The false promise of “what gets measured gets managed”Management Decision - Tập 38 Số 9 - Trang 612-615 - 2000
M.L.Emiliani
Discusses the importance of precise communication as a prerequisite to achieving alignment between internal and external stakeholders. Consideration is given to popular management catch‐phrases in general, with specific analysis of the widely‐used statement: “what gets measured gets managed”. The application of mathematical logic shows this to be a false statement, yet one that precipitate...... hiện toàn bộ
Content analysis and assessment of international codes of franchising associationsManagement Decision - Tập 50 Số 4 - Trang 635-650 - 2012
Francisco JavierRondán‐Cataluña, AntonioNavarro‐García, JuanGámez‐González, Carlos J.Rodríguez‐Rad
PurposeThe objective of this paper is to improve the knowledge about ethical content of franchising associations at a worldwide level.Design/methodology/approachTo do this, the authors compared the content of 46 deontological code...... hiện toàn bộ
A seller's market for management education in Britain?Management Decision - - 1967
BERNARDTAYLOR
There is common agreement today in government and in industry about the need to educate and develop British management as a means of achieving faster economic growth and more rapid technological change. As a result, huge investments are being made in new facilities for management training—in the business schools and universities, in the newly‐created polytechnics, in independent colleges s...... hiện toàn bộ
Application of the Concept of Working in GroupsManagement Decision - Tập 13 Số 3 - Trang 181-192 - 1975
AngelaBowey, RoyConnolly
The concept of working in groups has typically been applied to different industries and different levels within firms in distinct ways, and for distinct reasons. Table I shows the major types of group working which have been employed most commonly with particular technologies and organisational levels.
Managers’ Attitudes to Cost InformationManagement Decision - Tập 31 Số 8 - 1993
DavidLyall, CarolGraham
Questions the view that management accounting information has
failed to keep pace with changes in manufacturing processes over the
years and that the information currently provided is largely irrelevant
to the needs of managers. Presents a study, the results of which suggest
that this may not, in fact, be the case and that managers generally do
find information on standard costing and budg...... hiện toàn bộ
Individual choice or institutional practiceManagement Decision - - 2010
StevenTello, ScottLatham, ValerieKijewski
PurposeThis paper aims to examine the degree to which individual technology transfer officers' heuristics and biases, as well as peer technology transfer institutions' practices, influence the technology commercialization decision‐making process.Desig...... hiện toàn bộ