Business‐to‐business, supply chain relationships within sustained monopolies, such as those within UK defence procurement, have received scant attention by management researchers. This paper describes the results from a substantial, exploratory research project that used Williamson’s...

Purpose – Informs executives of the dangers of entrapment which can occur when there is an increasing commitment to an ineffective course of action to justify previous allocation of resources when managing new projects. Design/methodology/approach – Reviews research studies on establishing...

Purpose – To test the effects of ownership structure on the strategy and performance of former state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in China. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a sample of the former state‐owned manufacturing firms listed on the Chinese Stock Exchanges before 1995, we...

Purpose – In the context of the Greek public sector, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors under which performance management and measurement systems (PMMS) work in a functional way and push through the modernization process. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the outsourcing process in the public sector, determine the effective factors involved in this process and their priorities. The aim is to develop a generic conceptual model for the outsourcing process in public sectors....

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to propose a model for understanding a complex management issue – the customer loyalty in a public sports service. Design/methodology/approach – Customer loyalty is discussed through the methodology of system dynamics. The proposed model considers the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether, and to what extent, corporate diversification into related and unrelated businesses affects capital structure choices, and whether ownership structure is germane to the understanding of corporate diversification strategies and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how contracts are used to build and develop long‐term relationships in contexts where trust cannot be expected in advance – i.e. there is a lack of initial trust. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a qualitative...

Purpose – This study aims to conceptualise the role of knowledge transfer offices (KTOs) as knowledge brokers (KBs) and identify which factors are most significantly related with their performance for supporting public‐private research organizations (PROs), testing the authors' hypothesis...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to prove the existence of significant differences between private and public corporate credibility antecedents and effects. Design/methodology/approach – Totally, 816 Spanish viewers’ valuations were obtained (408 for the public television network and...