Management Research Review: Volume 34 Issue 1

Making decision‐making research matter: some issues and remedies

Paul C. Nutt

The purpose of this paper is to provide an appraisal of decision‐making research noting key contributions, issues posed by past work and suggestions for future work that address…

Merger: institutional interplay with customer relationship management

Pirjo Lukkari

The purpose of this paper is to discuss institutional influence on customer relationship management (CRM) practices and the restructuring of portfolios during the merger of two…

Are capital structure decisions of service SMEs different? Empirical evidence from Portugal

Zélia Serrasqueiro

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the importance of information asymmetry in the relationships between Portuguese SME's capital structure decisions and creditors, comparing…

Identification of domains for a new conceptual model of strategic entrepreneurship using the configuration approach

Sascha Kraus, Ilkka Kauranen, Carl Henning Reschke

The aim of this paper is to structure and synthesize the existing scholarly works in the young and emerging field of “strategic entrepreneurship” (SE) as well as to develop a…

Routines in enterprise application systems

Arun Madapusi, Grant Miles

The concept of “routines” is used to classify diverse enterprise application systems (EAS) into a framework. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the theoretical underpinnings…

Information and communications technology adoption and use in small and medium businesses: The influence of Hispanic ethnicity

Karen L. Middleton, Kent Byus

The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of Hispanic ethnicity on the adoption and use of information and communication technology (ICT) tools by small‐ and…

Extending the “size matters” debate: Drivers of training in three business process outsourcing SMEs in India

Ashish Malik, Venkataraman Nilakant

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that influence training decision making in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India's IT‐enabled business process…

The challenges for sustainable skills development in the UK automotive supply sector: Policy and implementation

Keith Bevis

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for sustainable learning that can be used to target training resources more effectively. The focus is the automotive supplier chain…

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh