Management Decision: Volume 38 Issue 4

The need for global managers: a business necessity

Mary Beth Stanek

Multinational corporations need to recognize the importance of international management development. Formal human resource programs, tied to business objectives, need to be…

The NetOffer model: a case example from the virtual marketspace

Christian Grönroos, Fredrik Heinonen, Kristina Isoniemi, Michael Lindholm

Contributes to the development of a model of Internet offerings, labelled the NetOffer model, by analysing data from an Internet‐based case, cinema ticket sales on the Internet…

Organisational learning – it’s just routine

David Tranfield, Joanne Duberley, Stuart Smith, Gillian Musson, Paul Stokes

Reports research into how the organisational learning process can be routinised. Three sets of enabling routines and four sets of defensive routines are identified which are core…

The oath of management

M.L. Emiliani

Compares the management profession with the medical profession, in particular examining the Hippocratic oath. Suggests that as managers are the physicians of business, they should…

Merger activity: solutions to Japan’s economic downturn?

Janet Morrison, David Floyd

Economic downturn in Japan has brought about an urgent need for Japanese companies to restructure. Throughout the postwar period of economic growth corporate Japan has been…

The business of memes: memetic possibilities for marketing and management

Russell Williams

Introduces the business community to the new science of memes. The roots of the meme concept from Richard Dawkins’ original work in the area of biology to the social (business…

Toward a conceptual framework of employee volunteerism: an aid for the human resource manager

Gary D. Geroy, Philip C. Wright, Laura Jacoby

The purpose of the research is to provide HR managers with some guidance, as they develop employee volunteer programs to meet specific workforce needs. Structured interviews were…

Networking for marketing advantage

Cheryl Dennis

States that networking theories have attracted increasing attention during the 1990s – although the network concept is certainly not new. Looks at the computer industry in…

The effectiveness of risk management: measuring what didn’t happen

John F. McGrew, John G. Bilotta

Two of the most common reasons for not implementing a risk management program are cost and benefit. This paper focuses on whether the benefits of intervention can be shown to…