Management Research News: Volume 30 Issue 2

Assignment of employees to workplaces under consideration of employee competences and preferences

Malte L. Peters, Stephan Zelewski

This paper seeks to develop a model for the assignment of employees to workplaces. Assignment methods are of high relevance in practice because employees should be assigned to…

Knowledge management: An overview of European reality

Maria Teresa Borges Tiago, João Pedro Almeida Couto, Flávio Gomes Tiago, António Cabral Vieira

This paper aims to determine whether the implementation of knowledge management (KM) is linked to e‐business performance and to identify the nature of the relationship existing in…

Does innovation lead to performance? An empirical study of SMEs in Taiwan

Carol Yeh‐Yun Lin, Mavis Yi‐Ching Chen

This study attempts to probe within a multi‐dimensional perspective the nature and type of daily innovation practices of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) located in…

International joint ventures in Russia: a recipe for success

Marios I. Katsioloudes, Daria Isichenko

This paper seeks to identify success factors of oil and gas international joint ventures (IJVs) in Russia. The paper focuses on the evaluation of the factors determining the…

Project management tools and techniques in high‐technology SMEs

Alan Murphy, Ann Ledwith

This paper aims to examine the use of project management practices in small high‐technology firms and to identify what contributes to project success.

Greed and Corporate Failure – The Lessons from Recent Disasters

Judy Louie

This paper aims to examine the use of project management practices in small high‐technology firms and to identify what contributes to project success.