Management Decision: Volume 37 Issue 3

Business strategy in new high‐tech ventures: an empirical analysis

I.C. March, A. Gunasekaran

The aim of this study is to determine the existence of specific and unique features characterising markets, activities and customers in at least two of the most representative…

When giants collide: strategic analysis and application

Ed Chung, Cam McLarney

On June 4, 1942, a small US naval force defeated a much bigger Japanese fleet off Midway Island. This was the first defeat suffered by the heretofore invincible Japanese military…

Marketing and operations management: an integrated approach to new ways of delivering value

David Walters

The respective roles of marketing and operations management in contributing to effective strategy are considered. This article considers both the technological developments and…

Creation and preemption for competitive advantage

Hao Ma

Competitive advantage arises from the differential among firms along any dimension of firm attributes and characteristics that allows one firm to better create customer value than…

Correlates of adjustment: a study of expatriate managers in an emerging country

Ugur Yavas, Muzaffer Bodur

To minimize adverse consequences associated with expatriation, multinational companies need to identify the factors which facilitate (or impede) expatriate managers adjustment to…

The interactive effects of strategic planning on hotel performance: a neural network analysis

Paul Phillips, Fiona Davies, Luiz Moutinho

This paper uses a neural network to analyse the interactive effects of strategic planning on hotel performance. Based on the data collected from 100 hotel units the constructs of…

Developing a community image program: an essential function of business communication

Barron Wells, Nelda Spinks

Developing and implementing a successful community image program is an organizational communication activity of utmost importance. No organization survives for long in a community…

Excellence in client/server information system implementations: understanding the STS connection

C. Bruce Kavan, Margaret T. O’Hara, Edward C. Patterson, Robert P. Bostrom

This paper uses the Socio‐Technical Systems (STS) model as a conceptual framework to explore client/server information system implementations, and demonstrates the logical…