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Corporate Change Programmes: A False Panacea?

Nicoll, David - In: Management Decision 31 (1993) 5

Argues that groups within the organization play a significant role in enabling it to face a hostile environment. Describes how groups translate their culture into work patterns and argues that this is an important factor in any change programme. Questions the motives and effectiveness of culture...

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Interdisciplinary Models of Decision Making

Harrison, E. Frank - In: Management Decision 31 (1993) 8

Takes the view that managerial decisions are made in a diversity of organizational settings which can best be explained and evaluated in the context of conceptual interdisciplinary decision‐making models, and that such models constitute an appropriate vehicle for explaining the eclectic...

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Introducing TQM

Dale, Barrie G.; Cooper, Cary L. - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 1, pp. 20-26

Examines the role of senior managers in total quality management (TQM) and provides some pointers as to why they should …

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The Real Strategic Issues versus Organizational Bureaucracy and Administrative Neatness

Piercy, Nigel F. - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 4, pp. 5-8

Accuses management of repeatedly substituting bureaucracy and complex reporting and control systems for the things that … ineffectual, it is positively damaging to organizations. Short cases in the areas of quality management, customer satisfaction … management, and personal appraisal and development systems are given to support this argument. Concludes with a list of symptoms …

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Understanding the Causes of Business Failure Crises

Richardson, Bill; Nwankwo, Sonny; Richardson, Susan - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 4, pp. 9-22

further research into this aspect of strategic management. Draws from the management literature to describe the causes and …

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Intelligent Computer Models for Marketing Decisions

Curry, Bruce; Moutinho, Luiz - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 4, pp. 30-35

Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in the field of management. The main thrust of the work so far has been oriented towards …

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Management Considerations

Godfrey, Ronald M. - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 4, pp. 58-61

Management is not always professional in all its attitudes and actions and has often been – and still is – inadequate …

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Acknowledge and Use Your Grapevine

Cathmoir Nicoll, David - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 6, pp. 25-30

implementation of the grapevine as a part of the employee communications mix, through management by walking about (MBWA) and …

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The Use of a Simulation Methodology to Explore Human Resource Accounting

Dawson, Chris - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 7, pp. 46-52

they relate to prescriptive and descriptive approaches to the study of management. …

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Two Authority Structures in the Economy

Gunn, Bruce - In: Management Decision 32 (1994) 7, pp. 33-45

A second authority structure, called a management system, is emerging in the technological milieu of the information … the political system with the management system is an essential condition in the knowledge‐based economies of advanced …

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