Management Decision: Volume 33 Issue 4

Volcanoes and trees: identifying a suitable working environment

Carole Brooke

Towards the end of the 1980s, industry reported an IT “skillscrisis”. Academics and practitioners responded by focusing on theextent and nature of the apparent shortfall and…

Dynamic strategy ownership

Rainer Feurer, Kazem Chaharbaghi, Markus Distel

As the pace of change is increasing in competitive environmentsstrategy formulation and implementation is becoming a continuous andsimultaneous process. Such a process requires a…

“Salesman, dreamer and son‐of‐a‐bitch”: quality executive development for managing directors

David Tranfield

Management research on strategic issues has focussed on economicand market forces surrounding a firm. Although this has re‐emphasizedthe need to become more attentive to the needs…

Open versus closed questions – an open issue

Gerald Vinten

In our constant asking of questions in our organizations we use acombination of open and closed questions. This is generally done in ahaphazard manner according to custom or…

Simpler scenarios

David Mercer

Describes in detail the simpler approach to scenario planning whichretains the ability to handle uncertainty – the traditional reasonfor using such scenarios. States that their…

Information technology and telecommunications: impacts on strategic alliance formation and management

Linden Brown, Hugh Pattinson

An information‐driven, techno‐economic paradigm based on themicroprocessor has emerged and is having a direct impact on theformation and management of strategic alliances…

Combining management and information flow techniques

Huan Neng Chiu

In the present condition of intense global competition, thesurvival of a firm becomes the underlying issue. How to regaincompetitive advantage and promote synergism is the…