Serves as an introduction to the special issue on the strategic use of the past and future in organizations published in the Journal of Organizational Change Management . The issue of how organizations and their members appropriate the past and future in the context of organizational identity is...

Purpose – This paper aims to look at the role of the top and middle management of the Philips organization during the transition from one type of organizational change to another in the 1990s and the role the history of the organisation played in this process. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – Applications of information technology have been directly responsible for the increase in productivity of business, government and academic activities. Business and management historians have yet to contribute to better understanding such processes. This paper aims to address this...

Purpose – In this paper aims to interview Walter Kiechel III about his book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World , and the lessons it offers for today's managers. Design/methodology/approach – In this interview, Strategy & Leadership asked Walter...

Purpose – This paper intends to describe examples of entrepreneurial growth and defensive strategies used by smaller firms against larger and aggressive competitors. It aims to focus specifically on the use of strategies of deception, which, for the purposes of this discussion, are defined as...

Reports a pilot study of the relative importance of import decision variables as rated by Australian managers. A systematic sample of 104 Australian managers representing different companies participated in the study. Australian importers rated product quality as the most important variable when...