Management Research Review: Volume 42 Issue 8

Management consulting: a review of fifty years of scholarly research

Corrado Cerruti, Ernesto Tavoletti, Cecilia Grieco

Academic research on management consulting or having management consultancy as the main research field is huge as the sector is a strategic one for management innovation, but a…

Reviewing the “Valley of Death” between management research and management practice: Towards a reorienting of paradigm assumptions in management science

Jesús De Frutos-Belizón, Fernando Martín-Alcázar, Gonzalo Sánchez-Gardey

The knowledge generated by academics in the field of management is often criticized because of its reduced relevance for professionals. In the review of the literature, the…

Business schools’ competitive strategies: whose goals, which aims?

Anu M. Ojala

This study reviews the literature on business-school (b-school) competition and competitiveness to extend our understanding of b-schools’ competitive strategies.

Promoting work engagement in the hotel sector: review and analysis

Sunyoung Park, Karen R. Johnson, Sanghamitra Chaudhuri

Using the job demands-resources (JD-R) model as a theoretical framework, the purpose of this study is to identify antecedents of work engagement in the hotel sector through an…

Leadership styles and workplace ostracism among frontline employees

Irsa Kanwal, Rab Nawaz Lodhi, Muhammad Kashif

The purpose of this study is to examine critical associations of transformational leadership, Laissez-faire leadership, transactional leadership, and authoritative leadership…

Recruitment of local human resources and its effect on foreign subsidiaries in Japan

Manami Suzuki, Naoki Ando, Hidehiko Nishikawa

This paper aims to investigate three different orientations of recruitment (profession-sensitive, language-sensitive and interculture-sensitive recruitment) and their effect on…