Management Decision: Volume 35 Issue 9

Management duckspeak

Stan Glaser

Argues that much management terminology is, in George Orwell’s words, “duckspeak”, nonsensical noises which have nothing to do with business issues, and which debase and block out…

Are you managing your vinyl effectively?

Lesley A. King

All organizations produce, use and disseminate their own information during the course of their business, but most organizations do not manage this internal information very…

SMMEs’ challenges in reconstructing South Africa

J.C. Visagie

South Africa’s entry into the 1990s was dramatic. Change has become a reality and change always implies both opportunities and threats. The new government’s Reconstruction and…

Leadership as vision

Tony Morden

Contends that in addition to the role of leadership as a fundamental organizational competence, leadership may be defined in terms of vision and shared values. Vision is…

Success through service

Philip Anthony Holden

An organization must provide total customer satisfaction, if it is to become a market leader. However, many organizations only provide lip service to this “blindingly obvious”…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/00251749710173760. When citing the…

Competitive strategies and business performance: evidence from the adhesives and sealants industry

Marilyn M. Helms, Clay Dibrell, Peter Wright

Synthesizes the contributions of a number of scholars on competitive strategies. Discusses several imperfections in the literature. Submits three propositions for empirical…