Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find out and understand the role of competence management in Finnish forest company maintenance. The key questions of this paper are: what is the required maintenance competence and how can this competence be achieved? Competence needs are here...

Purpose – The purpose of this case study was to identify how the human factor influenced the 2010 acquisition of company X's cement factory, located in town C in the Brazilian State of Goiás, by the multinational company A. Design/methodology/approach – Seventeen in-depth interviews were...

Web‐based technologies are rapidly becoming an integral part of the business fabric, interwoven into most departments and functional areas. However, the consequences of adopting these innovations, such as anticipated versus unanticipated and desirable versus undesirable consequences, warrant...

Measuring the financial performance and contribution of marketing activity is a challenge increasingly faced by marketers globally. In this paper, we consider the potential effects of intra‐organisational change, particularly employee turnover or “churn”, on the measurable financial...

Because conventional financial reporting failed to prevent savings and loans crisis of 1988, the market value concept became popular. To see if CEO changes affect “how much companies are worth if sold” Fortune 500 corporations were examined from 1997 to 2002. The findings show that companies...

A number of issues which are relevant to the introduction of marketing planning into a medium‐sized product‐oriented engineering business are addressed. In addition how a tailor‐made management development programme can be used as a means of stimulating and facilitating the individual and...

Examines how R&D can learn to market itself. Draws on four intensive case studies of in‐house and independent laboratories to argue that developing this capability requires pervasive organizational change, which goes beyond the introduction of marketing specialists and the creation of...

The hypothesis that broadly defined managerial functions can be subdivided on the basis of their members′ internal and external task orientations, and that the resulting subfunctions are, respectively, predominantly “adaptive” or “innovative” in terms of Kirton′s...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend the literature on market-driven and market-driving management and analyzes the Benetton’s market orientation change from a market-driving to a market-driven orientation. Additionally, this study uses longitudinal data to measure the degree of...

Defines and evaluates transformation, and examines why transformation efforts can fail. Provides a case study, describing the context, strategy and change processes. Finally, identifies what lessons can be learned from working with failure.