Management Decision: Volume 40 Issue 9

Developing personal responsibility and leadership traits in all your employees: part 2 – optimally shaping and harmonizing focus, will and capability

Peter A.C. Smith, Meenakshi Sharma

Proposes that to optimize enterprise performance and longevity organizations must develop and sustain appropriate traits of personal responsibility and leadership in all…

Added value, enterprise value and competitive advantage

David Walters, Michael Halliday, Stan Glaser

This paper attempts to answer the questions raised in a previous paper by the authors (“Creating value in the ‘new economy”’, Management Decision, Vol. 40 No. 8) which dealt with…

The Godfather theory of management: an exercise in power and control

James T. Scarnati

The Godfather theory of management is a power and control model of leadership. Explains a process whereby leaders can move a dysfunctional and subversive organization into the…

Strategic risk analysis – a field version

Jan Emblemsvåg, Lars Endre Kjølstad

Most people agree that preparing for the future is necessary to excel, but doing it effectively is difficult. All risk analyses offer some foresight, but tools based on classic…

Strategic planning in SMEs – some empirical findings

George Stonehouse, Jonathan Pemberton

Strategic frameworks and tools of analysis have been the subject of much academic debate over the last 20 years. This paper reviews the main approaches to strategic management…

Management decision making and ethics: practices, skills and preferences

Rosalie Holian

This article summarises the findings from a study of practising managers which explored experiences of and views on decision making about actual ethical issues in organisations…

The limits of globalization – legal and political issues in e‐commerce

Jedrzej George Frynas

This article analyses some of the most important political and legal challenges faced by internationally operating Internet firms today. In addition to dealing with an important…

Management history as told by popular culture: the screen image of the efficiency expert

Mordecai Lee

This exploration of management history focuses on mass entertainment media to determine the history of the efficiency expert in popular culture. It reviews the history of the…

Analyzing the historical development of the environmental uncertainty construct

Patrick Kreiser, Louis Marino

The concept of environmental uncertainty is recognized as a fundamental element of the strategic management and organizational theory literature. Unfortunately, the development of…

The foundations of Henri Fayol’s administrative theory

Daniel A. Wren, Arthur G. Bedeian, John D. Breeze

Among modern scholars and students there is an increasing distance between the fundamental thoughts of early management writers and contemporary, often secondary, accounts of how…