Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine asset class cross‐autocorrelations at the macro‐level by exploring the return associations among mutual fund asset classes. The low transactions costs of trading mutual funds make this extension important since informed traders can...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the characteristics of situations where managers analogise, and when they change to a different decision model; examine how the analogies are evoked, what characteristics they have and how they are used, and add to the understanding through...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe and explains the development of the evolving mental phenomenon of alternative history. Design/methodology/approach – The article analyzes the role of the fiction known as the “What if?” school of speculation about the past, some of its...

Purpose – The authors illustrate how the Dynamic Scenario Learning Process works in practice. Design/methodology/approach – A case showing how “Forward Bank” used the DSLP to discover crucial inter‐relationships that were not intuitively obvious. Findings – Forward's scenarios...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the export-led growth hypothesis for South Asia, a diverse region consisting of one large country, India, surrounded by a number of medium and small countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the export‐led growth hypothesis for South Asia, a diverse region consisting of one large country, India, surrounded by a number of medium and small countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives....

Purpose – This paper presents a system‐based approach to action‐directed knowledge management. This approach, known as system‐based knowledge management (SBKM), allows one to respond to the observations made by previous writers that knowledge management should be cognisant of the...