Management Decision: Volume 42 Issue 9

The role of ideas in the manager's workplace: theory and practice

Glenn Rothberg

Ideas contribute to the achievement of high performance, excellence, and competitive advantage in management and organisation. To intervene to facilitate these favourable…

Innovation through people

John L. Thompson

Creativity underpins innovation; innovation underpins enterprise. In the business world it is enterprises, not ideas or products on their own, that make money. Much attention is…

Open source development: a hybrid in innovation and management theory

John P. Ulhøi

This paper addresses innovations based on open source or non‐proprietary knowledge. Viewed through the lens of private property theory, such agency appears to be a true anomaly…

Adopting a lifecycle perspective to explain the transition from technological innovation to alliance management

Angeliki Poulymenakou, Elpida Prasopoulou

Innovative technology‐based products and services are often the result of the syndication of skills and resources of more than one firm. Such inter‐firm arrangements – i.e…

Toward a contingency theory of supply chains

Peter W. Stonebraker, Rasoul Afifi

Despite years of research and application, integrated supply chains remain dynamic, multifaceted, and often misunderstood entities. However, in many environments the potential for…

Academic ethics: What has morality, culture and administration got to do with its measurement?

Gbolahan Gbadamosi

While there is no dearth of studies on ethical issues, the specific subject of examination misconduct has attracted fewer studies, especially in Africa. This study is an ongoing…

Emporium of glamour and sanctum of scientific management: The early twentieth century department store

Ingrid Jeacle

The early decades of the twentieth century witnessed a significant transformation in managerial control practices within the US department store. New principles of scientific…

Transformation of “a business in risks”: knowledge and learning for reinvention

Carol Matheson Connell

Jardine Matheson & Company is a Hong Kong multi‐industry conglomerate that has gone through political upheaval, global and regional economic crises, and has survived and…

Intimacy

Amanda Briggs