The last two decades have been characterized by accelerated technological innovations, fanned by rapid developments in global telecommunication and information networks, and the lowering of trade barriers among nations. These developments have made globalization one of the most dominant forces...

A changing global landscape calls on us to consider the management of organizations in a new manner, as the theme of the 2010 Eastern Academy of Management conference indicates. Uncertainty arising from the natural environment is a daunting challenge presented by this shifting landscape. This...

What role did foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) play in South Africa's transition to democratic rule? At best, corporate codes of conduct, adopted by foreign MNCs as an alternative to sanctions, provided comfort for only a few South Africans, mostly company employees. Only disinvestment...

Middle managers were asked to report in a questionnaire what they perceived to be the effect of the contextual variables of decentralization and environmental uncertainty on the strategic role of management information. The respondent middle managers worked for a foreign subsidiary of a large,...

Much of management theory is based on the writings of early 20th-century Western scholars whose disciplinary orientations were heavily grounded in economics and classical sociology. These writings depict homo sapiens as an individualistic, utility-maximizing, transaction-oriented species. In...