Strategic Direction: Volume 27 Issue 1

Failing to learn? How organizations can learn from failure

The purpose of the article is to share insights, based on recent management research, into how organizations can learn from their own failure and the failure of others.

Knowledge factories: from iPhones to iHotels: How marketing is being shaped by new technologies

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Thai firms tackle changing markets: Mining their talent is key to success

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Learning in a very sociable way: Interaction key to teacher‐learner effectiveness

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Joint effort: Integrating leadership development and organizational change

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Through the looking glass: what really matters in a recession: How the media can distort, and academic rigor aid successful strategies

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Fun factor in novel suggestions: Money not always open‐innovation motivator

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Maximizing innovation capabilities: The role of reputation and alliances

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

The plaza of the people: Management of Federation Square

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Interview with Alex Pratt, author of Austerity Business

The purpose of this paper is to provide an interview with Alex Pratt, an award winning entrepreneur and one of the UK's leading business figures. He started trading bankrupt stock…

The Titanic sunk, so what? Project manager response to unexpected events

Small businesses and the environment: turning over a new leaf?

Bubble or not? (How Canada’s real estate boom has defied the global financial crisis)

Brand loyalty starts from a very early age

Competition rule changes impact on land agreements and protection of trade

Corporate philanthropic giving, advertising intensity, and industry competition level

Global Marketing Management

Innovation in a global consulting firm: when the problem is too much diversity

From the “Hindu rate of growth” to “unstoppable India”: has the services sector played a role?

Diary

Gender differences in job challenge: a matter of task allocation

Competitive horizon

Fighting through the worst of times (how Ford, Hormel Foods and General MetalWorks overcame the recession)

The power of brands in the destination economy (destination marketing)

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era