Management Decision articles from January 1996

Management Decision archives from January 1996

Transformation through teamwork: the path to the new organization?
January 1, 1996... Introduction A strong interest in organizational transformation is apparent in managerial literature, popular books and themes of recent conferences and seminars. Surveys confirm that a majority of executives believe their organization to be...

The dubious assumptions of segmentation and targeting.
January 1, 1996... Introduction The marketing community was provided recently with a startling argument by Mitchell[1] - that we could use astrology in market segmentation. At first sight this appears to be an amusing suggestion, perhaps heralding a paradigm...

A strategy evaluation model for management.
January 1, 1996... Introduction Strategic management should involve the creation, timely evaluation and implementation of strategy that will further achievement of the firm's mission. Too often strategy is made which is suboptimal, ineffectual and actually...

Market signalling: a review.
January 1, 1996... Introduction Signals are data from which a firm can draw inferences about the sender's behaviour. The phenomenon of signalling can be seen everywhere. Demographics provide a signal to health and auto insurers. Grades and test scores act as...

A process perspective on strategic decision making.
January 1, 1996... In discussing decision making, it is customary to focus on a decision-making process or the decision itself. Focusing for a moment on the decision itself, it is useful to note the variety of definitions for the term decision. One definition,...

The Hundred Years War started today: an exploration of electronic peer review.
January 1, 1996... The Internet has variously been described as "the grandest revolution in the capture and dissemination of emerging academic and professional knowledge and information since Caxton developed his printing press"[1], "the most significant advance...

Information sources and their usefulness in a professional services organization.
January 1, 1996... One important activity engaged in by managers and professionals in organizations involves the collection and dissemination of information[1]. A good deal of information is obtained from interpersonal sources and Mintzberg[1] believes that...

No such thing as ... a practical approach to management.
January 1, 1996... Introduction I was born in the 1960s and during my childhood I slowly came to an awareness that Britain was suffering with the problems and torments of economic decline. Thus when I reflect on my childhood, along with other childish things,...