During large scale wildfires, suppression activities are carried out under the direction of an Incident Management Team (IMT). The aim of the research was to increase understanding of decision processes potentially related to IMT effectiveness. An IMT comprises four major functions: Command,...

This is the third paper of a series of our studies in search of the wellspring of the Japanese management. We examine a traditional Japanese business philosophy focusing on Kamada Issou (1712-1804), and explore its moral implications for modern Japanese management. Ishida Baigan (1685-1744) set...

This paper is the second of our research series of the wellspring of the Japanese management. We focus on Teshima Toan (1718-1786), a Japanese moral educator in the 18th century and examine his moral philosophy from a management standpoint. When it comes to SHINGAKU, a kind of Japanese moral...

We set out to model the joint production of entrepreneurs and workers where the former provide both entrepreneurial (strategic) and managerial (coordination, motivation) services whilst management services are shared with individual workers in such a way that output is maximized. The static...

In this paper we investigate the status of corporate social responsibility (CSR) research within the management literature. In particular, we examine the focus and nature of knowledge, the changing salience of this knowledge and the academic influences on the knowledge. We present empirical...

In an empirical study of teleworking practices in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in west London, organisational factors such as management attitudes, worker autonomy and employment flexibility were found to be more critical than technological provision in facilitating successful...

In this paper we present some preliminary evidence in support of an emergent base-line structural intellectual capital model. This is based on interviews with the chief executive officers of Irish software companies. The overall Irish software and telecommunications sector has established itself...

We compare market returns associated with firms' creation of new units focused on e-business. Two aspects of organization design - governance and leadership - are considered with regard to exploitation - and exploration-oriented organization learning. We find that exploitation in governance...

We present a model for the diffusion of management fads and other technologies which lack clear objective evidence about their merits. The choices made by non-Bayesian adopters reflect both their own evaluations and the social in°uence of their peers. We show, both analytically and...

To survive in the environment of severe competition, an organization depends on innovation. Creative and innovative ideas in the multiple areas of operation from organizational strategy to product conceptualization, design, development, manufacturing and even marketing initiated by innovators...