Management Decision: Volume 37 Issue 7

Strategic downsizing: critical success factors

Steven H. Appelbaum, Andrea Everard, Loretta T. S. Hung

Aims to review the literature pertaining to downsizing with an emphasis on the organization level, and establish the critical success factors of downsizing, that is, guidelines to…

Design and implementation of self‐directed process teams

Mohsen Attaran, Tai T. Nguyen

Human resources are the most important asset of any organization. Yet most organizations continue to arrange their people in work patterns that inhibit and limit their employees’…

Embedded systems and the year‐2000 problem (the other year‐2000 problem)

Mark A. Frautschi

In the context of the “year‐2000” problem, focuses on the risk involved in real time clocks and their interactions with associated embedded processors and logic arrays, dedicated…

Relationship marketing as an ethical approach: philosophical and managerial considerations

Stella G. Kavali, Nikolaos X. Tzokas, Michael J. Saren

As the thoughts and actions of marketers focus on the philosophy of relationship marketing (RM), the purpose of this paper is to broaden our understanding of the concept for its…

Rule breaking and a new opportunistic managerialism

Ann P. Young

An examination of managerial rule breaking is potentially significant in times of rapid change where advantages have to be gained through flexibility and the effective use of…