Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illuminate change processes in Vietnam, China, and the USSR. Design/methodology/approach – “Policy ethnography” may be used to examine the emergence of policy rationalities that may or may not be locally feasible. Through the use of a conceptual...

Purpose – This paper seeks to understand the evolution of financial intermediation in the course of China's economic transition. Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on a unique data set collected by the authors and other collaborators from a 1998 survey of financial...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address this gap in the literature by examining a cohort of Indonesians employed within a financial organisation and the cross‐cultural transition stresses that they and their families encountered when relocated within Indonesia....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide new practical viewpoints and a framework regarding the management of technology transition from old to new technology through an in‐depth case study of Fanuc. Design/methodology/approach – Due to the exploratory nature of this research and...

This is the second article dealing with the changing nature of work, the previous one having been published in Industrial and Commercial Training , Vol. 35 No. 5. This deals with the managerial responsibilities for managing an organisation through a change process to maintain current levels of...

Recent research at Harvard University has shown that the adjustment period required for new or redeployed managers can be as long as 15‐18 months. Businesses can significantly reduce this time by taking steps to help the transition of its new managers using “xcelerate” – a highly...

Purpose – Changing the way organizations change has become the fourth and perhaps most pressing challenge every organization faces today. This insightful and practical paper aims to describe a holistic, integrated approach organizations can use to build the necessary leadership capacity...

The competitiveness of the transition countries depends on the ability of their companies to develop successful new products. Using 14 success factors proposed by Cooper and Kleinschmidt, their impact on the success of Slovenian new products was analysed, in order to obtain information needed to...