Management Decision: Volume 22 Issue 3

Social Innovation: An Imperative Need

Roger Talpaert

According to Herbert Simon—the first and only Nobel prize winner in the area of management studies—the human mind cannot function on more than a few consciously considered…

Attitudes Towards Multinationals: The Middle East in the World Context

Yasar M. Geyikdagi

Introduction The purpose of this article is to examine the evolution of the attitudes of Middle Eastern countries towards foreign direct investment and, more specifically, towards…

Strategy and US Cultural Bias

Nicholas J. O'Shaughnessy

Recent years have seen a profusion of new models for strategic analysis. Their common purpose is to guide decision as to which business/product areas to focus on, which to…

Personnel Management and the Welfare Role

P.B. Beaumont

Introduction In Britain, personnel management had its origins in welfare work at the turn of the century. This fact seems to have been a source of embarrassment to many personnel…

The Management Profession and Educational Policy

Erwin Waschnig

Before one can enter into a discussion about professions and their influence, certain parameters have to be defined. The whole question of what constitutes a profession has been a…

Corporate Life Cycles and the Evolution of Management — Part II

Scott S. Cowen, J. Kendall Middaugh, Kevin McCarthy

The first part of the article posited a segmentation of corporate life cycles into four stages: birth, youth, maturity and resurrection. A review of the characteristics of each of…