Examines organisational learning in a lean supply arrangement between a multinational buyer and its local suppliers. Looks at how organisations learn and unlearn. Reviews buyer‐seller relationships. Presents a lean supply model that combines the essence of learning and buyer‐seller...

Purpose – Entrepreneurial passion has recently begun to fascinate a growing number of researchers. While only a few systematic studies exist, Cardon et al. 's review suggests passion as a prevalent phenomenon among entrepreneurs. They make a call for empirical and systematic studies of...

This volume investigates the relationship between economic globalization and institutions, or global governance, challenging the common assumption that globalization and institutionalization are essentially processes which exclude each other. Instead, the contributors to this book show that...

Summary Most project management research to date has developed extended theories and concepts that de-contextualize projects from their cultural and institutional surroundings. Such de-contextualization tends to highlight instrumental factors and considerations, while at the same time...

The general problem in emerging economies is that there is no well-defined system that supports a balanced relationship between management and other stakeholders of the firm. This paper describes how emerging systems of corporate governance in the Baltic States have interacted with economic...

Overview -- Systematic Idea Production, and Cultivation in High Techproduct Development -- User Centered Design of Telecommunications Services -- Product Development Generations: Some Lessons from Personal Digital Assistants and Palmtop Computers -- Project Portfolio Management in...

The term “fashion” triggers images of frivolous symbolic production with a particular impact on women, quite a world apart at first sight from high technology and mobile telephony that traditionally tend to be associated with science, rationality and masculinity. Surprisingly, we show in...