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Competitive advantage: what’s luck got to do with it?
Hao MaLuck remains an elusive theoretical concept in the business literature yet a fascinating practical phenomenon in business reality. In addition to effective strategic maneuvering…
Developing and supporting creative problem solving teams: part 2 – facilitator competencies
Elspeth McFadzeanMore and more organisations are using teams to solve problems, plan for the future and improve products, processes and services. One method of enhancing group effectiveness is to…
The charismatic gaze: everyday leadership practices of the “new” manager
Kirstie Ball, Chris CarterDuring the last 20 years, there has been an explosion in the production and dissemination of a number of highly popular managerial concepts. These initiatives, such as TQM and…
Knowledge‐based structures and organisational commitment
Gordon BrooksOrganisational commitment, the emotional attachment of an employee to the employing organisation, has attracted a substantial body of literature, relating the concept to various…
Beyond global marketing and the globalization of marketing activities
Göran SvenssonThe topic of this article is the term “global marketing” and the phenomenon of the “globalization” of marketing activities. Global marketing is a theoretical concept that in a…
Executives’ predisposition for planning in an emerging country environment
Dimitrios N. KoufopoulosThe paper presents findings from a European country setting, namely Greece. It focuses on two important organizational features: the chief executive officer and the planning…
Public administration in early America: sex and the law in Puritan Massachusetts
Michael V. WellsWhen they arrived in the New World the English Puritans expected to pursue justice by using the Bible and discretionary justice. Because they left England, in part, as an escape…
Cladistics as historiography: part II – the phylogeny of automotive assembly
Michel J. LeseureThis second part of the paper presents in more detail the phylogenetic model of automotive assembly factories used in the first part of the paper. The key organizational species…
Theorising path‐dependency: how does history come to matter in organisations?
Ian GreenerContends that path‐dependency provides an accurate, but under‐theorised description of organisational behaviour. By incorporating insights from actor‐network theory, we can better…
Organization design: the continuing influence of information technology
C. Clay Dibrell, Thomas R. MillerDrawing from an information processing perspective, this paper examines how information technology (IT) has been a catalyst in the development of new forms of organizational…
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