Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present and revisit the role of rhetoric and narratives in management research and practice. Design/methodology/approach: The authors revisit the insights from previous work on the role of rhetoric and narratives in management research and introduce...

This paper reports the results of a study of the cultural influences on career systems and job promotion. The authors report the conclusions reached during the first phase of a large European study on managerial decision-making. Nearly 300 managers participated in this phase, which surveyed 25...