Observes that information is becoming the most powerful of modern business tools and, as companies internationalize, managers are going to be faced with more to handle. Discusses Senn′s properties of information and presents an analytical tool for managers to use when presented with ew, or old...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate differences between experts and laypersons concerning the way they assess the importance of each of the various decision attributes (cost, risk, feasibility) taken into consideration during decision processes in an organizational setting....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how the nursing division supervisors at hospitals perceive intellectual capital (IC) and identify the relative importance of IC factors. Design/methodology/approach – Using literature review combined with experts’ viewpoints, IC is divided...

Purpose – This paper aims to study the relationship between intellectual capital disclosures (ICDs) and the relative importance of intangible assets as company value drivers. Design/methodology/approach – Annual reports of Swedish, British and Danish firms are analysed to measure the extent...

Purpose – This paper aims to present an augmented subjective risk management process that can partially solve the problem of inconsistent results in qualitative risk management. Note that “subjective” in this context is to separate this risk management process from the purely statistical...

The successful businesses of the future are being created today by individuals and teams in tune with fast‐moving technologies, new markets and changing lifestyles. New disciplines have sprung up, new professions are born and new skills are in demand. There is a need to blend the new skills...

Managers frequently ask questions that may be sensitive or threatening. The answers that come back may be disingenuous, owing to social desirability bias which has two sub‐divisions: personality and item characteristics. The first refers to an overall tendency for an individual to respond in a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate optimal decision methods under a cooperative situation in two-echelon logistic models. Design/methodology/approach – The authors propose the optimal strategies of exporters in the three types of rival game behaviors: Stackelberg,...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to improve the knowledge about ethical content of franchising associations at a worldwide level. Design/methodology/approach – To do this, the authors compared the content of 46 deontological codes of franchising associations from five continents to...

Addresses the question of how the Marketing Mix framework can be used to analyse the competitive standing of a business organization and how the outcome of this analysis can then be translated into practical tactics which capitalize on the organization′s strengths. The MIXMAP model developed...