Learning society, learning organisations, all of these are tools to improve competitiveness - says the study‘s author. The work emphasises the explorations of internation between the individual and the organisation, and in particular the impact of organisations and social context on the...

As strategy research has been exploring the dynamic, social and situated nature of the strategy process, so has the role of learning increasingly been recognised as a central feature of strategizing practice. This paper contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of strategizing practice by...

If organizational renewal (becoming) is key to organizational survival why is it so difficult to come about and how might it be supported? This is the central question this paper will seek to explore by problematizing the current conceptualizations of organizational renewal, which are often...

At the centre of responsible management (RM) learning is the development of managerial competence for ethics, responsibility, and sustainability (ERS). Important contributions have been made from each: the ethics, responsibility, and sustainability disciplines. However, we are yet to integrate...

In the channels literature, research involving behavioural constructs is extensive. However, there have been persistent calls for more comprehensive models to explain channel phenomena (Anderson and Narus 1984; Anderson and Narus 1990; Gattorna 1978, Stern and Reve 1980) particularly where all construct...

Japanese multinational companies (MNCs) have often been portrayed as highly centralised firms that limit the roles of overseas subsidiaries to the assembly and sale of standardised products designed and developed in Japan (see, e.g. Bartlett and Ghoshal, 1989: 51-2, 158-161). Their foreign...

Much recent work on firms' capabilities and competitive competences builds on Penrose's (1959) seminal contribution to the theory of the firm in emphasising their organisational nature, and the critical role of managerial routines in transforming resources into distinctive services (see, e.g....

Achieving a good response rate is a goal in every survey. Response rate has also become an interesting academic debate. On one side Hunt (1990) maintains that since marketing is a social science, where most of the time researchers are interested in examining relationships rather than determining...

Television has changed our use of time far more than any other technological development (Robinson 1990). For many, watching television has become the main leisure experience. By the late 1990’s in Britain, (one of the two countries where we undertook empirical work) people aged 4 and over...