was that productivity increased in a situation where management control over daily operations was diminishing. Managers …

Like those in other sectors, managers in community-based organisations face an uncertain and challenging future … community sector managers. While some reflection on the implications for managers of current economic and social policy contexts … is crucial for this sector, research effort needs to be focused on understanding how third sector managers construe their …

The aims of this study were to investigate what kinds of personal work goals managers have and whether ethical … organisational culture is related to these goals. The sample consisted of 811 Finnish managers from different organisations, in … managers self-reported goals: (1) organisational goals (35.4 %), (2) competence goals (26.1 %), (3) well-being goals (12 …

speaking, disapproval of unethical research conduct has grown across the board in the last 20 years for both managers and … environment. Compared to marketing researchers, managers tend to think that unethical research conduct occurs more frequently …. Those who conduct marketing research or use its findings (i.e., marketing researchers and managers) are less tolerant of …

The aim of this study is to investigate why managers use management accounting techniques. Therefore, a qualitative … an important role for management and control. Taking a philosophical stance, the case study illustrates how managers use … legitimate actors within the firm. Accordingly, the study shows how management accounting can support managers’ activities of …

polarisation. Furthermore, the survey carried out confirms the existence of some effective behaviours of public top managers … to br drawn. Practical implications - The result of this research implies that "ideal" competences of public managers …

managers acquire knowledge via a variety of different channels which are often difficult to track down and quantify. By … matching employer–employee data with trade data at the firm level we show that the export experience acquired by managers in …. Moreover, export knowledge is decisive when it is market-specific: managers with experience related to markets served by their …