Purpose – The main purpose of this study is to review the knowledge management literature from a content‐related perspective using cluster analysis. Design/methodology/approach – A critical analysis of previous review articles in KM provided a conceptual framework with nine dimensions. A...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strategic profiles and differences across globally leading business schools. Design/methodology/approach – This paper used the concepts of strategic group identity and domain consensus to examine the differences across the business...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to empirically examine different types of service firms, featuring strategy orientations and the performance of different emphases. Design/methodology/approach – To answer the questions the paper raises, data of 80 Greek firms of the services sector are...

The past decade has seen a plethora of approaches on how to respond to the changing times. All are meaningful, but useless unless alignment is an underlying theme. What is the essence of alignment? What is it that organizations do to create alignment? Examines the history of organizations with a...

Purpose – Little research focuses on the conditions under which companies open up to co-develop knowledge with external actors. Spatial proximity has been proved insufficient to generate successful open innovation processes: socio-economic proximity also seems required. This paper aims at...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to inform the business management literature that focuses on the perceptions of business professionals towards the multidimensional and highly complex concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Design/methodology/approach – This study is based on...

Discusses the death of inter‐firm and intra‐firm competition as we know it and propose an approach beyond competition – “the pursuit of immortality”. Our digital age offers immense and unprecedented opportunities to bring forth the latent potential of organizations, by allowing...

Human resource management’s challenge is to improve the balance among three competing quality targets: equity, flexibility and alignment. Management of these targets has improved through four historical periods: the pre‐industrial, paternalist, bureaucratic and high performance. There always...

Agile manufacturing is a response to competition in environments characterised by unpredictable change, so having the ability to vary capacity, respond to sporadic changes in demand, mass customise at the cost of mass production, and compete in both mass and custom markets is crucial. Empirical...

Presents a practical exploration of business manoeuvre theory, examining the application of a developing military war fighting doctrine and how this can be transferred to the business mindscape in order to influence future planning. Suggests that attackers have strategic advantage over defenders...