Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, to analyze the impact of Chinese managers’ psychic distance (PD) with Germany on their businesses; and second, to investigate whether managers’ previous experiences affect their PD. Design/methodology/approach: A multiple case study...

Purpose: Academic research on management consulting or having management consultancy as the main research field is huge as the sector is a strategic one for management innovation, but a systematic and updated literature review is missing. This paper aims to fill this gap by providing a...

Purpose: This study aims to assess the effect of peer evaluations on team-level effort, productivity, motivation and overall team performance. Design/methodology/approach: This study explores the impact of a peer evaluation system on 895 multicultural and transnational global virtual teams...

The seemingly incompatible objectives of highereducation excellence and local economic development are examined using a casestudy of the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Interviewees believed that practices and attitudes of the University ofTwente favored private sector and competitive...