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Market Opportunity Analysis for Emerging Technologies

Mohan Reddy, N. - In: Management Decision 28 (1990) 8

Speeding technology to market, and to the right market, is increasingly held out as the hallmark of well run technology‐based organisations. This paper details an inexpensive methodology to evaluate the economic viability of technologies that have potential applicability in a broad range of...

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Information Strategies: Motor Dealerships and the Porter Thesis

Roberts, L.; Brown, D.; Pirani, M. - In: Management Decision 28 (1990) 7

In a study of 116 Volvo dealers and 146 Ford dealers, attitudes towards the use of information technology as a method of creating competitive advantage were examined. Based on Porter′s work it was hypothesised that in the British market Ford operates as a broad focus cost leader whilst Volvo...

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Principles of Business Ethics: Their Role in Decision Making and an Initial Consensus

Carroll, Archie B. - In: Management Decision 28 (1990) 8

This article describes how ethical principles can be used in the decision‐making process. It describes a survey conducted amongst a group of managers and business students, who ranked a number of ethical principles in order of usefulness and applicability to their work. The otion of the...

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Engineering and Manufacturing Managers of the 1990s Part 1: Capturing the ″Raw Material″

Hawkins, Peter; Barclay, Ian - In: Management Decision 28 (1990) 4

The recruitment of engineering (and science) based graduates and their subsequent development to managerial status is discussed. The problems that organisations experience in the recruitment process are described and ways in which the success rate can be improved are suggested.

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Crisis Management: Selecting Communications Strategy

Barton, Laurence - In: Management Decision 28 (1990) 6

For decades, managers around the globe assumed that “crisis management” referred to the sudden appearance of a … definition of crisis management, as public expectations of corporate behaviour on each continent has given rise to the need for … proactive crisis management planning, an attribute some companies have sought too late and others too hurriedly. “Rules” of …

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Transfer Pricing – Choice

Galway, Albert - In: Management Decision 28 (1990) 3

An examination of the philosophy and methodology of transfer pricing is provided. The concept of transfer pricing is that, within a manufacturing company, one department, on transferring its output to another department, should regard this transfer as a sale and that there should be a definite...

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Marketing Redefined

Grönroos, Christian - In: Management Decision 28 (1990) 8

‐orientated emphasis requires a fresh management approach, seeing marketing less as a specialist function and more as a part of overall … management responsibilities. The implications of this, as regards ′part‐time marketers′ and the keeping of promises, are also …

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Developing Successful Market Intelligence: A Case Study

Skyrme, David J. - In: Management Decision 28 (1990) 1

market intelligence in the company, the author discusses the management of the service, particularly the eed for constant …

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Corporate Codes of Ethics

Schlegelmilch, Bodo B.; Houston, Jane E. - In: Management Decision 28 (1990) 7

Business ethics is an area growing in importance for business managers. Research in the USA suggests that three‐quarters of major corporations have specific codes of ethics, and in the UK some 40 per cent (and increasing) of major organisations have codes of ethics. This article explains a...

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Managing Plateaued Employees

Savery, Lawson K. - In: Management Decision 28 (1990) 3

Plateaued employees can present problems for managers in that they do not respond to the usual motivators, such as promotion or career development. For this reason, managers need to understand something of the psychology of the plateaued worker in order to be able to get good, consistent and...

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