Management Research News: Volume 29 Issue 7

Brand development: institutional constraints on Chinese businesses

Judith Hollows, Stewart R. Clegg

This paper addresses the reasons why Chinese businesses have long been identified as subordinate to world‐class brand owners; why “global” own brand developments are considered to…

Knowledge management and the links to HRM: Developing leadership and management capabilities to support sustainability

Marianne Gloet

To explore linkages between knowledge management (KM) and human resource management (HRM) as a means of developing leadership and management capabilities to support sustainability.

Quality management practices and their relationship with customer satisfaction and productivity improvement

Milé Terziovski

There is considerable confusion surrounding the applied role and business value of TQM. Anecdotal evidence and empirical studies in the literature suggest considerable variability…

Business networking in the Chinese context: Its role in the formation of guanxi, social capital and ethical foundations

Ricky Szeto, Philip C. Wright, Edward Cheng

Business ethics has become a controversial topic as China integrates more closely into the world economy and there are signs of convergence within global professions. The purpose…

Managerial cognitions of competitive environments: a strategic group analysis

George Panagiotou

In the field of strategic management, the majority of studies analyse competitive environments from an economic standpoint, based on the implicit notion that business environments…

Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don't

Keith Thomas

Fitting OH&S into management practice

A vision and strategy for the journal

Mike Berrell