Strategic Direction: Volume 28 Issue 5

How to create a thriving workplace: reaping the benefits of employee satisfaction

This paper aims to highlight the significance of employee satisfaction to creating a successful business.

Selling small can be big business: Putting a price on piecemeal purchases

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Flexible friends: Improving the supply chain network

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Cost cutting and high quality in pharmaceuticals production: A Trinidadian drugs manufacturer radically re‐engineers its product packing process

This paper aims to present a methodology for combining lean manufacturing with current good manufacturing processes (cGMP) in a pharmaceutical company.

Successful process change at AustGov: How does success emerge in a business process change initiative?

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Big Brother joins our shopping trips: Snooping on buying habits is big business

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Perfect leaders are figures of fantasy: What counts is knowing your strengths and weaknesses

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Firms who drive for a better world: How corporate responsibility is making a difference

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Respect and reputation key to success in India – and India's success: Lessons to be learned in HR, strategy and operations from the world's largest democracy

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Interview with Anders Dahlvig

The purpose of this article is to provide an interview with the former IKEA CEO, Anders Dahlvig.

Putting bribery act safeguards in place now may just save your business

Diary

Stakeholder engagement: defining strategic advantage for sustainable construction

Mass customization strategy development by FIRM

A better way to merge companies?

Exploring the interface between strategy-making and responsible leadership

Scoring strategy goals: measuring corporate social responsibility in professional European football

Competitive horizon

Ethics and Organizational Practice

Knowledge and strategy creation in multinational companies: social-identity frames and temporary tension in knowledge combination

The role of analogy and metaphor in the framing and legitimization of strategic change

Strategic analysis and auditor risk judgments

Corporate social responsibility and tax aggressiveness: an empirical analysis

R&D (re)location and offshore outsourcing: a management perspective