpose of this paper is to compare knowledge of business concepts acquired at the end of undergraduate studies of management in France and the USA.

The impact of company-dependent and company-independent information sources on organizational attractiveness perceptions

Hsiu-Fen Lin

Grounded in the extended technology acceptance model and dual-process theory, the purpose of this paper is to develop a research model to examine the impact of company-dependent…

Organizational meetings: management and benefits

Vincent Bagire, Jolly Byarugaba, Janet Kyogabiirwe

The purpose of this paper is to examine the management and benefits of meetings so as to draw conclusions on their effectiveness in organizations given the increasing discontent…

The relationship between budgetary evaluation, firm size and performance

Azzouz Elhamma

The purpose of this paper is to present the main results of the first empirical study done in Morocco and attempts to highlight the impact of the firm size on the budgetary…

Hiring for the green economy: Employer perspectives on sustainability in the business curriculum

Beate Klingenberg, Susan M Kochanowski

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how recruiters at a college career fair perceive sustainability and the knowledge business graduates should have about it. It reports…

Employee competences in manufacturing companies – an expert survey

Gerrit Meyer, Bianca Brünig, Peter Nyhuis

The purpose of this paper is to present competences that are highly relevant for manufacturing today and tomorrow. Following a discussion on the concept of “competence”, a variety…

Exploring the moderating role of context satisfaction between job characteristics and turnover intention of employees of Indian public sector banks

Piyali Ghosh, Alka Rai, Ragini Chauhan, Nitika Gupta, Anamika Singh

An employee’s satisfaction with the work context may affect her/his perception of the organization and may hence be a predictor of her/his intention to leave. The purpose of this…

An emic approach to organizational citizenship behavior of Mexican professionals

Miguel A. Baeza, Yong J. Wang

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the dimensionality of emic (culturally specific) organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) of Mexican professionals.