Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of career plateau (hierarchical plateau and job content plateau) and supervisory career support on career satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – A random sample of 119 IT professionals employed full‐time in offshore...

This paper deals with the energy management of a photovoltaic based power station. This power station includes storage units with batteries for long-term energy supply and ultracapacitors for fast dynamic power regulation. According to the availability of the primary source, the level of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is twofold: to investigate whether it is meaningful to use the Engineering Index (Ei) classification scheme for browsing, and then, if proven useful, to investigate the performance of an automated classification algorithm based on the Ei classification...

Purpose – This paper aims to clarify the apparent confusion on the work impacts of business process re‐engineering (BPR), specifically, the level of empowerment and work monitoring, through the conceptual lens of Panopticon. Design/methodology/approach – An intensive case study at the...

Purpose – To provide a concise briefing on the most topical issues and relevant implications from the top 400 management publications in the world. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the argument...

Managers and entrepreneurs are increasingly being challenged to respond to a world where it is harder to effectively make and implement their decisions. Over half the decisions managers make are never implemented. We have observed entrepreneurs and managers in a wide range of situations in...

Most manufacturing systems are large and complex and operate in an uncertain environment. One approach to managing such systems is that of hierarchical decomposition. This paper reviews the research devoted to proving that a hierarchy based on the frequencies of occurrence of different types of...

Examines the contemporary discourse on environmental sustainability, organizational change and transformational leadership in the larger context of a shift from a dominator to a partnership model of social and ideological organization. Traces the historic tension between these two models, and...

The study has origins in paradoxical foundations: although the trends in the theory of organizational change emphasize organizational uniqueness, in a case study it was found that metacultural ideals about the rules, order, hierarchy and predictability were privileged and had a remarkable effect...