Examines business process re‐engineering (BPR) from a theoretical standpoint. Elaborates on antecedent concepts to the BPR construct and highlights their usefulness in strengthening the conceptual foundation of BPR. Develops a model of BPR based on the elements of process, radical...

Purpose – The complexity of organizational decisions requires the ability to integrate diverse facts, ideas, issues, and connections into more comprehensive integrative thinking for decisions. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the relationship between common sense and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review work on the power and importance of emotional appeals from a range of disciplines including philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, linguistics and advertising. It aims to illustrate the growing body of evidence and theory that...

Purpose – Organizational resistance to technological innovations creates hurdles to diffusion of innovations in industrial technology markets. This study aims to examine the causes of this problematic phenomenon and develop useful strategies to overcome innovation resistance of organizational...

Organizational buying is an active research domain with hundreds of studies grounded in one or several of the complementary theoretical models in the literature. In recent years, however, many scholars have focussed on the importance of the buyer‐seller relationship. For many research studies,...

Purpose – This paper aims to discuss the concepts contained in communities of practice theory (COPT) and how they might contribute to greater understanding of organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws upon COPT as a means to broaden the perspective of institutional theory....