As the field of performance management (PM) progresses, the focus of the debates shifts from the design of performance management frameworks to the issues that become relevant at the stages of implementation and use, namely, the necessity to understand PM systems as a part of the organization...

This paper offers a critique of the micro-foundations agenda by arguing that excessive attention to macro-level concepts and their origins threatens to derail the true potential of micro-foundations research – the resurgence of the interest in micro-level phenomena. The paper offers a critical...

Resource-based advantages are ‘built', not bought, and have typically emerged from complex development processes that are, to a significant degree, ‘unmanaged'. Set against this reality are strategy process prescriptions that encourage managers to adopt deliberate, formal, analytical...