Management Decision: Volume 41 Issue 2

The stable core and dynamic periphery in top management teams

Michael A. Roberto

This study explores how top management teams make strategic decisions. The findings indicate that the top management team performs a variety of monitoring and control functions…

Pre‐alliance planning: development of an information system infrastructure to support strategic alliance activities

Purnendu Mandal, Peter E.D. Love, Zahir Irani

Traditional business models are undergoing a process of redefinition following the drive to develop new business structures that support competition. The result of this has led to…

First mover advantages in emerging economies: a discussion

Zillur Rahman, S.K. Bhattacharyya

It is essential for a firm to create and capture value to justify its existence in competitive settings. In this context, first mover advantages in an emerging economy constitute…

Resistance to change: a literature review and empirical study

Manuela Pardo del Val, Clara Martínez Fuentes

This paper examines organizational change, focusing on the distinction of changes according to their scope and presenting a typology of evolutionary and strategic changes. It also…

The representativeness heuristic in judgements involving entrepreneurial success and failure

Philip A. Wickham

The representativeness heuristic generates a decision‐bias encouraging over‐estimation of the probability of low likelihood events when they are associated with strongly context…

Manoeuvre warfare: a new military paradigm for business decision making

Richard J. Pech, Geoffrey Durden

Emphasises the dangers of complacency in business thinking and of the risks associated with strategic decisions that are repetitive and predictable. Introduces a military decision…

Ethical perceptions in China: the reality of business ethics in an international context

P.C. Wright, W.F. Szeto, S.K. Lee

Focuses on the economic changes necessary and the present state of business ethics in China. Explores the ethical precepts held by a sample of Chinese professionals enrolled in a…

P/OM and societal development: a historical perspective

Ali H. Mansour

This research paper delineates and analyzes the relationship between production and operations management and the development of society. An attempt is made to take the reader…

Customer satisfaction: the historical perspective

Dayr Reis, Leticia Pena, Paulo A. Lopes

Successful firms are making a concerted effort to develop closer ties to their customers. However, the customer has not always been king. By describing the dialectic character of…

Perspectives on transformational leadership in the Sanhedrin of ancient Judaism

Mitchell Langbert, Hershey H. Friedman

Individuals interested in leadership can learn much from the Nesi’im (presidents) that headed the Sanhedrin. These leaders faced incredible adversity: Hellenists, Sadducees…