Outputs (678)

Leadership on an industrial journey: An interview with Sir John Parker, Chairman of the National Grid (2008)
Journal Article

© 2008, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to interview Sir John Parker, Chairman of the National Grid. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of an interview. Findings – Sir John Parker shares... Read More about Leadership on an industrial journey: An interview with Sir John Parker, Chairman of the National Grid.

Are we asking the right questions? Closing the academic/practitioner gap in strategic management (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Enhancing post-acquisition organisational performance: The role of the top management team (2008)
Journal Article

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to address the link between the effectiveness of the top management team (TMT) and post-acquisition organisational performance. Design/methodology/approach - The paper undertakes a literature review, identifies... Read More about Enhancing post-acquisition organisational performance: The role of the top management team.

The triple helix strategy for universities in developing countries: The experiences in Malaysia and Algeria (2008)
Journal Article

This article addresses issues relating to the policy shift in developing countries aimed at making universities increasingly relevant to the socio-economic milieu by promoting the 'triple helix culture' as a sustainable basis for innovation and techn... Read More about The triple helix strategy for universities in developing countries: The experiences in Malaysia and Algeria.

Identifying high technology small firms: A sectoral analysis (2008)
Journal Article

This study explores the use of existing categorizations in classifying high and low technology firms such as the standard industrial classification (SIC). Such classifications tend to be applied to firms in a blanket fashion rather than on a systemat... Read More about Identifying high technology small firms: A sectoral analysis.

Automotive production: product variety and how emerging economies can avoid problems of industrialised countries (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Revisiting knowledge warehousing: Theoretical foundations (2008)
Journal Article

Ever since the late 1990s, different research communities have used the term 'knowledge warehousing' to refer to several types of IT-based tools. An extensive review of the literature on this topic revealed that existing approaches to knowledge wareh... Read More about Revisiting knowledge warehousing: Theoretical foundations.

Toward a framework to assist servitization strategy implementation (2008)
Journal Article

Advice for manufacturing companies to increase their attention to opportunities downstream of production had grown loud by the mid 1990s. Accompanying this advice lay warnings of generic, implementation issues to be addressed in the journey downstrea... Read More about Toward a framework to assist servitization strategy implementation.

Infantilized adults or confident consumers? Enterprise discourse in the UK retail banking industry (2008)
Journal Article

In this paper we examine the implications of enterprise discourse within the context of a culture of consumption. Drawing on empirical work on the UK retail banking industry we demonstrate how retail banking in the UK is central to constructing 'conf... Read More about Infantilized adults or confident consumers? Enterprise discourse in the UK retail banking industry.

Case study on Haldiram’s: India’s answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Western companies are opening up their factories and offices in India in an unprecedented manner and thus creating a need to study the organization and management of their Indian counterparts. The emergence of India as an economic power over the rece... Read More about Case study on Haldiram’s: India’s answer to the McDonald’s and the Pizza Huts.

The project of life: Generalizing spiritual theory for applied project management research and the interconnections (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This is an inter-disciplinary systemic research work. This work is not an inter-religion comparison and attempts to establish a relationship between the disciplines of project management and spirituality. In doing so the literature review was conduct... Read More about The project of life: Generalizing spiritual theory for applied project management research and the interconnections.

Counterfactual history, management and organizations: Reflections and new directions (2008)
Journal Article

This article reflects on the papers published in the Symposium on 'Counterfactual History in Management and Organizations'. After describing the background to the symposium we review some important themes in the multidisciplinary domain of counterfac... Read More about Counterfactual history, management and organizations: Reflections and new directions.

Adoption and use of E-commerce by small businesses in the UK tourism industry (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents a quantitative study of 90 small tourism businesses in the South West of the United Kingdom. It examines the factors that influence the adoption and use of e-commerce and the types of e-business that these organisations undertake.... Read More about Adoption and use of E-commerce by small businesses in the UK tourism industry.

The other side of projects: the case for critical project studies (2008)
Journal Article

© 2008, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this research note is to articulate the limitations that project management (PM) currently faces by outlining the PM literature’s frequent neglect of political, social and ethical d... Read More about The other side of projects: the case for critical project studies.

The reflexive consumer (2008)
Journal Article

Drawing on a detailed reading of the work of Peppers and Rogers (1993, 1997, 2004, 2005), this paper argues that their work offers an emblematic problematization of traditional mass marketing, which articulates a new mentality of marketing — collabor... Read More about The reflexive consumer.

Improving the aerospace supply chain: a preliminary assessment of an industry-level intervention (2008)
Report

The objectives of the study were to
1. Evaluate the SC21 initiative in relation to the changing industry context and consequent customer company requirements; and current trends in supply chain management; 2.Examine the impact operating within a co... Read More about Improving the aerospace supply chain: a preliminary assessment of an industry-level intervention.

Managing knowlege resources for sustainable competitive advantage (2008)
Journal Article

Building on previous research which showed that the loss of staff could have a significance impact on
the out-turn performance of a project; this work seeks to explore the relationship between knowledge
management and human resource management. To... Read More about Managing knowlege resources for sustainable competitive advantage.

A post-mortem evaluation of an IT project: a case study of a process enhancement IT-project in a maintenance, repair and overhaul company (2008)
Journal Article

The present work represents a post mortem evaluation of an SAP-IT project. It focuses on critical success factors
(CSF) in order to establish an appropriate guideline for the project evaluation.
A review of contemporary project management literatur... Read More about A post-mortem evaluation of an IT project: a case study of a process enhancement IT-project in a maintenance, repair and overhaul company.

Developing an enterprise wide knowledge warehouse: challenge of optimal designs in the media industry (2008)
Journal Article

It has been common practice among organisations to develop standard operating procedures to gain advantages like standardisation, ensure continuity, and deal with contingency needs. Over time, processual perspectives of activity within organisations... Read More about Developing an enterprise wide knowledge warehouse: challenge of optimal designs in the media industry.

Influence of software trade on development of web-enabled governance initiatives: comparative perspectives of Indian and UK experiences (2008)
Book Chapter

Growth and sustenance of local democracy, enabling public (especially developmental) policy formulation and facilitating direct service delivery to resident population are three complementary expectations that e-governance could be directed to fulfil... Read More about Influence of software trade on development of web-enabled governance initiatives: comparative perspectives of Indian and UK experiences.