Management Decision: Volume 33 Issue 6

The MCC decision matrix:: a tool for applying strategic logic to everyday activity

John Nicholls

Proposes the MCC decision matrix as a modern equivalent of theoriginal Boston Consulting Group (BCG) portfolio matrix. Focuses on thekey questions of mission and core competences…

Strategy development: past, present and future

Rainer Feurer, Kazem Chaharbaghi

Aims to provide an overview of major work that has been carried outin the area of strategy development in the past and outlines how it willdevelop in the future. Presents an…

Developing consensus: reflections on a model‐supported decision process

Graham W. Winch

Focuses on consulting experiences utilizing simulation approachesthat capture decision‐making processes in formulations that aretransparent to the general manager. Examines the…

Decision processes, monitoring, incentives and large firm performance in the UK

Jo Evans, Charlie Weir

In large firms the managers who run the business tend not to belarge shareholders. In addition, managers are said to have objectiveswhich differ from those of the owners. Aligning…

Managerial judgement in strategic marketing:: some preliminary thoughts

Douglas Brownlie, Jason Christopher Spender

Aims to delineate and explore the terrain of mainstream literatureon strategic marketing management. Draws attention to the important roleof judgement in almost everything that…

Specialization and its critical role in business

Brian Bloch

Provides an innovative perspective on the subject ofspecialization. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the German managementpractitioner and consultant Wolfgang Mewes, developed what he…

Implementation considerations for activity‐based cost systems in service firms: the unavoidable challenge

Soren Kock

Aims to increase the knowledge about benefits and drawbacks when aservice firm implements activity‐based cost systems as a managerial toolfor calculating the costs of different…