Management Decision: Volume 40 Issue 1

An exploratory study of Hofstede’s cross‐cultural dimensions in construction projects

Low Sui Pheng, Shi Yuquan

Singaporean construction firms have increasingly invested in China in recent years. It is, therefore, important for Singaporean construction firms as well as their Chinese…

The role of the business excellence model in operational and strategic decision making

Denis Leonard, Rodney McAdam

The aim of this paper is to determine current management thinking on how the business excellence model (BEM) is used within organisations. In many cases when organisational change…

Strategic sourcing: benefits, problems and a contextual model

David Jennings

This paper reviews the strategic benefits and problems relating to the outsourcing decision. These include issues of cost, quality, flexibility, strategic focus, leverage and…

Implementing NAGPRA: the effective management of legislated change in museums

Morris Abraham, Tim Sullivan, Des Griffin

A survey of 19 museums across the USA sought to identify the change processes associated with the effective management of a specific case of legislated change imposed by The…

Do organisational routines in manufacturing inform contracting choices in distribution?

Nicholas Wilson, Hao Zhang

This paper explores the implications of the capabilities‐based framework in the context of a decision for a firm: whether or not to outsource the sales function to outside…

Using modular neural networks for business decisions

David Mitchell, Robert Pavur

Understanding large amounts of information and efficiently using that information in improved decision making has become increasingly challenging as businesses collect terabytes…

Quantitative and qualitative decision‐making methods in simulation modelling

Tillal Eldabi, Zahir Irani, Ray J. Paul, Peter E.D. Love

Discrete event simulation (DES) is widely known to be a quantitative research tool. A simulation modelling process is mainly based on feeding quantitative data into a model to…

Heresies to orthodoxies: organizational renewal in Australia 1966‐1996

Andrew Griffiths, Dexter Dunphy

This paper traces the emergence of a social movement that has attempted to transform the fundamental character of organizations in Australia. Unlike many other such social…

The misplaced origin of just‐in‐time production methods

Peter B. Petersen

Just‐in‐time (JIT) production methods were popularized by the excellent results achieved by Japanese industry. When it became evident during the 1970s that the Japanese were…

A historical examination of employee entitlement

Stefanie E. Naumann, Barbara D. Minsky, Michael C. Sturman

There has been much debate about people’s perceptions of entitlement. We trace the history of the different uses of entitlement perceptions across fields in order to develop a…