This paper argues, based on academic research as well as personal experience, that management development (MD) functions are not always utilising their resources, either in terms of people or time, effectively. They are perceived to spend large amounts of their time on “administrative” or...

This exploratory study examined correlates of value reported by participants from an international management and business development program. Data were collected from 51 managers from the Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union who participated in a six‐week program...

A simple but effective approach to the analysis of market opportunities is outlined. It is argued that for small enterprises the link between business development and management development is clear and direct: the consequence being that useful techniques have to be explored and discovered in a...

Considers the forces shaping European Business Schools. Changes in participation rates in higher education carry implications for customer power in management education. A relevant and attractive philosophy will be required in business schools enabling them to deliver the right competences in a...

Action learning was a comparative latecomer to the lexicon of management development techniques, gaining widespread acceptance only in the 1970s thanks to the work of Reg Revans. Reviews what we have since learned about the process, how it holds up against developments like the competence...

Purpose – Research has shown that the assimilation of managers into the growing small business is a process fraught with difficulty. The purpose of this paper is to use the evolutionary approach to shed new light on the process in which the management team broadens in a growing small firm....

Purpose – This paper proposes that owner‐managers of growth firms are more likely to have developed or acquired managerial practices that facilitate such expansion. The paper, therefore, examines how growth oriented firms in Wales have adopted management practices to build the necessary...

Purpose – Relationship development is presented as an optimal strategy across all sectors of economic activity, although relationships, and their appropriateness, vary by industry sector. In order to contribute to academic and managerial understanding of relationships in professional business...

In good and bad economic times, innovation is a requisite for companies seeking to remain competitive especially in uncertain and turbulent times. Many organizations are increasingly looking to “corporate entrepreneurship” as a way of combating the lethargy and bureaucracy that often...

Purpose Despite the fact that previous studies have identified a possible mediator (organizational climate) in the HRM practices-HR outcomes link, the role of organizational climate as a mediator has, however, not been accorded the respect it deserves in the HRM practices-HR outcomes...