Analyses the impact of free market forces on organization characteristics. The traditional thinking about organizations is first examined. Shows that in a free market environment an organization can no longer be looked at as a static concept. A view of organizations of the future is put forward,...

Contends that, with the accelerating dynamics of competition and a move of organizations towards more dynamic approaches to strategy formulation and implementation, creativity becomes of key importance for achieving both product and operational excellence. Over the last decade organizations have...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between three concepts: organisations, transformability and the dynamics of strategy. These three concepts together with their interrelationships are central in explaining the life cycle of organisations, their survival and...

In 2005 Management Decision enters its 43rd volume. It is one of the longest-runningcontinuously published journals of record in business and management in the world.Management Decision was founded in the early 1960s, when business was starting tobloom as a discipline worthy of study and research