Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand what was important to managers of businesses in desert Australia … studies. In Study 1, 88 managers of business in remote desert Australia were interviewed. In Study 2, 112 managers who had … limitations/implications – Future research needs to encourage a larger number of managers to participate. In addition, suppliers …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether managers can acquire strategic skills using management … students go on to be successful managers in large and small organizations, partly due to their educational background … on soft skills, suggesting that development of strategic skills may help managers grasp the bigger‐picture implications.  …

capability. Further discussion is extended to the roles played by institutional factors in organizational strategic decision … for organizational strategic decision making is emphasized. The paper contributes to research in dynamic capability by …

more relevant to managers. In this paper the focus in on the views of marketing managers concerning the relevance of … researchers did not understand the realities of business life and could not communicate effectively with managers. Marketing …

healthcare budgets. This paper analyses the contrasts and overlaps between the perceptions of healthcare managers and actual …

competitive information activities of small businesses. The research involved a survey of small business owners and managers in …

management of change is vital with the emphasis on quality rather than quantity. Managers themselves must also change and, as the … free market becomes essential to the development of MIS, teachers from the West will be required to upgrade decision making …