The purpose of this review is to evaluate the status of scholarly research on Japanese management as it is applied outside Japan. The first part of the review deals with the concept of Japanese management. The second part aims at understanding how Japanese management is applied in foreign...

The paper proposes the measurement of managerial and functional capabilities of the organization, as the dimensions of managerial potential, based on the configurative theory and not on the reductionist one. The components of the managerial potential are fulfilled by the capability of building...

Distinguimos entre educación para la calidad y entrenamiento para la calidad. A través de la educación, aprendemos la ‘filosofía’ de la calidad; a través del entrenamiento, aprendemos sus herramientas. Así, el aprendizaje es un concepto central de este artículo. Pero no es el único....

The purpose of this review is to evaluate the status of scholarly research on Japanese management as it is applied outside Japan. The first part of the review deals with the concept of Japanese management. The second part aims at understanding how Japanese management is applied in foreign...

Berkshire Hathaway, the $300 billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book proves them wrong. In a...

When planning for a major organizational change, a company's top management should take into account how the human brain's threat & reward system operates, in order to plan and foresee how the change message should be effectively communicated to the company's ranks, so a leveled playing field...

The theory of servant leadership has been considered a grey area within leadership literature, as certain perspectives suggest the theory to resemble an oxymoron as it focuses on service and leading others. However, literature reflects servant leadership to have a positive impact on organization...

There are some movements within the project management profession to adopt a new posture regarding project failures. According to this new line of reasoning, failure should be embraced since it provides a learning opportunity to firms (Gino and Staats, 2015; Edmondson, 2011). This paper takes a...

The purpose of this review is to evaluate the status of scholarly research on Japanese management as it is applied outside Japan. The first part of the review deals with the concept of Japanese management. The second part aims at understanding how Japanese management is applied in foreign...