Management Decision: Volume 51 Issue 5

Oft‐overlooked business wisdom highlighted from the youth‐soccer sidelines

This paper aims to present a number of important reminders and examples of oft‐overlooked managerial capabilities found to be useful in a variety of businesses.

The relationship between employee propensity to innovate and their decision to create a company

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between employees' propensity to innovate and cultivate entrepreneurial aspirations whilst working within an…

Knowledge transfer channels to Vietnam for process improvement

In the globalized economy, it is becoming increasingly necessary for firms in emerging economies to adopt advanced knowledge and technology from external sources, both domestic…

The effect of knowledge transfer on firm performance: An empirical study in knowledge‐intensive industries

This work aims to analyse the effect of a holistic business view, competency‐based management, continuous learning and information technology infrastructure on knowledge transfer…

Innovation in social economy firms

This study aims to examine whether the determinant factors of innovations broadly accepted for traditional firms – the personal traits of the entrepreneurs, the features of the…

Is technical training an obstacle to entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurial initiative has come to be recognised the world over as a driver of economic and social development. However, there is still a long way to go in terms of…

Examining the adoption of destination management systems: An inter‐organizational information systems approach

The study aims to adopt a multi‐stakeholder and inter‐organizational information systems (IOIS) approach for investigating the factors affecting the adoption of destination…

Towards a path dependence approach to study management innovation

Scholars in social sciences tend to use the term of path dependence without explaining exactly what they mean by it. Path dependence is a useful approach to understand the success…

Locus of control, socialization, and organizational identification

The purpose of this research is to investigate factors that influence employees' organizational identification. Focusing on the banking industry in Taiwan, this study aims to…

Green organizational identity and green innovation

The authors aim to apply an “interpretive context – organizational action – outcome” framework to explore the positive effect of green organizational identity on green innovation…

Impact of perceived corporate culture on organizational commitment

Previous research demonstrates the link between corporate culture and organizational commitment. Given the potential differences in espoused corporate culture and its perception…

Entrepreneurial and innovative competences, are they the same?

This paper aims to study competencies between two groups of professionals: employees in innovative companies and entrepreneurs. Therefore the following questions arise: Are these…

Innovation and knowledge creation: perspectives on the SMEs sector

The paper aims to look at small to medium‐sized enterprises' (SMEs') approach to learning and innovation.

Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations