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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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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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Strategic change leadership
Graetz, Fiona - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 8, pp. 550-564
primary task of management today is the leadership of organisational change. Seeks to examine the role of leadership in … leading change effectively. Also investigates the view that effective change leadership involves instrumental and charismatic … the importance of blending the charismatic and instrumental dimensions of change leadership. The ability to conciliate and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014932209
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A mathematical logic approach to the shareholder vs stakeholder debate
Emiliani, M.L. - In: Management Decision 39 (2001) 8, pp. 618-622
Uses an innovative approach to analyze the long‐standing claim that companies exist to maximize shareholder value. Five statements supporting this claim are tested using mathematical logic. Each one is found to be false. The community of business theorists, consultants, academics, and...
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Determinants of organisational creativity: a literature review
Andriopoulos, Constantine - In: Management Decision 39 (2001) 10, pp. 834-841
creativity, namely organisational climate, leadership style, organisational culture, resources and skills and the structure and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014932239
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Implementing NAGPRA: the effective management of legislated change in museums
Abraham, Morris; Sullivan, Tim; Griffin, Des - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 1, pp. 35-49
A survey of 19 museums across the USA sought to identify the change processes associated with the effective management of a specific case of legislated change imposed by The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act 1990 (NAGPRA). Interviews were also conducted with a sample of...
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The mutability of charisma in leadership research
Paul, Jim; Costley, Dan L.; Howell, Jon P.; Dorfman, … - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 2, pp. 192-200
history of leadership research. Religious, societal, and organizational phases in the conceptualization of charisma are … identified. The mutability of charisma has extended charismatic leadership theory from the domain of theology to multiple facets … organizational cultures. These pluralistic conceptualizations of leadership and charisma have broadened our understanding of …
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Strategic thinking versus strategic planning: towards understanding the complementarities
Graetz, Fiona - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 5, pp. 456-462
In an environment characterised by flux and uncertainty, a capacity for innovative, divergent strategic thinking rather than conservative, convergent strategic planning is seen as central to creating and sustaining competitive advantage. As the case study of Communications Co. illustrates,...
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The charismatic gaze: everyday leadership practices of the “new” manager
Ball, Kirstie; Carter, Chris - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 6, pp. 552-565
During the last 20 years, there has been an explosion in the production and dissemination of a number of highly popular managerial concepts. These initiatives, such as TQM and BPR, highlight a number of themes. Refers to these new movements as “new managerialism”, supported by new...
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