Management Decision: Volume 26 Issue 6

Doing Business in the Pacific

Alfred G. Edge

Here is a cautionary tale of the penalties for ignoring local customs and the success attending a more careful approach.

Personal Professionalism: The Key Resource for the Bottom Line

Gordon Wills

When Europe becomes a single market, success for banks will be determined by how professional their managers have become.

Linear Responsibility Charting:: A Technique for Strategic Management

George Korey

LRC is a technique of particular use as an aid to making complex decisions when the responsibility is shared amongst a group of people.

MIS Project Management: A Contingency Approach

Brian L. Dos Santos

The MIS manager is offered a framework to help in the selection of methodologies for projects; the choice of analyst may be crucial.

The Mind of the Retail Buyer

Peter M. Banting, David L. Blenkhorn

There are many products we sell at absolute cost because they are part of the image of our business. We sell Kodak cameras at cost — we will sell between 5,000 and 6,000 of the…

Culture and Job Satisfaction: An Unobtrusive Approach

Frederic W. Swierczek

Is job satisfaction, as revealed by surveys, too Western a concept? Three survey instruments are examined in relation to Thai culture.

Corporate Knowledge‐Based Systems:: A Framework for Management

J. Peppard, P.L. Henry

Knowledge‐based systems are beginning to provide executives with powerful systems which serve to automate corporate expertise. This is the first of two articles exploring KBS and…

A Matrix Model of Corporate Decision Making

John Hassard

Current models of strategy formulation do not always prove robust in application; here is one whose roles are short or long‐term criteria for financial control and the making of…

Rebuilding the Survivor's Loyalty

Ken Matejka, Bill Presutti

Surviving employees need to know why and how decisions are made about redundancy and personnel changes if their loyalty is to be preserved.