Management Decision: Volume 32 Issue 6

The Quest for the Competitive Learning Organization

Suzanne Miller Hosley, Agnes T.W. Lau, Ferdinand K. Levy, Doreen S.K. Tan

In a rapidly changing and unpredictable business environment, a majorsource of sustainable competitive advantage is likely to be the abilityto learn faster than competitors…

Measuring Your Way to Profit

Umit S. Bititci

The traditional cost accounting‐based business performance measures usedtoday fail to provide adequate support to allow the use of modernmanagement techniques and development of…

Acknowledge and Use Your Grapevine

David Cathmoir Nicoll

Reassesses the role of the grapevine in employee communications. Arguesthat it has a role to play in socializing employees to a company,initiating behavioural change, disciplining…

The Strategic Imagination

Stan Glaser

Corporate and marketing strategists have begun seriously to address theproblems of adapting to turbulent environments. Discusses concepts ofadaptation and turbulence and describes…

Human Resource Accounting: From Prescription to Description?

Chris Dawson

Looks at the general issue of prescriptive and descriptive approaches tomanagement research, and the tensions that exist between these twoapproaches. Considers these issues with…

A Practical Guide to Gender Neutral Language

M.J. Pitt

Documents ranging from advertisements to policy statements do not haveto be either sexist or clumsily anti‐sexist. There is a middle groundof neutral writing which avoids sex…

Towards the Dynamic Organization

Kazem Chaharbaghi, Edward Nugent

Analyses the impact of free market forces on organizationcharacteristics. The traditional thinking about organizations is firstexamined. Shows that in a free market environment an…

Quality Teams as Improvement Support Systems (ISS): An Australian Perspective

M. Barad, B. Kayis

Remarkable improvements in results achieved during the past decade bysome US manufacturing companies show the crucial role played in thesecompanies by quality teams which we can…

Fear, Truth and Reality in Making Presentations

Jonathan Haigh

Surveys consistently put public speaking near the top of the list ofpeople′s fears. Aims to show presenters ways of dealing with those fearsand becoming more effective speakers…

The Use and Abuse of Economic Forecasts

Peter Gripaios

Economic forecasting has become big business with over 40 institutionsproducing forecasts in the UK alone. Such forecasts are widely reportedin the media and businesses typically…