Management Decision: Volume 32 Issue 4

The Real Strategic Issues versus Organizational Bureaucracy and Administrative Neatness

Nigel F. Piercy

Accuses management of repeatedly substituting bureaucracy and complexreporting and control systems for the things that really matter tocompetitive success. It is claimed that all…

Understanding the Causes of Business Failure Crises: Generic Failure Types: Boiled Frogs, Drowned Frogs, Bullfrogs and Tadpoles

Bill Richardson, Sonny Nwankwo, Susan Richardson

Addresses the issue of business failure. Identifies different types ofbusiness failure and provides a framework for further research into thisaspect of strategic management. Draws…

The Technology of Creativity

Harry Alder

Reviews the advances in creative thinking since De Bono′s LateralThinking, including work on brain hemispheres, with particular referenceto practical techniques that can be…

Intelligent Computer Models for Marketing Decisions

Bruce Curry, Luiz Moutinho

Describes work carried out at Cardiff Business School, University ofWales, to investigate the scope for applying Artificial Intelligence(AI) techniques in the field of management…

Assessing the Status of Marketing in Architectural Service Firms

Robert E. Morgan, Susan K. Foreman, Tony C.C. Poh

For the last five years, the UK construction industry has been plaguedwith problems of market demand, sources of finance, escalating costs,and supplier saturation. One of the most…

US Organizations’ Response to AIDS in the Workplace: : A Review and Suggestions for Managers

John P. Kohl, Alan N. Miller

Since first identified in June 1981, 315,390 cases of AIDS have beenreported in the United States and 194,354 Americans have died of thedisease, as of 30 June 1993. Worldwide…

Cost Management and Value Creation

John C. Groth, Michael R. Kinney

The value of a company is a function of many variables. Costs are ofspecial importance since managers can influence costs. Success at costmanagement has a phenomenal effect on…

Management Considerations

Ronald M. Godfrey

Management is not always professional in all its attitudes and actionsand has often been – and still is – inadequate in some aspects. It isuseful for managers at all levels…

Meeting Is Such Sweet Sorrow

Ken Matejka, Ramona Julian

Meetings are not a magic elixir! Some meetings are worthwhile. Somemeetings are a waste of time. Some meetings should never have been held.Employs humour and wit to show how…