Management Decision: Volume 42 Issue 6

Flexible working: changing the manager's role

Janice Johnson

There are no guarantees of anything in life except death and taxation and so in the meantime organisations must respond to the dynamic changes thrust upon them in order to ensure…

A conceptual framework for studying fanatical managers

Carol J. Steiner

This article explicates a conceptual framework that might be used to study how fanatical managers make decisions. It reviews literature on fanatics produced by psychologists…

Strategy competence: a successful approach to international market entry

Anders Pehrsson

This article presents a study of the link between strategy competence and performance in the context of international market entry. The concept of strategy competence encompasses…

Management fashions and fads: Understanding the role of consultants and managers in the evolution of ideas

Russell Williams

This conceptual paper concerns management fashions and fads. It focuses on the way that concepts, techniques and ideas become popular in the marketplace and the role of knowledge…

Scanning actions and environmental dynamism: Gathering information for strategic decision making

Jill R. Hough, Margaret A. White

While it is generally accepted that scanning supports organizational adaptation to the environment, scanning behavior may vary with the amount of environmental change. Information…

The new normal: lessons learned from SARS for corporations operating in emerging markets

Brennan Day, Ruth Burnice Mckay, Michael Ishman, Ed Chung

The modern industrialized world was completely caught off guard by the recent SARS outbreak. Fortunately, for most organizations, the impact has been short lived, but management…