Management Decision: Volume 33 Issue 9

Team leader autonomy in new product development

Ashly Pinnington, Dennis Haslop

Reports the results of a UK company survey on the strategic andoperational autonomy of team leaders working on new product development(NPD). The data are based on returns from 194…

Broadening horizons: the practice of global relationships in procurement

Paul Herbig, Bradley S. O′Hara

The globalization of business is a fact of life that many managersare quickly waking up to. For firms, small and large alike, the movetowards internationalization implies a…

The business school in a busy world

Ray Wild

Discusses management education and development – and inparticular the role of business schools. Outlines some personal views onhow and why business schools have evolved, and how…

Ten simple lessons in strategy from the games firms play

R. Rothschild

Simple game theory offers a number of important insights intostrategic behaviour in a competitive business environment. Provides someflavour of the issues which can be addressed…

Information technology performance: agency and upper echelon theories

Zeinab A. Karake

Utilizes an objective measure of the levels of investment/performance in information technology (IT) and tests a number ofhypothesized relationships between IT performance and…

Business modelling on a personal computer

Tony Proctor

Exploring data and relationships between variables by visualinspection permits one to obtain excellent information fordecision‐making purposes. CA Compete! for Windows…

Achieving a balanced value system for continuity and change

Rainer Feurer, Kazem Chaharbaghi

The increasing level of competition has had a major influence onthe value system which defines the characteristics of an organizationand its relation to internal and external…

Do networks really foster innovation?

José Tomás Gómez Arias

Warns that although technology and innovation are often the keydrivers in the formation of business partnerships and networks,reflecting the parallel relationship between the…

Measuring resources for supporting resource‐based competition

Giovanni Azzone, Umberto Bertelè, Andrea Rangone

Draws attention to the recent emergence of a new model of how firmscompete – known as the resource‐based approach – which viewsthe firm as a set of critical resources, defined as…