Management Decision: Volume 39 Issue 10

Is an alignment between business and information technology the appropriate paradigm to manage IT in today’s organisations?

Tomasz Smaczny

For many years practitioners and academics have tried to answer the question of how to strategically align the objectives of information technology (IT) and business and their…

Marx, economics and consumer response

Alf Walle

Due to the political rivalries of the past, Karl Marx has usually been viewed as a partisan figure. With the demise of the Eastern block, however, it becomes possible to view…

Strategic planning‐effectiveness‐environment linkage: a case study

Carolan McLarney

The literature on strategic planning has examined the process of planning in some detail, but most of it has ignored the external environment in its discussion. In the studies…

The new economy, new opportunities and new structures

David Walters, June Buchanan

The increase in intangible asset ownership and the importance of capabilities as “assets” has brought a new perspective to the conventional balance sheet and to the valuation of…

Determinants of organisational creativity: a literature review

Constantine Andriopoulos

In today’s competitive business environment, global competition forces companies to perpetually seek ways of improving their products/services. Organisations increasingly aspire…

Performance evaluation and control: supporting organizational change

Phil Johnson, Catherine Cassell, Paul Close, Joanne Duberley

Many companies have found that the presumed benefits of organizational change initiatives, such as TQM or team working, have not been forthcoming because managers have failed to…

How leading companies create, measure and achieve strategic results through “line of sight”

Wendy R. Boswell, John W. Boudreau

Aligning employees with the organization’s strategic goals has become increasingly important as organizations struggle to gain or sustain a competitive advantage. This article…

Demythifying flexibility

Sushil

Owing to the multidimensionality of the concept of flexibility, it is at times misunderstood and misinterpreted and many myths are created. This paper attempts to demythify the…

Just‐in‐time: the reincarnation of past theory and practice

Göran Svensson

Many widespread managerial concepts are expressed as abbreviations of two or three letters. In addition, they have often been introduced and treated as new‐to‐the‐world by both…

Fayol’s 14 principles of management then and now:a framework for managing today’s organizations effectively

Carl A. Rodrigues

Early last century, for industrially‐developing economies, Fayol offered 14 principles of management aimed to help managers ascertain what to do to manage more effectively…