Purpose – The paper aims to provide comments on Michailova and Jormanainen's paper, “Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?” ( CPoIB , Vol. 7 No. 3). Design/methodology/approach – The paper offers a critical analysis of issues...

Purpose – The paper seeks to provide a commentary on Michailova and Jormanainen's viewpoint entitled “Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?”( CPoIB , Vol. 7 No. 3). Design/methodology/approach – The paper offers a critical...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to summarise the characteristics of, and results from, a large‐scale project to promote productivity improvement throughout Turkey's provinces. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the aims and approach of the project leading to a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to summarise key conclusions from a multidisciplinary review of the state of the art of research into organisational performance management, in particular how research can aid and involve practitioners. Design/methodology/approach – This Special Issue...

Purpose – This paper seeks to provide an invited response to the Michailova/Jormanainen paper ( CPoIB , Vol. 7 No. 3) . Design/methodology/approach – The author adopts a subjective approach to respond to the Michailova/Jormanainen paper and challenge/develop further some of the authors'...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a response to the viewpoint by Michailova and Jormanainen under the title “Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?” ( CPoIB , Vol. 7 No. 3). Design/methodology/approach – The author...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a response to four commentaries on the original viewpoint entitled “Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?” ( CPoIB, Vol. 7 No. 3). As a response, the paper reflects on several points...

Purpose – This paper aims to encourage thinking beyond the limits of obsolete and superficial “warfare marketing” by exploring potentially useful lessons from modern military intelligence and strategy for marketing intelligence and planning. Design/methodology/approach – Key contemporary...

The paper focuses upon the issue of the transfer of ideas between countries and cultures in the field of small and medium enterprise (SME) development. It argues that there has been a neglect of such work in academe. Yet there has been a growing import into the UK of ideas from abroad (mainly...

This paper comments on Allan Gibb’s keynote address to the Small Business and Enterprise Conference earlier this year reproduced in this issue of the Journal. Gibb offers a critical assessment of the ways in which small business theory and research and policy making have handled the transfer...