quality management (TQM) in Poland and the way in which it impacted on identity of Polish managers. Design … emergence of a new post‐transition generation of managers in Poland. The paper argues that a complex combination of contextual … Polish managers and to the emergence of a new post‐transition generation of managers in Poland. Originality/value – This …

implications – This paper may help managers, as important consumers of fashionable ideas, to better understand how elements of …

questions were carefully constructed and answered by top managers according to a four‐point scale. The three hypotheses were …'s distance. Firms implement incremental changes when top managers use either short‐ or long‐distance analogies within the … strategic formulation process, whereas radical changes are implemented when top managers apply medium‐distance analogies …

experience of those involved in mergers – particularly expatriate managers. Second, the rhetoric of synergy operates not only in … part of the managers' visuals (gates, perimeter walls, signals, roads, water tanks), creating a synergetic world that is … organizational representation and practices of expatriate managers – particularly those involved in mergers, acquisitions and …

managers, and the distinction is an important one.  …

, i.e. a “manager′s model”. Secondly, the model′s focus is concerned with how a manager can go about initiating a “change …

stability′s sake, and the manager′s dilemma in having a foot in each camp, both disciplined and informal. It is concluded that …

A parable related to ethics among organizations, particularly with regard to relationships between managers and their …