1 Introduction: Corporate Ownership -- Part I Hardware: A Value Creation Framework -- 2 The Primacy of an Owner’s Mission -- 3 The Board of Directors: Governing the Mission -- 4 The CEO and the Executive Team: Responsible for Executing the Mission -- 5 Goals, Strategies, and Fundamentals -- 6...

Fair process research has shown that people care not only about outcomes, but also about the process that produces these outcomes. For a decision process to be seen as fair, the people affected must have the opportunity to give input and possibly to influence the decision, and the decision...

The last decade has seen a growing consensus that manufacturing matters. The factory as the producing unit is the core of the firm's manufacturing activities. However, even now, it is not agreed on or even fully understood what constitutes a well-managed factory. This article attempts to create...