The notion of globalization was an emerging trend during the course of the past century, and the notion of progress has been a basic tenet of the Western paradigm throughout the entire past millennium. Given the desperate situation in which large segments of the world find themselves and the...

In the 1960s, portfolio management led to conglomeration as management shifted its focus from competition to cash flows. However, dramatic changes in the business environment have put into question the fundamental logic of conglomeration as it became necessary once again to build sustainable...

Purpose – This paper aims to review the rise of the resource-based theory (RBT) in light of the perennial tension between rationalism and behaviorism. The authors appraise the RBT’s strengths and its potential fault-line, the erodibility of resources. Design/methodology/approach – A...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to analyze the impact of the external environment on the emergence of particular forms of transformational leadership. Design/methodology/approach – To develop a conceptual model, the extant literature on environment and transformational leadership...

Selecting the best robot for various applications is further complicated by the impracticality of physically modelling available robots in order to make an educated choice. Various methods have been proposed in the literature for tackling the robot selection problem. Some of these methods have...

This study has a dual thrust. "Substantively", it revisits Chandler's pragmatic fit-performance directive (Chandler's 'efficiency thesis') or his assertion that firms whose structure matches their strategy become more effective than mismatched firms. It is important to revisit the empirical...

This study revisits Chandler's seminal work <italic>Strategy and Structure</italic> (1962) empirically. This work helped fashion the notion of strategic fit as well as the need for new organisational forms. Chandler's fit-performance thesis proposes that firms which match structure to their strategy will become...