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The business of memes: memetic possibilities for marketing and management

Williams, Russell - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 4, pp. 272-279

Introduces the business community to the new science of memes. The roots of the meme concept from Richard Dawkins’ original work in the area of biology to the social (business) world are outlined, and the value of its study (memetics) proposed. One claim from memetics is that it can help...

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Leadership theory and practice: a “case” in point

Armandi, Barry; Oppedisano, Jeannette; Sherman, Herbert - In: Management Decision 41 (2003) 10, pp. 1076-1088

Leadership theory has little value if it cannot be applied to real world situations. A summary review of the literature on leadership theory is provided here first. A disguised real case concerning Ted Shade, a Vice‐President at Galactic Chips, Inc. is then provided which describes a manager...

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Decision making as a simplification process: new conceptual perspectives

McKenna, Richard J.; Martin‐Smith, Brett - In: Management Decision 43 (2005) 6, pp. 821-836

Purpose – Proposes to call for inclusion of alternative conceptual perspectives in decision making theory and practice. Design/methodology/approach – Adopts a conceptual approach drawing on a diverse range of theories, and applying an illustrative example. Findings – Finds that...

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Designing the strategic planning process: does psychological type matter?

Jennings, David; Disney, John J. - In: Management Decision 44 (2006) 5, pp. 598-614

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the empirical literature concerning the design of the strategic planning process and its relationship to environmental, organizational, strategic and psychological factors. The paper aims to focus on psychological type and its...

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Anxiety and defective decision making: an elaboration of the groupthink model

Chapman, Judith - In: Management Decision 44 (2006) 10, pp. 1391-1404

Purpose – This article sets out to revisit Janis' groupthink theory that holds that, when anxiety is present for a decision‐making group, premature concurrence seeking emerges unless other mitigating factors are present. Research from selected segments of the decision making literature are...

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Bad apples in bad (business) barrels

Li‐Ping Tang, Thomas; Chen, Yuh‐Jia; Sutarso, Toto - In: Management Decision 46 (2008) 2, pp. 243-263

membership (bad apples vs good apples) measured at Time 2 and investigate possible differences between business and psychology … students in unethical behavior. Design/methodology/approach – Business and psychology students' propensity to engage in … cluster membership at Time 2 for the whole sample and the business sample, but not for the psychology sample. The differences …

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The nature and value of common sense to decision making

Zhao, Sheng - In: Management Decision 47 (2009) 3, pp. 441-453

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine, from management perspective, the nature of common sense, its application in decision‐making, and possibility of developing common sense more effectively. Design/methodology/approach – To take typical dictionary definitions of common sense,...

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Sustainability managers or rogue mid‐managers?

Tang, Kevin; Robinson, David A.; Harvey, Michael - In: Management Decision 49 (2011) 8, pp. 1371-1394

sustainability growth. Originality/value – This research has helped to deal application of existential psychology theories to … complement corporate sustainability. The findings more or less confirm the usability of major existential psychology theories to …

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The Power of Impression Management

Drummond, Helga - In: Management Decision 31 (1993) 3

impression”, regardless of their competence or capacity for hard work. Explains the psychology of impression management and …

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Decision Making in Health Service Managers

Ormrod, John - In: Management Decision 31 (1993) 7

The literature on managerial decision making has typically espoused rationality. It contends that managers follow, or should aspire to follow, a rational approach to decision making. This article argues that this rarely occurs. It proposes that managers form a personal and simplified “model”...

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