Management Decision: Volume 49 Issue 4

Sustainability in supply chain management: suggestions for the auto industry

Yu Xia, Thomas Li‐Ping Tang

The auto industry in the USA is facing tremendous challenges – plunging demands due to economic downturn, the gloomy trend in technology development, and fierce global…

Portfolio design for investment companies through scenario planning

Payam Hanafizadeh, Abolfazl Kazazi, Azam Jalili Bolhasani

Scenario planning has significant applications in the field of strategic management and facilitating decision making under uncertainty, and hence this study aims to integrate…

Innovation speed and radicalness: are they inversely related?

A. Banu Goktan, Grant Miles

The objective in this study is to examine the relationship between innovation speed, and radical product and process innovations.

Impact of interdependence between supply chain partners on strategic alliance outcomes: Role of relational capital as a mediating construct

Murali Sambasivan, Loke Siew‐Phaik, Zainal Abidin Mohamed, Yee Choy Leong

The aims of this paper are: to argue the role of Kelley's personal relationship theory (PRT) in explaining the maintenance and success of alliance outcomes; to argue the inclusion…

Globalization of performance appraisals: theory and applications

Steven H. Appelbaum, Michel Roy, Terry Gilliland

The purpose of this article is to provide a more complete perspective regarding the “best practices” for performance appraisals of “distant” employees in global organizations.

The hypocrisy‐sincerity continuum in corporate communication and decision making: A model of corporate social responsibility and business ethics practices

Yves Fassin, Marc Buelens

The disconnect between the corporate social responsibility (CSR) rhetoric and the practical reality experienced within companies calls for improved CSR evaluation systems that…

A robust optimization approach to allocation of marketing budgets

Amir Albadvi, Hamidreza Koosha

The main purpose of this research is to find an optimal allocation of marketing budgets which maximizes customer equity in an uncertain environment. Since markets are naturally…

Strategic management of business model transformation: lessons from Nokia

Jaakko Aspara, Juha‐Antti Lamberg, Arjo Laukia, Henrikki Tikkanen

This paper aims to offer a conceptualization of how and why corporate level strategic change may build on historical differentiation at business unit level.

A performance measurement framework in portfolio management: A constructivist case

Rogério Tadeu de Oliveira Lacerda, Leonardo Ensslin, Sandra Rolim Ensslin

The main aim of this paper is to present a framework to create a better understanding of the context and aid the portfolio management process. The paper seeks to present a case to…

Business Services in European Economic Growth

Francisco Mas‐Verdú

Strategy for Sustainability

Joaquín Camps