Management Decision: Volume 48 Issue 8

Adaption‐innovation theory and knowledge use in organizations

Michael A. Chilton, James M. Bloodgood

The purpose of this paper is to explore how an individual's cognitive style influences the type of knowledge they prefer to work with, and to identify how this relationship…

Downsizing implementation and financial performance

Fernando Muñoz‐Bullon, Maria J. Sanchez‐Bueno

The objective of this paper is to analyze whether the way that downsizing is implemented has any impact on the firm's performance.

R&D tax credit and operating performance: implications for managers

Asokan Anandarajan, Shuling Chiang, Picheng Lee

This paper aims to focus on helping managers understand a factor that stimulates investment in R&D, namely, the R&D tax credit.

Economic, social and institutional conditions of network governance: Network governance in East Asia

Woojin Yoon, Eunjung Hyun

This paper intends to discuss the effect of social and institutional mechanisms in allowing network governance embedded in non‐contractual and social relations to emerge and…

New high‐tech venturing as process of resource accumulation

Edwin Lin, Tom M.Y. Lin, Bou‐Wen Lin

The purpose of this research is to explore, through the lens of a resource‐based view and dynamic capability theory, how new ventures in high‐technology industries accumulate…

Competing against online sharing

Ramon Casadesus‐Masanell, Andres Hervas‐Drane

This paper aims to explore online sharing of copyrighted content over peer‐to‐peer (p2p) file sharing networks and its impact on the music industry, and to assess the viable…

Individual choice or institutional practice: Which guides the technology transfer decision‐making process?

Steven Tello, Scott Latham, Valerie Kijewski

This paper aims to examine the degree to which individual technology transfer officers' heuristics and biases, as well as peer technology transfer institutions' practices…

Competitive strategy, structure and firm performance: A comparison of the resource‐based view and the contingency approach

Eva M. Pertusa‐Ortega, José F. Molina‐Azorín, Enrique Claver‐Cortés

Decisions about the design of the organization and the competitive strategy of a firm are very important in order to gain competitive advantage and to improve firm performance…

Auditing employee ownership in a neo‐liberal world

P. Reeves Knyght, Alexander Kouzmin, Nada K. Kakabadse, Andrew P. Kakabadse

Employee ownership has attracted much attention across the globe. Whether affected by the global financial crisis (GFC), or not, this paper seeks to canvass what is known about…

Global Marketing Management

Nmamdi Madichie

Directors. An A‐Z Guide

Marta Peris‐Ortiz, Fernando J. Peris Bonet