Traditionally, strategic management has been analyzed from an economic perspective, with approaches aiming at understanding the mechanisms underlying firms' performance. The most relevant theories, such as the structure-strategy-performance paradigm by Porter for the analysis of competitive...

A sample of 48 managers and 308 staff members of a community health care organization took part in a study to investigate the influence of participating in an upward feedback program on leadership behaviour, both as indicated be self-ratings and subordinates’ ratings. The research design...

Human resources represent one of the most important factors for the achievement of a high organizational and institutional performance. The main objective of this study is to estimate the organizational performance and to see how it matches with characteristics of job and employee skills, and...

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...

Findings on key elements regarding the language of publication of research in Management, particularly in relation to the case of researchers who do not use English, and on multilingualism in the area.

Dans le cadre de sa politique industrielle, le Gouvernement français a labellisé en 2005 71 pôles de compétitivité afin d'améliorer la performance de ses entreprises et de ses territoires. Le Pôle Européen d'Innovation Fruits et Légumes (PEIFL) qui en est issu se donne pour objectif...

The paper analyzed the new concept of European management model, which has two important dimensions: ethic and communication. In conclusion, I show that throughout business we can see how people appreciate a certain relationship or interaction with other people by how they "keep or remotely....

Face aux évolutions des périodes récentes, qu’adviendra-t-il du contrôle de gestion. Alors que, dans ses fondements, la discipline fait le lien entre une approche financière et opérationnelle et une orientation organisationnelle et managériale, elle devient de plus en plus technique...

A l’aide d’une recherche empirique de trois ans, cet article souligne la difficulté, pour un chercheur en sciences de gestion, d’étudier des « sujets sensibles »(Renzetti et al., 1993). Le thème choisi pour illustrer notre propos est celui de l’échec en entreprise, abordé ici sous...