Management Decision: Volume 46 Issue 2

Chinese strategy: is it crossverging, converging or transverging to Western systems?

Alex Mackinnon

The purpose of this paper is to assess the change in Chinese managerial network systems to identify adaptation to Western strategic systems.

Market entry decisions of US small and medium‐sized software firms

Arto Ojala, Pasi Tyrväinen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate market entry decisions of the US software SMEs by analyzing the impact of the most obvious factors (cultural distance, geographical…

Top management team demographic characteristics, business strategy, and firm performance in the US airline industry: The role of managerial discretion

Irene Goll, Nancy Brown Johnson, Abdul A. Rasheed

The purpose of this paper is to focus on top management demographic characteristics, business strategy, and firm performance in the major US airlines.

Failure processes and causes of company bankruptcy: a typology

Hubert Ooghe, Sofie De Prijcker

The purpose of this paper is to show that previous research about financial and non‐financial causes of bankruptcy has neglected the time dimension of failure. The paper seeks to…

Bad apples in bad (business) barrels: The love of money, machiavellianism, risk tolerance, and unethical behavior

Thomas Li‐Ping Tang, Yuh‐Jia Chen, Toto Sutarso

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to use several variables measured at Time 1 to predict cluster membership (bad apples vs good apples) measured at Time 2 and investigate…

Environmental management in the United Kingdom: new survey evidence

Frederik Dahlmann, Stephen Brammer, Andrew Millington

The purpose of this paper is to provide a snapshot of environmental management practices in the UK and discuss managerial responses to environmental issues in comparison with…

Tightening the link between employee wellbeing at work and performance: A new dimension for HRM

Nicole Renee Baptiste

The purpose of the paper is to show that, though essential, the achievement of business‐oriented performance outcomes has obscured the importance of employee wellbeing at work…

Making just decisions: organizational justice, decision making, and leadership

Richard J. Eberlin, B. Charles Tatum

The purpose of this paper is to show that participants read vignettes in which managers were assigned different roles. The vignettes depicted managers with two leadership styles…

Problems in global strategic alliance management for European defence manufacturing firms

Colin Butler

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the problems which occur for European defence manufacturers in cross‐border strategic alliances.

International Business: Competing in the Global Market Place

Nnamdi O. Madichie