There is a constant evaluation of managerial techniques ranging from the military leadership style to self‐motivated self‐management. Team management has gone from an American concept, to a Japanese enhanced technique back to a US management and leadership tool. It can be useful for both...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply interpretive structural modelling in the clarification of the perceptions of different individuals in a managerial group in order to improve group decision making. To limit conflict and increase shared knowledge in group decision making, there is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical method to be used in team decision making when allocating resources. Design/methodology/approach – The paper proposes the following hypothesis: the selected team consensus strategy from among all available strategies must have...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a greater understanding of the role of team learning by examining the link between team centrality and organisational learning. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a conceptual paper that examines a range of literature related to team...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to explore the effects of the diversity of experience and different personalities of top management team members on mediating processes such as agenda‐setting, the generating of strategic alternatives, and the speed of strategic decision making....

Purpose – To establish the extent of the influence of variables which, under a particular style of leadership, form the necessary basis for encouraging and developing group, entrepreneurial activities carried out within the context of small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) thus explaining...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a model in which team commitment in self‐directed teams moderates the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Design/methodology/approach – Survey questionnaires measuring team commitment, OCB,...

Purpose – Research shows that teams often fail to surface and use unique information to evaluate decision alternatives. Under a condition known as the hidden profile, each member uniquely possesses a critical clue needed to uncover the superior solution. Failure to share and adequately...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate what factors drive collaborative entrepreneurship. To do so, the authors examine the joint influence of both firm resources and entrepreneurial orientation on the decision to establish interfirm alliances. The paper considers new variables...

Knowledge management is a rapidly growing, and rapidly changing discipline. While the link between knowledge assets and competitive advantage has been accepted for some time, it is not obvious how this translates into the techniques and software tools that are labelled as knowledge management...