Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the issues of how business people perceive the business environment, how government policies impact the environment and how the environment impacts the establishment processes and position development of new firms in the Eritrean market. The...

Purpose – To present the application of a business model for holistic uncertainty management for twenty‐first century manufacturing enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey is carried out to UK manufacturing enterprises to collect relevant data, and analysis of...

This paper discusses how a systems approach to management can be used to facilitate the development and implementation of an integrated management system (IMS) in an organization. It is argued that any solution to address the rapidly growing need for the integration of function‐specific...

Purpose – This study was conducted to examine supply chain discontent in an integrative way. Design/methodology/approach – The organisational economics view is adopted as an approach to reveal multiple sources of discontent which consist of incongruent objectives, disintegrated performance...

Purpose – The paper aims to propose a web‐based “intermediation hybrid architecture” for a workflow management system that integrates services by exploiting and combining the advantages of strict centralized topologies that use workflow engines, with totally distributed systems which use...

Purpose – This paper intends to open up the debate on the influence of language on the way multinational companies manage their subsidiary operations. Design/methodology/approach – The authors explain the importance of the field and expose a dearth of prior research. Subsequently, they...

The process of business decline can be identified through various warning signals that are concomitant with the decline process. These warning signals are noticed in both the internal and external business environments. The successful turnaround of a failing or declining business requires that...

Purpose – The purpose of the research was to discover to what extent franchisees supported the direction the company was taking as determined by the board of directors. Specifically, franchisees were invited to comment on corporate policies, initiatives and values that they were expected to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek comment on a proposed new model for measuring and monitoring the sustainability of corporate governance. Design/methodology/approach – The unprecedented combination of the scarcity of finance, low growth, and environmental pressures, together...

Purpose – This article aims to draw on the contingency theory to develop a conceptual model of compatibility between corporate environmental responsibility and business strategy that reflects heterogeneity in this relationship. Four dimensions of compatibility are explored: trade-off,...