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This chapter takes the major themes emerging from the two academic chapters on beer communities and discusses these with a rural craft ‘nano’ brewer in Fife, Scotland. The discussion touches on the value of online communities for learning to brew and advertising to customers. However, this is tempered with a realisation of the divide between the homebrewing education community and the commercial necessities of running a small brewery, and the limited value of glossy Instagram photos to smaller brewers in selling their craft beer. This chapter reinforces the importance of localism and face to face selling for nanobrewers, and the value of establishing symbiotic relationships with other local producers and sellers.

This article aims to draw on analysis of embodied plays in the game of association football to show the central significance of embodied spatial competence.

The paper is descriptive and theoretical.

Describes the special skills of unusually talented performers like dancers and midfield soccer players who appear to understand embodied movement in three-dimensions, and considers whether these attributes are transferable to business decision making.

No original research is reported but suggestions for areas of further study are made.

If senior managers were able to learn such skills, the practice of strategy formulation and review could be better understood as embodied rather than as embrained.

Developing strategy as performance could enhance organisational competence.

These concepts have not previously been applied in organisational analysis.

The purpose of this paper is to clarify and re‐position the debate on the role of women in employment in the Arab Middle East by drawing on the findings of empirical research to critique the paradigm of “neo‐patriarchy” defined by Sharabi and used uncritically by others.

A review of the literature on neo‐patriarchy is followed by some findings from an empirical study of 197 women in the Jordanian labour market, from a sample drawn on a population basis.

The findings indicate generally positive attitudes towards the employment of women and to the involvement of husbands in employment decisions, and to a slight preference on the part of managers for women as employees.

These findings need to be supplemented by more intensive studies in work situations and by case‐studies of specific employment sites.

The attitudes of women in Jordan are in general positive towards employment and policy is evolving accordingly.

These findings point to the limitations of the “neo‐patriarchy” discourse and to the likelihood that the employment situations of women in Jordan do not need to be characterized by the discourse of under‐development and traditionalism.

This chapter aims to outline some reasons for the lack of impact of CMS with the intention of provoking debate and inciting action.

The approach is that of an essay, in which argument verges on the polemic.

Refers to public domain knowledge and evidence is adduced rather than cited precisely.

No original field research is introduced, though anecdotal evidence is cited.

The practical implications if the argument in this chapter is accepted could involve a wholesale revision of syllabi and content in business education.

The central argument is that scholarship exists not only in its own right but as a basis for credentialising social action and establishing societal priorities in pursuit of the Good Society.

Very little is new that has not been said before and not listened to.

Provides an summary of the workshop and discussions held by Management Decision at the 2005 Academy of Management annual conference.

Reports on the discussions that took place amongst the four work groups on the following subjects: qualitative versus quantitative methodologies, encouraging research from developing nations and practitioner authors, the value of history in management and how publishers can solve the main headaches for researchers.

Journal and institutional rankings are playing an increasingly important part in academic life. This has both positive and negative implications.

Provides information about issues that are important to the scholarly community and encourages authors, readers and anyone else involved in research to contribute their thoughts and opinions.