Interorganisational decision making on creativity appears to have similar characteristics to those of the conventional organisational buying process. The composition of decision‐making units correlates closely with the costs and risks involved in decisions on new campaigns, extended campaigns...

Five hundred financial executives from North American companies were surveyed by means of a mailed questionnaire to gain a view from outside the operations functions of the basis on which aggregate inventory decisions are taken. The response indicated that more functions than might have been...

The majority of make or buy decisions are invoked in the name of “cost”, but the two case studies outlined in this paper demonstrate that cost is only one of a multitude of criteria which managers need to evaluate in this strategic decision. Also highlighted are the difficulties in...

Without a formulated quality management policy and a direct lead from the chief executive, companies are unlikely to be able to effectively co‐ordinate quality‐related decision making; consequently, the approach to quality tends to be inspection orientated. Results of a study on how...

Decision making is considered an important topic in management studies. However it is postulated that current thinking in decision making is out of date and inapplicable in today's organisations. Hence, a more realistic approach needs to be considered. A political framework is offered as the...

This article attacks, in a novel way, the continued gulf between the theory and practice of maketing. By adopting the tools of organisational behaviour, drawn particularly from information processing theories of organisation and models of organisational power and political behaviour, the writer...

The wider involvement of people in the decision‐making processes of an organisation is attracting increasing attention. This article explores why this should be and draws some wider implications.

This paper shows that the measure of diffusion introduced by Ian Rowlands called the journal diffusion factor (JDF) is highly negatively correlated with the number of citations, leading highly cited journals to get a low JDF, whereas less cited journals get a high JDF. This property reduces the...

Purpose – This paper aims to present the findings of an investigation into environmental reporting practice in the airline sector. Design/methodology/approach – Evidence was gathered from an international survey of 272 IATA Airlines. Responses accounted 65 per cent of the world's scheduled...

Purpose – To provide the basis for the development of a specific benchmarking methodology for the foundry industry. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology was developed with the support of the Portuguese Foundry Association (APF). The project was structured in two stages: developing...