Management Decision: Volume 36 Issue 3

Riding a tiger: some lessons of Taurus

Helga Drummond

The collapse of project Taurus, the London Stock Exchange’s £500 million IT venture, ranks as one of the major fiascos of business history. This paper highlights key mistakes in…

Foundations of strategic decision effectiveness

E. Frank Harrison, Monique A. Pelletier

Strategic decisions represent the most important product of managerial endeavors; and strategic choice is the most critical variable in strategic management. This article advances…

Management communication: a technological revolution?

Paul Johnson, Christine S. Fidler, Simon Rogerson

It may be reasonably argued that the advent of modern communications technologies should manifest itself to some extent in a change in the behavioural patterns of their users…

Symbols and quantitative FUN‐damentals

Patricia Karathanos, Diane Pettypool

Organizations develop cultural artifacts to create and sustain organizational meaning. Symbolism creates organizational reality such that assumptions become taken‐for‐granted…

High fidelity: getting attuned to Cuba’s new market beat

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer

Cuba’s “Special Period”, launched in 1990, was a reform program aimed at reversing the economic deterioration associated with the rapid disintegration of the Comecon trading bloc…

The relationship between prior performance and diversification: a study of three industries

Ananda Mukherji

The extensive research undertaken in studying the relationship between diversification and performance has been largely inconclusive. There have been a number of reasons for mixed…

Downsizing and facility location: plant closures in multiplant manufacturing firms

J.D. Kirkham, S.M. Richbell, H.D. Watts

Downsizing sometimes involves the shutdown of manufacturing capacity by multiplant firms. The paper focuses on the selection of a site for shutdown by firms operating two or more…

No such thing as … the “language” of business II

Russell Williams

A nostrum of business is that accounting can be read as the language of business. However, for very good reasons the claims for it as such are weak, and whilst a strong case can…

Management consultancy: a modern folly?

Jak de Burgundy

Reflecting on the growth of state spending on management consultancy this brief article argues that much of this spending has been wasteful or misdirected. Observing that in…

An examination of the impact of organizational downsizing and discrimination activities on corporate social responsibility as measured by a company’s reputation index

Zeina A. Karake

This research empirically tests the relationship between a company’s social responsibility (CSR) performance as measured by the company’s reputation index, on the one hand, and…