Management Decision: Volume 38 Issue 9

Knowledge management: strategy or software?

Alan J. Beckett, Charles E.R. Wainwright, David Bance

Knowledge management is a rapidly growing, and rapidly changing discipline. While the link between knowledge assets and competitive advantage has been accepted for some time, it…

Changing the management mindset: management style and coping with world‐class competition

Philip C. Wright, W.F. Szeto, Gary D. Geory

Using the Chinese, family‐owned manufacturing firm as a primary example, Asian styles of management are examined in light of their ability to compete in a free‐trade environment…

The false promise of “what gets measured gets managed”

M.L. Emiliani

Discusses the importance of precise communication as a prerequisite to achieving alignment between internal and external stakeholders. Consideration is given to popular management…

Choose an HR star for competitive edge

Barbara Whitaker Shimko, Marshall S. Swift

Because of the volatile business environment, organizations are in a state of unprecedented change, which numerous observers have called chaos. Under current, unstable, perhaps…

Organizational consumerism: the appropriation of packaged managerial knowledge

Chris Carter, David Crowther

Many academics have highlighted the emergence of programmed change initiatives such as TQM and BPR and have chronicled how “seductive” these ideas appear to have been in the…

Cultural control: the case of Japanese multinational companies and their subsidiaries in the UK

Dimitrios S. Kranias

Although the concept of culture as a means of control seems to be rather vague and ambiguous, no one can deny its importance, especially in the case of the Japanese multinational…

Anatomy of a merger: behavior of organizational factors and processes throughout the pre‐ during‐ post‐stages (part 1)

Steven H. Appelbaum, Joy Gandell, Harry Yortis, Shay Proper, Francois Jobin

The multiple organizational factors impacting on a merger as well as those processes being impacted on throughout the merger process will be examined. First, the issue of constant…

Brands and brand equity: definition and management

Lisa Wood

This article assumes that brands should be managed as valuable, long‐term corporate assets. It is proposed that for a true brand asset mindset to be achieved, the relationship…