Management Decision: Volume 43 Issue 6

Managerial cognition, action and the business model of the firm

Henrikki Tikkanen, Juha‐Antti Lamberg, Petri Parvinen, Juha‐Pekka Kallunki

The purpose of the paper was to outline a generic framework for the business model and illuminate its linkages to managerial cognition.

Implementing value‐transparency in supply relations

Richard Lamming, Jian Zhang, Nigel Caldwell, Wendy Phillips

To explore and identify the strategic approaches firms may follow in their pursuit of value transparency (VT) in inter‐organisational relations in supply networks.

Decision making as a simplification process: new conceptual perspectives

Richard J. McKenna, Brett Martin‐Smith

Proposes to call for inclusion of alternative conceptual perspectives in decision making theory and practice.

Innovation in large versus small companies: insights from the US wood products industry

Ernesto R. Wagner, Eric N. Hansen

Aims to explain the effect of firm size on company innovation inside one industry context: the wood products industry.

A review of case studies publishing in Management Decision 2003‐2004: Guides and criteria for achieving quality in qualitative research

Gabriel Cepeda, David Martin

This paper aims to specify a set of methodological stages to conduct case studies. It presents a graphical representation of these stages, describes how it assists management…

Using interpretive structural modelling in strategic decision‐making groups

Ricardo Bolaños, Emilio Fontela, Alfredo Nenclares, Pablo Pastor

The purpose of this paper is to apply interpretive structural modelling in the clarification of the perceptions of different individuals in a managerial group in order to improve…

Management of infrastructures: What can the internet developers learn from the history of railways?

Reima Suomi

The aim of this paper is to compare the railway and internet revolutions. What do they have in common and what is different between them, considering the 150‐year time difference…

The rise of the furniture manufacturing industry in Western North Carolina and Virginia

John James Cater

The purpose of this paper is to understand better the formation of an industry and the movement toward agglomeration by examining the development of the furniture manufacturing…

Innovation, diffusion and adoption of total quality management (TQM)

Benjamin Osayawe Ehigie, Elizabeth B. McAndrew

The present paper seeks to establish, through literature reports, if TQM is still a management theory in vogue or now a management fad. To achieve this, the innovative change…