Management Decision: Volume 46 Issue 7

Product innovativeness and performance: a focus on SMEs

Helen Salavou, George Avlonitis

The aim of this paper is to classify firms according to dimensions of product innovativeness (PI) and identify differences in performance on the product and the firm basis in the…

Optimism, overconfidence and entrepreneurial activity

Rose Trevelyan

This paper aims to explore the question of confidence in entrepreneurship, and the impact confidence has on key tasks in the venture development process.

The nature of market orientation and the ambidexterity of innovations

Ci‐Rong Li, Chen‐Ju Lin, Chih‐Peng Chu

This study aims to consider that a proactive‐ and responsive‐market orientated firm is able to align with the development of radical (exploratory) innovations as well as…

Perceptions of core elements for sustainability management systems (SMS)

Javier Esquer‐Peralta, Luis Velazquez, Nora Munguia

The concepts of sustainable development (SD) and management systems (MS) are finding increasing acceptance in a variety of fields, including academy, politics, and…

Pitfalls in the application of analytic hierarchy process to performance measurement

Malte Peters, Stephan Zelewski

The paper seeks to show pitfalls in the application of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to efficiency analysis and performance measurement as well as ways to steer clear of these…

Measuring cultural perceptions of western project managers operating in the Asian region: Application of a cultural model

Richard Burchell, Anthony Gilden

This paper aims to show how western project managers operating in Asia can employ a survey based on cultural dimensions and continua as a means to assist with managing a team of…

Reciprocally derived demand and pricing strategy for mature industrial products

George Haley, Stephen Goldberg

This paper aims to determine the effects of a strategy of annual price increases for mature industrial, razors/blades products. Little prior research has looked at pricing…

Dancing “the management”: on social presence, rhythm and finding common purpose

David Atkinson

This paper seeks to explore the concept of dance as a metaphor for relating to the challenges of management and human relations within the organisational space. It asks in what…

Are marketing management decisions shaped during one's coming of age?

Paulo Cesar Motta, Charles Schewe

The purpose of this paper is to show the generational cohort gap in values and consequent decision making existing between younger and older marketing managers in Brazil. The…

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