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...

Abstract External environment of an organization includes a variety of factors, whose existence, influence its behavior and performance. The action of these factors may be direct (for example, the actions of competitors) or indirect (for example, changes in business climate), and external...

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....

Abstract Current social and economic environment is in continuous change and transformation and adaptation to existing conditions are favourable, a painful adjustment to reflect loss of comparative advantage, particularly important for some communities. Global disruption which affected the whole...

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 research identified the capabilities used by Canadian hotel general managers during a time of economic stress and examines the relationships between capabilities and hotel performance. The instrument used in this study was the New Zealand Management Capability Index (NZIMCI) and contains...

Borders of countries and continents have become more and more blurred by now, while distances have turned out to be less important. Markets of continents or countries are not separated anymore therefore competition between companies has gotten fiercer and much faster than earlier. What kind of...