Journal of Management Development: Volume 37 Issue 4

Firm capabilities and performance: a necessary condition analysis

Nguyen Dinh Tho

The purpose of this paper is to employ a necessary condition analysis (NCA) approach to investigate the level of necessity of two conditions, marketing capability, including…

Corporate portfolio management in the public sector

Saša Baškarada, Brian Hanlon

Although corporate portfolio management (CPM) has been a popular tool for strategic management of multi-business portfolios in the private sector since the late 1960s, it has…

Bridging the gap between domain of research and locus of impact: An examination of the UK’s Research Excellence Framework

Rekha Rao-Nicholson, Peter Rodgers, Zaheer Khan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relevance of academic research in the business and management studies stream to various stakeholders. The stakeholder theory is used to…

Motivation exchange rate: the real value of incentives

Yundong Huang

The purpose of this paper is to describe how individuals compare the value of different types of incentive. This is similar to comparison in the financial field for currency…

Reflective vicarious learning (RVL) as an enhancement for action learning

Annie Yeadon-Lee

A fundamental assumption within action learning is that learning only occurs through participation, reflection and action. Revans maintains that individuals will fail to…