Purpose This study aims to provide prescriptions through a practitioner lens to managers and leaders wishing to cultivate an organizational environment characterized by employees’ voluntary open upward communication. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents a two-step progression to...

Managers understand the rationale for investing in new products, but now face an even more compelling need: to invest in targeting new markets, specifically those in less developed countries (LDCs). The argument presented here for initiating or increasing marketing efforts in these nations makes...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to offers the authors’ perspective on a problem rarely considered by those making strategic decisions: conflicting laws at different levels of jurisdiction, specifically those related to stigmatized products. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use...