Management Decision: Volume 38 Issue 6

Business ethics in the European Union: a study of Greek attitudes

Spero C. Peppas, George J. Peppas

Globalization and economic integration have focused attention on the topic of ethics in international management. At a time when the European Union is attempting to harmonize…

The stakeholder manager

Gerald Vinten

All managers and directors are faced with real, or imagined, conflicts of interest or competing demands for time and resources, between shareholders and stakeholders. This has…

The cost of capital for projects: conceptual and practical issues

Ronald C. Anderson, Steven S. Byers, John C. Groth

Examines how individual projects will affect the organization’s stated desire to “add value” by its operations, particularly how the market will judge each project on this basis…

The technology, mythology and economy of technology

Kazem Chaharbaghi, Robert Willis

Although technology has always been, and will continue to be, the hallmark of human activity, it remains a poorly understood concept. There is little recognition that behind…

The role of communication in business relationships and networks

Rami Olkkonen, Henrikki Tikkanen, Kimmo Alajoutsijärvi

Owing to the strong position of traditional marketing communications (especially advertising) research and consumer marketing related theories in the general field of marketing…

What happened is prologue: creative divergence and corporate culture fabrication

Carolan McLarney, Edward Chung

Culture is an overarching phenomenon that helps individuals make sense of their world. However, culture is not an unchanging “given.” Members of a society actively create culture…

Virtual organisations: new lamps for old

David Walters

The literature contains an ongoing debate concerning virtual or boundaryless organisations. This article suggests that virtual/boundaryless organisations are a logical…

Power Plays: Shakespeare’s Lessons in Leadership and Management

Michael Egan

Managing the Church? Order and Organization in a Secular Age

Gerald Vinten