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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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Managers as kings: Shakespeare on modern leadership
Egan, Michael - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 5, pp. 315-327
Discusses Shakespeare’s Chronicles and their links to organizational behaviour. Highlights lessons from history for those seeking to exercise power successfully and manage both individuals and groups.
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The Godfather theory of management: an exercise in power and control
Scarnati, James T. - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 9, pp. 834-841
elimination of individuals within either the organizational structure or the leadership team. Discusses a systematic method for …The Godfather theory of management is a power and control model of leadership. Explains a process whereby leaders can …
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Organizational citizenship behavior: a case study of culture, leadership and trust
Appelbaum, Steven; Bartolomucci, Nicolas; Beaumier, Erika; … - In: Management Decision 42 (2004) 1, pp. 13-40
leadership style, low trust environment and weak corporate culture; H2 : low employee citizenship is a direct result of low … leadership style and a specific culture resulting in high employee satisfaction were also questionable. Moreover, it was not … management employ the following action plan: do not change current leadership style; develop an action plan to increase trust …
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Formal Controls and Team Adaptability in NPD Projects
Detzen, Nina - 2018
process autonomy, on team adaptability and project success in new product development (NPD) projects. Target rigidity refers … project team is free to choose ways to achieve its goals. Team adaptability is considered a key factor that explains the … autonomy support team adaptability. Furthermore, team adaptability mediates the impact of formal controls on project success …
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Anatomy of a merger: behavior of organizational factors and processes throughout the pre‐ during‐ post‐stages (part 1)
Appelbaum, Steven H.; Gandell, Joy; Yortis, Harry; … - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 9, pp. 649-662
The multiple organizational factors impacting on a merger as well as those processes being impacted on throughout the merger process will be examined. First, the issue of constant and lucid communication and its importance throughout the merger and acquisition (M&A) process will be addressed....
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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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The messy history of OB&D: how three strands came to be seen as one rope
Dent, Eric B. - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 3, pp. 266-280
The George Washington University organizational behavior students have been privileged to learn from professors who were students of three different founders of the field. The three strands discussed here are Roethlisberger and the Harvard Business School, Kurt Lewin and NTL, and Herzberg. This...
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Theorising path‐dependency: how does history come to matter in organisations?
Greener, Ian - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 6, pp. 614-619
Contends that path‐dependency provides an accurate, but under‐theorised description of organisational behaviour. By incorporating insights from actor‐network theory, we can better understand the processes by which organisations become “locked‐in” to behaviour patterns, but also how...
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An entrepreneurial logic for the new economy
Barton Cunningham, J.; Gerrard, Philip; Schoch, Herbert; … - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 8, pp. 734-744
Managers and entrepreneurs are increasingly being challenged to respond to a world where it is harder to effectively make and implement their decisions. Over half the decisions managers make are never implemented. We have observed entrepreneurs and managers in a wide range of situations in...
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