`Scientific management` is the label Frederick Taylor attached to the system of shop-floor management devised by him. In this article we present our discovery of very different `scientific` management principles that, roughly concurrently with Taylorism, were developed by German...

African Floodplains in semi-arid areas are important for local livelihoods but are under pressure and contested. Case studies from Mali, Cameroon, Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana present the change in the management of common pool resources in these wetlands and provide a comparative...

Front cover -- Enhancing Competences for Competitive Advantage -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Lobbying: strategies to make a firm's competences generate value -- Introduction -- Theory -- Method -- Results -- Summary and outlook -- References...

Einführung -- Die Herausforderung ‚Diskontinuierliche Innovation’ -- Forschungsdesign und empirisches Feld -- HAUPTTEIL -- Grundlagen einer ressourcenorientierten Perspektive -- Organisation individueller Ressourcen -- Berücksichtigung von Ressourcenverbindungen -- Ein ressourcenbasiertes...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of technological resources and external research partners on the export performance of Italian high-tech small and medium firms (SMEs). Methodology/approach – Drawing on the resource-based view as theoretical framework and...

Purpose – We analyze the influence of the internationalization process of small and medium-sized enterprises on the adoption of a proactive environmental strategy. Design/methodology – Using direct interviews with the CEOs of 106 Spanish export firms from the food industry, we tested our...

An issue of managing a business (unit) as a whole successfully is perceived to belong to the fundamental issues within strategic management. This paper proposes that a business unit can be managed successfully in short and longer term in its focal contexts as a set of three recursive,...

The competence-based management approach has shed light on how firms represent open systems that link assets, strategic logic, and capabilities in order to create new competences. Nonetheless, we find that there are too few empirical studies that illustrate how competences are distributed within...

Purpose – We outline a novel perspective on the role the allocation medium plays in how groups allocate resources fairly. Building upon recent research that demonstrates the unique norms invoked by the resource of money, we propose that what individuals’ judge to be a fair allocation...

New developments in concepts and approaches to job stress should incorporate all relevant types of resources that promote well-being and health. The success resource model of job stress conceptualizes subjective success as causal agents for employee well-being and health (Grebner, Elfering, &...