Management Decision: Volume 35 Issue 3

Stop analysing and start thinking: the importance of good thinking skills in a value‐managed company

Denis B. Kilroy, Michael T. McKinley

The last 15 years or so have seen the emergence of a powerful management philosophy known as value‐based management (VBM). The premiss underlying this philosophy is that…

Technology transfer through acquisition

Anthony F. Buono

Presents a case study of an intervention in a technology‐based acquisition. Conceptualizing the technology transfer process as the integrated movement of people, capabilities and…

Of chaos and complexity: managerial insights from a new science

Michael R. Lissack

Notes that as interest in the study of complex systems has grown, a new vocabulary is emerging to describe discoveries about wide‐ranging and fundamental phenomena. Argues that a…

Robust strategies in a day

David Mercer

As a development from previous work on “simpler scenarios”, a format has now been devised which allows the complete scenario planning process, from start of environmental analysis…

Capital input and total productivity management

Alan Stainer

Provides an overview of total productivity, in definition, measurement and management. Discusses the challenges of evaluating input and output factors, highlighting the basis of…

Self‐managed work teams approach: creative management tool or a fad?

Dean Elmuti

The introduction of employee empowerment through a self‐managed work teams programme into an organization further requires the introduction of multifaceted changes in person‐job…

A strategic evaluation of re‐engineering, restructuring, delayering and downsizing policies as flawed paradigm

Tony Morden

The purpose is to carry out a strategic evaluation of re‐engineering, restructuring, delayering and downsizing as an influential management paradigm. Contends that this…

Capital investment analysis for managers

Steven S. Byers, John C. Groth, R. Malcolm Richards, Marilyn K. Wiley

Briefly describes the nature and importance of capital investments and why managers of all functional areas should understand the basics of analysis. Reviews conceptual issues…