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Twenty‐first century leadership: international imperatives
Sheppard, Julie‐Anne; Sarros, James C.; Santora, Joseph C. - In: Management Decision 51 (2013) 2, pp. 267-280
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to identify the core issues that organisational leaders are facing internationally, as a result of a globalised and rapidly changing international economic environment. Appropriate leadership competencies and skills that enable organisational leaders to...
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Poetry as a way to inspire (the management of) the research process
Darmer, Per - In: Management Decision 44 (2006) 4, pp. 551-560
The purpose – The purpose of the paper is to argue that poetry should be integrated in research to a much larger extent than it is today, where poetry (at best) is considered inferior to research. Design/methodology/approach – The arguments are based on qualitative studies of the Danish...
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Intellectual capital disclosure and intangible value drivers: an empirical study
Vergauwen, Philip; Bollen, Laury; Oirbans, Els - In: Management Decision 45 (2007) 7, pp. 1163-1180
Purpose – This paper aims to study the relationship between intellectual capital disclosures (ICDs) and the relative importance of intangible assets as company value drivers. Design/methodology/approach – Annual reports of Swedish, British and Danish firms are analysed to measure the extent...
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Time‐based competition and multiculturalism
Tammela, I.; Canen, Alberto G.; Helo, Petri - In: Management Decision 46 (2008) 3, pp. 349-364
/methodology/approach – TBC was studied in furniture companies in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Brazil by conducting case studies. The research …
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Leading well pays off: mediating effects and multi-group analysis of strategic performance
Chen, Qinglan; Eriksson, Tor; Giustiniano, Luca - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 2, pp. 400-412
leadership style planning on the relationship between those two variables in Denmark.  …
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Towards a stoic interpretation of controllability
Pesqueux, Yvon - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 1, pp. 5-12
Ethics – both within philosophy and in the new disciplines of “applied ethics” and “business ethics” – is a vogue … subject these days and, as such, calls for a few cautionary words. The resurgence of ethics has engendered two main schools of … warnings of the other two, expresses a genuine interest in ethics – an interest stimulated paradoxically by a number of well …
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Cracking the code of business
Emiliani, M.L. - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 2, pp. 60-79
Large public companies restructure themselves on a regular basis with the primary goals of achieving better financial performance and demonstrating responsiveness to shareholder interests. However, it is well know that such discontinuities typically result in great stress and confusion amongst...
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Business ethics in the European Union: a study of Greek attitudes
Peppas, Spero C.; Peppas, George J. - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 6, pp. 369-376
Globalization and economic integration have focused attention on the topic of ethics in international management. At a … time when the European Union is attempting to harmonize standards in many areas, the issue of ethics within the EU deserves … different ethical orientations in different EU countries. In an effort to gain an understanding about ethics in an EU country …
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The stakeholder manager
Vinten, Gerald - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 6, pp. 377-383
All managers and directors are faced with real, or imagined, conflicts of interest or competing demands for time and resources, between shareholders and stakeholders. This has always been the case, but the contemporary emphasis on stakeholders has brought this to a head. Although the more astute...
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The oath of management
Emiliani, M.L. - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 4, pp. 261-262
Compares the management profession with the medical profession, in particular examining the Hippocratic oath. Suggests that as managers are the physicians of business, they should also abide by an oath, which is then proposed by the author.
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