Outdoor experiential training became established as one of the big HR ideas during the 1990s. The theory is that leadership skills can be honed and team spirit developed by taking employees into the great outdoors, usually at weekends. The “survival” of workers might depend, for example, on...

Few industries sailed through the increasingly choppy waters of the 1990s without, at some point, feeling a little bit queasy. Throughout the decade, as the business world became ever more competitive, firms looked to business process re‐engineering (BPR) and business restructuring to improve...

Fostering and managing innovation are now widely recognized as essential to a company’s growth and survival. There is a growing body of literature detailing ways to promote what is called corporate entrepreneurship, corporate venturing or intrapreneurship. However, for many organizations, an...