Management Decision: Volume 48 Issue 2

Knowledge creation and business format franchising

Arto Lindblom, Henrikki Tikkanen

This article aims to contribute to the study of knowledge creation and management in business format franchising by focusing on the question of how franchisors can convert the…

Purchasing professional services: which decision criteria?

Mahmut Sonmez, Andy Moorhouse

The aim of this paper is to report the findings of a global survey on decision criteria used and the importance attached to these criteria when purchasing professional services…

Optimal decision making on urban renewal projects

Yi‐Kai Juan, Kathy O. Roper, Daniel Castro‐Lacouture, Jun Ha Kim

The aim of this paper is to present a systematic approach to provide decision makers in the Taipei City Government and private developers with an opportunity to review their…

Improved capital budgeting decision making: evidence from Canada

Karim Bennouna, Geoffrey G. Meredith, Teresa Marchant

The purpose of this article is to evaluate current techniques in capital budget decision making in Canada, including real options, and to integrate the results with similar…

The augmented subjective risk management process

Jan Emblemsvåg

This paper aims to present an augmented subjective risk management process that can partially solve the problem of inconsistent results in qualitative risk management. Note that…

Environmental scanning: Dynamism with rack and stack from Rasch model

Juan Ramón Oreja‐Rodríguez, Vanessa Yanes‐Estévez

This paper aims to propose a method for the longitudinal analysis of the environment considering both firms' and environmental variables.

Importance‐performance analysis for public management decision making: An empirical study of China's Macao special administrative region

Linda S.L. Lai, W.M. To

This paper aims to explore the use of importance‐performance analysis (IPA) as an evaluative technique for public management decision making.

A multi‐criteria model for bidding evaluation: An alternative selection of the best firms for the presentation of Istanbul 2010

Seyhan Sipahi, Oner Esen

The purpose of this paper is to provide a multi‐criteria bidding evaluation model based on Istanbul 2010 PR selection problem to strike a balance among conflicting criteria and to…

Ownership structure, corporate diversification and capital structure: Evidence from China's publicly listed firms

Larry D. Su

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether, and to what extent, corporate diversification into related and unrelated businesses affects capital structure choices, and…

Leadership Teams: Developing and Sustaining High Performance

Bruce W. Tuckman