Management Decision: Volume 46 Issue 4

Designing a generic model for outsourcing process in public sector: evidence of Iran

Ali Rajabzadeh, Ali Asghar Anvary Rostamy, Ali Hosseini

The purpose of this paper is to describe the outsourcing process in the public sector, determine the effective factors involved in this process and their priorities. The aim is to…

Operational restructuring: reviving an ailing business

Beixin Lin, Zu‐Hsu Lee, Lance G. Gibbs

When firms are dealing with negative earnings and/or economic downturns, operational restructuring is often initiated as a rescue tool. Some firms recover and prevail, while the…

Conjoining prescriptive and descriptive approaches: Towards an integrative framework of decision making. A conceptual note

George Panagiotou

Despite the level of knowledge that has been accumulated over the years on the intricacies of decision making and strategy development there have been no attempts in the…

Implementing 5S within a Japanese context: an integrated management system

Rod Gapp, Ron Fisher, Kaoru Kobayashi

Building on previous studies of the managerial application and development of the 5S concept (5S), this research aims to identify and present key concepts of 5S from a Japanese…

Analysis of social information as a measure of the ethical behavior of Spanish firms

Isabel Gallego‐Alvarez

The purpose of this paper is to verify empirically how some Spanish firms present their social information with regard to labor practices, human rights, society, and product…

Theories, concepts and the Rugby World Cup: using management to understand sport

Andy Adcroft, Jon Teckman

The aim of this paper is to consider the versatility of management theory by testing it in a non‐management context, in this case sport in general and the Rugby World Cup in…

The relationships between the characteristics of the strategy process: evidence from Egypt

Said Elbanna, Hassan Younies

Strategy process research has made considerable progress over the last 20 years and has produced a vast body of literature. This valuable contribution, however, has not adequately…

Decision magnitude of impact and strategic decision‐making process output: The mediating impact of rationality of the decision‐making process

Mahmood Nooraie

The purpose of this paper is to identify the role of the rationality of the strategic decision‐making process between decision magnitude of impact and the quality of the decision…

Multiple‐objective bidding strategy using goal programming technique

Yongtao Tan, Liyin Shen, Weisheng Lu, Qiping Shen

This paper aims to provide a solution that allows a contractor to present its maximum competitiveness in meeting the multiple objectives defined by a project client in bidding for…

Grande Expectations: a Year in the Life of Starbucks' Stock

Graham Cole

Special issue on Common sense and other decision influences