Purpose – To provide practicing managers and consultants with advice about common pitfalls encountered in diagnosing the causes of organizational decline. Hopefully, the paper will help managers and their advisors avoid these pitfalls. Design/methodology/approach – Reviews common problems...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the applicability of developed country turnaround predication models as well as an “in country” developed turnaround prediction model for a sample of financially distressed Malaysian companies over the period of 2000‐2007....

Purpose – To help top managers correctly identify sources of decline or difficulties in the business. Design/methodology/approach – The author, who has conducted research on corporate turnaround attempts, identifies ways in which top managers can come up with incorrect or incomplete answers...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between chief executive officer characteristics and corporate turnaround performance of declining firms attempting turnaround. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 60 US manufacturing firms that experience...

There is a tendency to associate business “closure” with business “failure”, confusing owners that close a business with ‘unsuccessful’ entrepreneurs. This article reports on a study into the experiences of business owners who have left their business. Three stages of research,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the theoretical and ideological foundations for a research agenda on the social economy in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combines relevant literature research and case study work in a selected geographical region in...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the institutional and social determinants, and consequences of social entrepreneurship with respect to China's rural enterprises. It also attempts to provide a conceptual framework concerning how rural Chinese enterprises act as social entrepreneurial...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the theoretical and ideological foundations for a research agenda on the social economy in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combines relevant literature research and case study work in a selected geographical region in...