This research explores the impact of gender on managerial styles, especially the strategic typology employed by hotel managers in Canada during economic stressful times. Miles and Snow’s strategic typology framework of defender, prospector, analyzer and reactor was employed and explored...

This case is one of a series of cases on strategy, organization and management of technology headed by Jens Frøslev Christensen at Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School. The objective of these cases is twofold: to generate empirical inputs from business...

Dans certains cas les missions de conseil en management n'atteignent pas les objectifs escomptés et provoquent d'incroyables gaspillages. Cette analyse présente les causes d'échec de la relation consultant-consulté.

The article shows a surprising way of how management consultant's daily practices play a role in managers' decisions. Beyond the traditionally recognized roles of consultants (high level staff, energy catalyst), we pinpoint the importance of information transmission and the ambiguity of this...

Dans le présent chapitre, nous nous efforcerons d'explorer la question de la mise en scène en focalisant notre attention sur le rôle du consultant en management. Ce dernier, nous le verrons, est utilisé par le manager comme un adjuvant précieux dans la fabrique quotidienne de la stratégie....

La littérature en sciences de gestion montre que les pratiques transgressives sont présentes dans toutes les organisations. Un type d'écart à la règle a été insuffisamment traité toutefois : les transgressions quotidiennes, connues de tous et accomplies par tous, qui sont d'une gravité...

This paper suggest a typology of possible sources of synergies. The paper further proposes that companies cannot exploit all opportunities for synergy because these may require coordination which might add costs that more than offset the advantages gained. The cost of coordination in turn...

This paper suggest a typology of possible sources of synergies and relates the different types of synergies to corresponding types of coordination mecha-nisms. The propositions regarding the relationship between different types of synergy and different coordination mechanisms are illustrated...