Management Decision: Volume 35 Issue 10

Global behaviour, unique responses: consumption within cultural frameworks

A.H. Walle

Increasingly, product managers and promotional strategists weigh the impacts of homogeneous products and uniform promotion coupled with the unique character of specific market…

Developing and implementing value‐based strategy

David Walters

Proposes an approach for implementing value‐based management expectations into strategic and operational management activities. Also considers issues concerning marketing and…

Performance learning

Peter A.C. Smith

Describes a new methodology “outcomes‐driven performance learning and development” (performance learning or PL) which addresses shortcomings often evident in the practice of…

TQM, BPR, JIT, BSCs and TLAs: managerial waves or drownings?

Keith Grint

Suggests that the progress made towards the acquisition of quality through TQM, ISO 9000, BPR, BSCs (balanced score cards) and all the other related TLAs (three letter acronyms…

Output sub‐optimization in the small firm

Alan Hankinson

Examines output determination in a sample of 50 small engineering firms with up to 100 employees in the Hampshire, Sussex, Dorset and Wiltshire region during 1992‐1997…

Revitalizing TQM efforts: a self‐reflective diagnosis based on the theory of constraints

T.M. Simatupang, S.F. Hurley, A.N. Evans

Product quality is merely a necessary condition for a firm to stay in the market. Yet most managers have not accepted this perceived reality. Highlights a self‐reflective…

Organizational choice and organizational change

Bernard Burnes

Follows on from and develops the arguments presented in an earlier Management Decision article ‐ “No such thing as ... a ‘one best way’ to manage organizational change” (Burnes…

A historical perspective of Japanese innovation

Paul Herbig, Laurence Jacobs

Japan’s economic success has been based primarily on social innovation. Western technology was accepted and used in institutions which retained their pure Japanese culture. Covers…

No such thing as … scientific management

D. Philip Carney, Russell Williams

Classical (rationalistic) management science is based on an image of what constitutes scientific practice. However, the arena from which this image emanates has moved on quite…