Outlines an approach to management which questions conventional rationality, and suggests that dynamic capability in organizations needs to be based on new thinking drawn from science, logic and ideas drawn from cultures beyond the Anglo‐Saxon. Begins by exploring the modern paradigm on which...

Product innovation is vital to ongoing brand equity and has been responsible for revitalizing many brands, including Apple, Dunlop Volley, Mini, and Gucci. While several scholars have noted the relationship between a brand's position and the form of innovation available to a firm, surprisingly...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present empirical evidence on how and why a poor rural community is engaged in certain calculative practices, and how these are embedded in a “total institution” defined in terms of “relations of production” and “relations in production”....

Examines the validity and reliability of affective, continuance and normative commitment in the Jordanian context. Using a self‐administered questionnaire, 1,000 employees were surveyed. The study questionnaire was piloted in three industrial firms before being used in the main study. The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of organizational values from the management by values perspective and develop an understanding of the features of well‐functioning organizational values in the context of management by values. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to propose a wider and more humanistic understanding of the phenomenon of trust and “trust building” through a dialogue between ethics and social sciences. Design/methodology/approach – This paper offers a constructive critical review of the explanation...

Contends that managers from Saudi Arabia and other Middle East nations, as well as from other areas of the world, are becoming more conscious of the critical role that managerial values can play in today’s ever widening and increasingly competitive marketplace. Alignment of personal and...

Proposes a framework for increased awareness of ethical issues within the police service, in the context of a society which no longer accepts authority without question. Discusses the problem of ends and means in decision making, and stresses that there must a reference point or ethos, which is...

Provides a good illustration of the disparate strands of thinking on the subject of strategy. Highlights and discusses the descriptive schools: strategy as vision; strategy as thinking; strategy as learning; strategy as politics and power; strategy as culture and ideology; strategy as imposed...