The strategic leadership research stream characterisd by the predominantly instrumental upper-echelon research stream has provided extensive support for the strategic choice school of thought. In recent years it has been ctiticised for failing to develop from an exploration of whether...

The broad field of managerial and organizational cognition (MOC) has diversified over the years. Where early studies of MOC focused on theories of rational conscious thought, illustrated for example by schema theory, over the years we have seen explorations of unconscious processing, heuristics...

This book explores the methodological frontiers of managerial and organizational cognition (MOC), an exciting and divisive interdisciplinary body of work that began with the publication in 1958 of James G. March and Herbert A. Simon's classic work Organizations. Entering its fourth decade, the...

Exploring the management of innovation is a largely interdisciplinary endeavour. It requires scholars to address problems from a variety of perspectives that include strategic, operational, technological and behavioural. The problem domain includes the management of innovation, technology...

Any organization must ask three interrelated questions in order to develop its strategy: where are we, where do we want to be, and how will we get there? Given today's realities, how should companies answer these questions? In this book, leading business school academics use their...

Purpose – This paper sets out to introduce the special issue on management controls and new organisational forms. It summarises and reflects on themes and findings raised in the papers in the issue. Design/methodology/approach – The findings reported in the paper are based on desk research...

Purpose – Inter‐firm relationships are increasingly being adopted as competitive tools. However, the challenges created by these relationships for the design and use of management control systems (MCS) have been well documented. The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the...