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. Findings – The paper finds strong evidence that a religion‐based framework might enrich the sensitive topic of decision …‐making processes in organizations. Practical implications – Overall, the paper strives to show that intuition and prayer are two faces …
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beliefs about the practice of business. A new construct is presented for conventional management practice that shows how … leader’s beliefs lead to behaviors, which, in turn, lead to competencies that most managers would find undesirable. The … beliefs, behaviors, and competencies of leaders skilled in the lean management system are presented in contrast and shown to …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the relation between beliefs and action in common sense judgment. The … by their situation, beliefs, and resources. Practical implications – The model has promise for analyzing individual and …
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Employees communicate more easily and are more committed to the organization when beliefs and values are shared …. Explores the phenomenon of sudden “lost meaning” – a situation in which individuals who strongly share the organization′s …
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Explores the issue of rumour and gossip in organisations. Given that rumour and gossip can break the harmony of the workplace unless well managed, it is rather surprising that they have not been sufficiently examined in management and organisational studies. In addition to providing an analysis...
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Decribes how ESC, a holding company for a gas and electric utility and non‐utility energy business, completed the acquisition of Oracle’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution (finance and related applications) at a cost of US$6.5 million in March 1997. From initiation to completion,...
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theory, based on prospect theory, to explain how risky strategies are determined within organizations. They argued that …
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Management researchers, academics and educators and self proclaimed management gurus have produced an enormous literary output on the topic of management and organisations over the past 100 years or so. There is no dearth of information available to practitioners on almost any topic in this...
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Tenure, the permanency of employment offered to university professors, is discussed in the context of an institutionalized practice. This article examines the bases of legitimacy of this institution, specifically as a mechanism to protect academic freedom and trade‐off for higher pay. An...
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According to recent developments in decision‐making theory organizational decisions are governed by organizational values and identities according to a logic of appropriateness rather than calculative and preference‐driven rationality. Similarly, leadership theory has developed from ideas...
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