Application software is one of the most important elements of any information system. The most recent trend in the field of the software is, undoubtedly, migration of classic applications from centralized computer architectures to network or distributed architectures. This migration as well as...

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.

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...

Quality management is a management domain very discussed and disputed nowadays and this is the first sign it is a very modern, needed and present concept in theory and practice. Some are seeing it as a solution to prepare things in the way they are needed, and the instrument which might...

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...