Management Decision: Volume 49 Issue 1

Value management in the South African manufacturing industry: exploratory findings

Paul Bowen, Keith Cattell, Ian Jay, Peter Edwards

This paper seeks to investigate the nature and extent of value management (VM) practice in the South African manufacturing industry. It aims to explore engineers' and designers'…

Small businesses in the new creative industries: innovation as a people management challenge

Sabine Hotho, Katherine Champion

This paper seeks to present findings from an SME case study situated in the computer games industry, the youngest and fastest growing of the new digital industries. The study aims…

Innovation or imitation? The role of organizational culture

Julia C. Naranjo‐Valencia, Daniel Jiménez‐Jiménez, Raquel Sanz‐Valle

Innovation is crucial for attaining a competitive advantage for companies. Innovation, versus imitation, motivates companies to launch new products and become pioneers on markets…

Towards an innovation‐type mapping tool

Jennifer Rowley, Anahita Baregheh, Sally Sambrook

Seeking to distil and integrate a range of previous definitions, models, frameworks and classifications relating to types of innovation, this paper aims to make a contribution to…

Strategic resources and firm performance

Jim Andersén

Numerous studies have set out to examine the relationship between strategic resources and firm performance. The traditional VRIO attributes have been the point of departure in…

From Levitt to the global age: one more time, how do we define our business?

Jorge A. Vasconcellos e Sá, Fátima Olão, Magda Pereira

Several works have focused on defining an organisation mission. Ansoff, Levitt and Drucker, among others, have made seminal contributions. However, globalisation has brought new…

Do downsizing decisions affect organisational knowledge and performance?

Helen Sitlington, Verena Marshall

This study seeks to examine the impact of downsizing and restructuring decisions and processes on perceptions of organisational knowledge and effectiveness after downsizing and…

Strategic capabilities, competitive strategy, and performance among retailers in Argentina, Peru and the United States

John A. Parnell

This paper aims to assess the influence of strategic capabilities on the business strategy‐performance relationship among retail businesses in Argentina, Peru, and the USA.

Environment, management attitude, and organizational learning in alliances

Prashant Srivastava, Gary L. Frankwick

The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for organizational learning in an alliance‐based context. An interaction effect of environmental turbulence on the relationship…

Strategic Risk Management Practice: How to Deal Effectively with Major Corporate Exposures

Joaquín Loras

People Management, Perspectives and Practices

Ma del Mar Benavides Espinosa

Corrigendum

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh