Management Decision: Volume 46 Issue 6

Small creative industry firms: a development dilemma?

Ian Chaston

The purpose of the paper is to examine whether the standard support service intervention model of providing training programmes to stimulate business growth is an effective…

Charisma as a cognitive‐affective phenomenon: a follower‐centric approach

J.A.S.K. Jayakody

The intention of this paper is to conceptualize charisma as a multidimensional, cognitive‐affective phenomenon for the reason that the current practice of conceptualization and…

Stakeholder management and path dependence in organizational transitions

Juha‐Antti Lamberg, Kalle Pajunen, Petri Parvinen, Grant T. Savage

The purpose of this paper is to offer an explanatory process model of stakeholder management. The model shows how and why path dependence is manifested in stakeholder management…

Identification and management of high‐potential professional services

Anssi Smedlund

In professional services, innovation occurs in the delivery. The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for classifying innovation in professional services by taking into…

New directions for the biopharma industry in Canada: modelling and empirical findings

Isidre March‐Chorda, Rosa M. Yagüe‐Perales

The main purpose of this study is to identify features and trends shaping the business models currently prevailing in the Canadian biopharma industry, by disaggregating the…

The “strategy frame” and the four Es of strategy drivers

Azaddin Salem Khalifa

There is vast literature and widely different views on strategy. This necessitates an organizing framework that smoothly integrates and places different conceptualizations of…

A decision‐maker‐centred supplier selection approach for critical supplies

Guido J.L Micheli

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the supplier selection issue as a way to mitigate the overall supply risk, through the proposition of a new approach which is as…

Job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB): Does team commitment make a difference in self‐directed teams?

David A. Foote, Thomas Li‐Ping Tang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a model in which team commitment in self‐directed teams moderates the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational citizenship…

The expanding role of intangible assets of the brand

Suraksha Gupta, Susan Grant, T.C. Melewar

The objective of this paper is to highlight the human representatives of the brand (brand relationship representatives), as an important enabler in achieving effective supply…

Enterprise and Small Business: Principles, Practice and Policy (2nd ed.)

Nnamdi O. Madichie

Special issue on Common sense and other decision influences