Management Decision: Volume 21 Issue 3

Licensing Technology

A.F. Millman

“Know‐how is a sleeping asset — it lies hidden in people's heads, their desk drawers and filing cabinets — a potential source of income waiting to be packaged.” “Licensing…

New Business Development

D.A. Littler, R.C. Sweeting

Introduction All industries eventually attain maturity This means that, at best, demand for output is rising at a slower rate, and may actually be declining; marginal returns on…

The Japan Syndrome:: Demystifying Japanese Management

J. Michael Smith

For the last few years Japan has been the rage of many scholars who, with little or no business experience in their own culture, let alone in Japan, have turned Japanese…

The Vocational Preferences of Chief Executives

Charles Margerison

Chief executives have a considerable role in shaping policy and practices of organisations. However, the factors which influence them in their careers have received relatively…

ACTION LEARNING: The Forces of Achievement, or Getting It Done

R.W. Revans

Knowing and Doing in Many Partnerships Long before there were any business schools or professors of management, back in the oldest of antiquity, the students of human progress had…