Purpose – In the early 1990s, a number of controversial and radical initiatives were introduced by the Australian Government that had a compounded impact on higher education in general, and for the teaching of accounting studies in particular. The impacts of these initiatives have now lasted...

To succeed in an industry an organization must select a mode of strategic behaviour which matches the levels of environmental turbulence, and develop a resource capability which complements the chosen mode. Investigates UK building societies and identifies three distinct modes of strategic...

Details the process whereby multivariate interdisciplinary measures of potential to perform are integrated with performance measures to develop models of retail performance for bank branches. The predictive models use the key business drivers of a major trading bank as dependent variables....

Presents an American view of how British corporations have renewed their efforts to improve the development of managers. Examines management development practices at five corporations to identify the kinds of programmes being instituted to enhance managers′ skills. The results reveal some...

Focuses on the lessons learned by a CEO during a long career of successfully managing several different large organizations during major “turnarounds”. The lessons are on the barriers faced to implementing changes, why the changes were needed, what approaches were used to build support for...

Explores the notion of strategic learning through a case study. The case is used to identify a model of the learning process. Readers are invited to analyse issues in their current role to produce a map of strategic issues.

Presents findings of research into culture change among middle managers. Middle managers from 46 privatized organizations in the UK formed the survey group, and their attitudes towards the process of privatization and the culture change from public to private sector were recorded and discussed....

Outlines some ideas to help companies create a culture which supports middle management development. Ideas are based on research findings among privatized companies and other academic research. Presents a number of recommendations to encourage organizations to re‐evaluate the role of their...

The objective of this paper is to understand innovators' pursuit of strategies in securing the benefits from an innovation. The study develops a methodological framework of platform for analysing three case study innovations – Windows‐operating system for PC, plain paper copier and video...