Management Decision: Volume 55 Issue 1

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Revisiting the relationship between knowledge search breadth and firm innovation: A knowledge transfer perspective

Ben Nanfeng Luo, Steven S. Lui, Youngok Kim

The purpose of this paper is to show that the high learning ability associated with innovative firms enables these firms to conduct a broad knowledge search based on a knowledge…

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Evaluation and decision making in social media marketing

Brendan James Keegan, Jennifer Rowley

As organisations are increasing their investment in social media marketing (SMM), evaluation of such techniques is becoming increasingly important. The purpose of this paper is to…

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Procedural rationality in supplier selection: Outlining three heuristics for choosing selection criteria

Luitzen de Boer

The purpose of this paper is to present three heuristics for choosing supplier selection criteria. By considering the balance between the expected relative effort and benefit of…

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Supporting start-up business model design through system dynamics modelling

Federico Cosenz

The purpose of this paper is to explore how system dynamics (SD) modelling can provide a methodological support to business model (BM) design with the intent to better communicate…

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Union is strength: The integration of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 contributes to improve the firms’ financial performance

Carmen Pilar Martí-Ballester, Alexandra Simon

The purpose of this paper is to fill a gap in the management systems (MSs) field by addressing whether the implementation of an integrated management system (IMS) and the…

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Lean production, workforce development and operational performance

Ákos Uhrin, Sebastian Bruque-Cámara, José Moyano-Fuentes

The purpose of this paper is to deepen the knowledge about the role of human resources in a lean environment and its impact on operational performance.

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Collective tacit knowledge generation through play: Integrating socially distributed cognition and transactive memory systems

Martin Spraggon, Virginia Bodolica

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature by examining the generation of collective tacit knowledge (CTK) in organizations through social ludic activities…

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Hybrid metaheuristic to solve the “one-to-many-to-one” problem: Case of distribution of soft drink in Tunisia

Jalel Euchi, Sana Frifita

The purpose of this paper is to present a specific variant of vehicle routing problem with simultaneous full pickup and delivery problem (VRPSFPD) known as one-to-many-to-one…

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A contingency model of CEO characteristics and firm innovativeness: The moderating role of organizational size

Bhaskar Prasad, Paulina Junni

Ample evidence suggests that firm innovativeness is important for firm competitiveness. Despite the significance of the CEO for firm outcomes in general, the role of the CEO in…

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A meta-analysis of the impact of privatization on firm performance

Patricia Bachiller

Despite the vast literature on privatization, the relationship between change of ownership and performance is not clear. The purpose of this paper is to understand why divergences…

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The moderating influence of market potential and prior experience on the governance quality-equity participation relationship: Evidence from acquisitions in BRIC

Somnath Lahiri

The purpose of this paper is to theorize and examine how target country governance quality, target country market potential and acquirer’s prior experience impacts equity…

CEO duality and bribery: the roles of gender and national culture

Kristine Velasquez Tuliao, Chung-wen Chen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the cross-cultural impact of CEO-Chair’s gender to the likelihood of CEO duality firm’s bribery.

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Cover of Management Decision

ISSN:

0025-1747

Online date, start – end:

1967

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Brandon Randolph-Seng (Editor-in-Chief)