The purpose of this review is to evaluate the status of scholarly research on Japanese management as it is applied outside Japan. The first part of the review deals with the concept of Japanese management. The second part aims at understanding how Japanese management is applied in foreign...

Given their central role in economic decisionmaking at the firm-level, one might be inclined to assume that the role of Managers and of Management, would occupy a central place in the field of Economic Geography. In existing literature from the field, however, the ‘Manager’ remains a...

Die Veränderung der Welt durch die digitale Revolution hat gerade erst begonnen. Nicht mehr nur überlegene Produkte und Produktionsprozesse entscheiden im Wettbewerb: Mit innovativen Geschäftsmodellen werden bestehende Branchen umgewälzt und neue entstehen. Der Artikel gibt einen kurzen...

This paper examines the management practices of German firms with obligations under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) based on six structured in-depth interviews with managers of firms from different industries and based on survey data. The paper sheds light on management and trading...

In this paper we account for observed management practice in the estimation of aproduction function. In our model management practice is observable and we allow it toaffect output directly (neutral shift) and indirectly by affecting input productivity. Thisformulation gives us a semiparametric...

We propose a model of production where technical change is both time and management induced. We define a general management index in addition to the general time index of Baltagi and Griffin (1988) and use them as arguments in the translog productionfunction. Time and management induced...

Application software is one of the most important elements of any information system. The most recent trend in the field of the software is, undoubtedly, migration of classic applications from centralized computer architectures to network or distributed architectures. This migration as well as...

Face aux évolutions des périodes récentes, qu’adviendra-t-il du contrôle de gestion. Alors que, dans ses fondements, la discipline fait le lien entre une approche financière et opérationnelle et une orientation organisationnelle et managériale, elle devient de plus en plus technique...

A l’aide d’une recherche empirique de trois ans, cet article souligne la difficulté, pour un chercheur en sciences de gestion, d’étudier des « sujets sensibles »(Renzetti et al., 1993). Le thème choisi pour illustrer notre propos est celui de l’échec en entreprise, abordé ici sous...

Quality management is a management domain very discussed and disputed nowadays and this is the first sign it is a very modern, needed and present concept in theory and practice. Some are seeing it as a solution to prepare things in the way they are needed, and the instrument which might...