Management Decision: Volume 34 Issue 7

Localized marketing strategies and the Bible of international business

A.H. Walle

Notes that the New Testament provides a classic case of international marketing strategies in conflict, as well as clues to modern international management. Looks at the…

Strategic effectiveness and success: the learning challenge

John L. Thompson

Reinforces the argument that strategic and competitive success demands competence at three levels: content, change and learning. Notes that to achieve this, organizations must…

Decision making during organizational change: observations on disjointed incrementalism in an Australian local government authority

Robert Jones, Michael Gross

Examines the nature of managerial decision making during the process of a programme of workplace reform at a major local government authority in New South Wales, Australia. Draws…

Paradigm shift: a new perspective involving analogical thinking

Tony Proctor

Notes that paradigms have life cycles and prove increasingly expensive and less effective as they near the end of their life cycles. The process of paradigm shift can be…

Industry turbulence and information technology structure: an empirical investigation

Zeinab A. Karake

Examines ‐ in a study involving 92 large publicly‐held organizations ‐ the relationships between information technology (IT) structure, control and industry turbulence. Notes that…

Searching for an effective measure of R&D performance

Vittorio Chiesa, Christina Masella

Notes that measurement of R&D performance has always posed great problems due to the nature of R&D activity and the difficulties in identifying a tangible output. Also that…

No such thing as … information resource management

Alistair Mutch

Argues that concepts such as information resource management have more to do with data than information. Notes that this has the impact of distracting from the central issue of…