Management Decision: Volume 29 Issue 5

Understanding Corporate Collapse

E. Alan Buttery, Mark A. Shadur

Many of the recent cases of corporate collapse might have beenavoided had company leaders been in a position to interpret the earlysigns of collapse. Existing financial models…

Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship amongst MBA Graduates

Carol Oliver, Sandra Pass, Jayne Taylor, Pamela Taylor

A questionnaire‐based survey of a business school′s MBA graduatesdraws conclusions on their entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial leanings.The authors suggest that specific…

Managing Working Capital Crises – A System Dynamics Approach

M.K. Kolay

The article analyses the “pros” and “cons”of different strategies to be adopted to manage and avoid workingcapital crisis situations in any organisation. The working…

Effective Delegation

Matthew W. Hind

Effective delegation often fails, due to a misunderstanding aboutthe difference between responsibility and accountability. Added to thismany of the key management processes…

Every Boss has a Style

Thad B. Green, Jay T. Knippen

A prescriptive article which covers understanding the style of yoursuperior, and changing your own behaviour to better fit that style.

The Internal Marketing of Services: The New Age Surge

Aubrey Wilson

Internal marketing in itself is not new, but is only recentlybecoming widespread in public and private sector organisations. Whilstthe principles of internal and external…

A Model for Customer‐Supplier Alliances

John O. Burdett

International competition, the rapid pace of technologicaldevelopment, the escalating cost of research and development, truncatedshelf life, the ability through information…

The Measurement of Group Process and Effectiveness in Educational and Work Settings

David K. Banner, Helen LaVan, David Drehmer

What is the best way to formulate a task group for optimalparticipation? Four hypotheses, which could affect a group processinteraction are tested by a survey of MBA students. The…

Managerial Responsibility: The Re‐emergence of the Corporate Conscience

Gary A. Maddux

The author propounds that management carries a responsibility– to employees and suppliers as well as customers. Respectis seen as the key relationship variable. In this it is…

Competruism: Strategic Implications

Bruce Gunn

The rising conflict in the global village indicates thatsecond‐wave ideologies which promote competition, greed andself‐interest must be replaced with a third‐wave doctrine…