Management Decision: Volume 50 Issue 5

Entrepreneurship research

With the rapid emergence of scholarly thinking and analysis about entrepreneurship has come a multiplicity of approaches, emanating from different academic traditions. This has…

The new logic in building isomorphic theory of management decision realities

This article aims to describe ethnographic theory and research that maintains the integrity of the individual case while generalizing to multiple cases in research on management…

The entrepreneurial growth ceiling: Using people and innovation to mitigate risk and break through the growth ceiling in initial public offerings

In this paper the authors aim to introduce a concept that they call the “entrepreneurial growth ceiling” (EGC). They develop arguments that new venture IPOs hit the EGC prior to…

The role of market and technological knowledge in recognizing entrepreneurial opportunities

Opportunity recognition is an important aspect on entrepreneurship, especially for technology‐based ventures. Drawing on Austrian economic theory, recent studies have emphasized…

Co‐innovation: convergenomics, collaboration, and co‐creation for organizational values

The aim of this paper is to present a macro view of the evolution of innovation for value creation, from the closed to collaborative, open, and now co‐innovation. It reviews…

Toward a theory of evidence based decision making

The purpose of this paper is to integrate existing body of knowledge on evidence‐based management, develop a theory of evidence, and propose a model of evidence‐based decision…

Virtues and leadership: An integrating conceptual framework founded in Aristotelian and Confucian perspectives on virtues

The purpose of this paper is to bring definitional clarity to the term “virtue” as pertinent to the behavioural sciences literatures on leadership; to identify a short and…

Organizing change: testing cultural limits of sustainability

A concept of culture as a solid black box of mental software is gone from serious research surviving in consulting modules and undergraduate teaching. Cultural values evolve and…

A contextual, flexibility‐based model of the HR‐firm performance relationship

The purpose of this paper is to present a more refined and comprehensive explanation of the HR‐firm performance relationship. Based on the recent conceptual and empirical research…

Talent management decision making

The paper sets out to understand the key issues that emerge in the context of decision making.

Project management in small to medium‐sized enterprises: Tailoring the practices to the size of company

The authors propose that small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) need simpler, more people‐focused forms of project management than traditionally used by larger organizations…

Entrepreneurship as connecting: some implications for theorising and practice

The purpose of this paper is to consider why entrepreneurship theorising has become fragmented and how the research problem might be resolved.

Re‐examining green purchase behaviour and the green consumer profile: new evidences

This paper aims to re‐examine the determinants of ecologically conscious consumer behaviour (ECCB) by analysing the green consumer profile (socio‐demographic and psychographic…

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