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The use of multiple intelligences to enhance team productivity
Green, Anna L.; Hill, Aretha Y.; Friday, Earnest; … - In: Management Decision 43 (2005) 3, pp. 349-359
Purpose – To provide practitioners and researchers with a framework for using individuals' multiple intelligences (MI) to enhance team productivity. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a general review paper that examines how the theory of MI as espoused by Gardner may be used to...
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Positively Seeking Excellence
Ranson, Stewart - In: Management Decision 27 (1989) 5
New trends and developments in the management of education are revealed. This article assesses the extent to which the management style of “excellent organisations” can be applied to education authorities.
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Between a rock and a hard place: a case study of escalation
Drummond, Helga; Kingstone Hodgson, Julia A. - In: Management Decision 34 (1996) 3, pp. 29-34
Organizations often seem to persist with decisions long after any sensible person might have given up. It is thought that such persistence results from foolhardy behaviour by decision makers motivated mainly by emotional factors such as pride and fear of failure. Analyses a case of a failing...
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Decision making during organizational change: observations on disjointed incrementalism in an Australian local government authority
Jones, Robert; Gross, Michael - In: Management Decision 34 (1996) 7, pp. 23-32
Examines the nature of managerial decision making during the process of a programme of workplace reform at a major local government authority in New South Wales, Australia. Draws parallells between the synoptic and disjointed incrementalist approach to decision making during organizational...
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The effects of normative social belief systems and customer satisfaction on rural savings programs in Ghana
Dadzie, Kofi Q.; Winston, Evelyn; Afriyie, Kofi - In: Management Decision 41 (2003) 3, pp. 233-240
bank program in Ghana. The results show that considerations of these influences beyond income alone provide stronger … approach used in Ghana differed significantly across state owned commercial banks, foreign multinational banks, and rural banks … mobilization programs in Ghana and elsewhere in Africa are discussed.  …
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An empirical study of perceived strategic value and adoption constructs: the Ghanaian case
Saffu, Kojo; Walker, John H.; Hinson, Robert - In: Management Decision 45 (2007) 7, pp. 1083-1101
/managers from the membership of the Ghana Club 100 (GC 100) and non‐traditional exporters (NTEs). Established databases are not the … norm in Ghana, and GC 100 and NTEs had membership databases that were accessible to the local co‐author. Investigating e …
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Intellectual capital and bank productivity in emerging markets: evidence from Ghana
Alhassan, Abdul Latif; Asare, Nicholas - In: Management Decision 54 (2016) 3, pp. 589-609
productivity growth of 18 banks in Ghana from 2003 to 2011 while the Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC) is used to measure … Ghana. The authors also find human capital efficiency and capital employed efficiency as the components of VAIC that drive …
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Agri-food supply chain performance: an empirical impact of risk
Nyamah, Edmond Yeboah; Jiang, Yuansheng; Feng, Yi; … - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 5, pp. 872-891
respective thresholds affecting agri-food supply chain operations in Ghana. In addition, it seeks to understand the relationship … between the major risk sources and to fathom the risk/disruption impact on agri-food supply chain performance in Ghana. Design … performance in Ghana. Findings The results in this paper show variations in risks’ probability, impact and threshold in agri …
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Re‐negotiating and re‐affirming in cross‐border marketing processes: a learning‐based conceptual model and research propositions
Vaux Halliday, Sue; Cawley, Richard - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 8, pp. 584-595
Relationship marketing is the paradigm which is currently seen to offer insight into the internationalising process. This paper takes these concepts and links them together with notions of culture and learning in novel ways. The knowledge impacts of national and corporate culture need to be...
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What happened is prologue: creative divergence and corporate culture fabrication
McLarney, Carolan; Chung, Edward - In: Management Decision 38 (2000) 6, pp. 410-419
Culture is an overarching phenomenon that helps individuals make sense of their world. However, culture is not an unchanging “given.” Members of a society actively create culture and, through their activities and interactions, sustain or change this culture. In an organizational setting,...
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