Company executives rely on new product development teams to carry out their directives and make decisions according to management’s goals and objectives. However, new product team members bring their own motivational perspectives to strategic decisions. This research examines how individual...

We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry in the late 19th-early 20th century, the first episode of successful industrialization outside of Western Europe and the United Sates. By integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing...

Varying impact of digitalization is felt on all organizations irrespective of their sector/industry. The milieu is relatively under researched for the manufacturing sector. Complexity of the situation is further intensified by volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous conditions (VUCA) of...

Purpose – Against the background of current leadership theory, this research paper analyses and compares the leadership approaches of two outstanding leaders: Daniel Vasella, chairman of the leading Swiss pharmaceutical organization Novartis and Ricardo Semler, owner of the Brazilian...

The International Standards Organisation's ISO 26000 on social responsibility supports organisations of all types and sizes in their responsibilities towards society and the environment. ISO 26000 recommends that organisations ought to follow its principles on accountability, transparency,...

This study presents nine Italian cases of SMWT adoption. The powerful role of trade unions in Italy has made it difficult to use this practice for increasing pressure on the workers. In only three cases the introduction of SMWT took place simply as a means of broadening, rotating and partially...

The paper reports the results of a survey of top executives of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs). We reveal the prevailing types of job contracts and the use of monetary and non-monetary benefits, and find the similarities with and differences from such...

This paper proposes and estimates a two-step methodology to measure international managerial skill and calculate its impact on firm performance, using a sample of the biggest private Colombian exporting firms. The first step quantifies the manager’s organizational capital contribution to...