This paper researches the buyer I Multi National Corporation's (MNC's) pre contract award relationship when developing strategy capability with a view to the development of a good practice model at this interface. The research was based on the use of transaction cost and duration as comparative...

In this paper we present the results of a study analyzing the impact of an entrepreneurial company’s initial organization on the structure of its reward and incentive systems, using data from entrepreneurial firms in Germany. The results suggest that the educational level of employees has the...

This study tests marketing theory concerning market orientation in the context of the chartered surveying industry. Using data collected in a mail survey from 179 UK general practice chartered surveying firms, it is found that firms with more risk tolerant senior managers and more formalized and...

The differential social control embedded in core and periphery values indigenous to a cultural setting, and the availability of resources in that setting, are discussed as critical factors for the effective adaptation of organizations and management practices transferred across cultural...

Application of contingency frameworks to management accounting research comenced in the mid 1970s and dominated organizational level research throughout the 1980s. Despite this popularity there have been persistent criticisms directed at issues of theory and method. This paper reviews...

Adoption of the divisional for M of organisation structure has been explained with reference to size. The present author (Donaldson 1982a) has argued against this view and asserted that strategy is a more compelling explanation theoretically and empirically. Grinyer (1982) has defended the...