Draws attention to a serious shortcoming associated with the usual audit models which use traditional techniques such as regression analysis. In general, previous studies have concentrated only on the impact of the resources used by an organization on its performance indicators, and have ignored...

Reply to comments on the author′s original article (article and comments in AAAJ , Vol. 5 No. 1, 1992) – a postscript. Emphasizes that policy makers do seek recourse to statistical methods when trying to understand the nature of public sector efficiency, and regression analysis has...

This paper presents experiences gathered by the author during a twelve‐month period in an enterprise agency, Tyne & Wear Enterprise Trust Ltd, providing a service to small and medium‐sized manufacturing firms in the fields of product diversification and innovation.

Purpose – This paper uses the strategy‐as‐practice perspective to explore the relationship between practices and organisational routines of governance in pluralistic contexts. The purpose of this paper is to explore empirically how strategising activities and organisational actions...

If our experience is typical, management development advisers can find themselves relatively isolated and removed from continuous contact with management. Information to plan an overall management development strategy is often not available to them and their effectiveness is confined to dealing...