Purpose – One of the key decisions in becoming international is the standardization versus adaptation of the products for foreign markets. Previous research has mostly seen these alternatives as polarized opposites, even if it seems that the practitioners must nearly always adopt a certain...

The patterns of adoption of quality management practices and techniques vary across national boundaries. This article presents the findings of a questionnaire survey into the quality management procedures and tools adopted in three European countries, the UK, Portugal and Finland. A total of 450...

The work in this Special Issue was born in the Employee Engagement stream at the 2013 UFHRD Conference. Employee engagement is a growing area for academics and practitioners interested in organisational learning, organisational development, employer relations, leadership, management, human...

Purpose – Researchers are keenly searching methods of analyzing, developing and implementing multi‐focused strategies. This is a challenging task because they are quite difficult to structure and, therefore, to assimilate. This study aims to present a new method that can be used further to...

One of the main criteria of any PhD thesis is that it must provide new knowledge – either new results in support of a theory, or point to a new theory. New theories, typically, are by their nature “possibly generalizable” – a starting point of research, rather than definite proof. In our...

Purpose – The purpose of the research was to develop a simple self‐evaluation model and tool that would be based on the preferences of improvement areas of all the stakeholder groups and that also would be possible to use in all European countries. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Surgical learning and guidance on operative risks and potential errors -- Learning from errors: critical incident reporting in nursing -- Learning from errors in dualvocational education: video enhanced instructional strategies -- Emotions, coping and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to deal with the importance and obstacles of outsourcing strategy in project business in terms of product development perspectives. This strategy is intrinsically analyzed and evaluated with respect to the strategic business environments....