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Showing papers in "European Management Journal in 1985"


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TL;DR: In this paper, the PIMS model is used as a basis for the evaluation of strategic acquisitions, as distinct from investment acquisitions, resulting in some penetrating insights into some recent major acquisition experiences.

15 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the reasons why quality circles fail, including rejection of the concept by top management, uncertainties caused by redundancies and company restructuring, labour turnover, lack of cooperation from middle and first line management, failure by circle leaders to find enough time to organise meetings and circles running out of projects to tackle.

14 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a survey and interviewed senior executives of firms making divestments and of those divested, and concluded that divestment may take many forms, which arise from the strategic needs of the firms and the ways in which their environments are changing around them.

11 citations


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W. Dekker1
TL;DR: Deckker as discussed by the authors proposed a specific five-year plan of action embracing trade facilitation, VAT reform standardisation and Government procurement especially in telecommunications, which was launched at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels on 13 November 1984.

9 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the origins and correlates of change and found that an orientation towards change in its various dimensions was most closely correlated with companies which had explicit management development programs.

8 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the types and purposes of joint ventures, the practices which make them succeed, and some cautions about what might make them fail, are discussed, as well as how to get it right, and how to tell if it is going wrong.

4 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the disintegration of European financial markets means that many of the fundamental assumptions about corporate finance and strategy derived from US experience cannot be expected to apply in Europe.

2 citations


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R. Chanut1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the old concept of a dominant manufacturer who retains full initiative, can be exceeded in efficiency by real "cooperative ventures" where pragmatic organizational and cooperative behavioural solutions are used.

2 citations


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TL;DR: The growing European concern with helping management development in the emerging countries formed a basic theme of EFMD's annual conference at IMI in Geneva in May 1985 as discussed by the authors, where one of the keynote papers suggested that style approaches based upon development needs was the most appropriate way forward.

2 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that positive adoption of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) provides the best hope for European firms to recover their manufacturing competitiveness, and discusses the opportunities and problems encountered in computerising production and moving towards FMS from a strategic perspective, and concludes that it can only occur successfully if senior management are directly involved from a general systems perspective.

1 citations


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TL;DR: The authors conducted a survey of Australian company directors to ascertain their management training needs, and discovered that many of these were different from our conventional views, and that the preparation for the roles of directors is a neglected aspect of business and management development.


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TL;DR: The author analyses the Japanese challenge, and contrasts it with complacency and low levels of information awareness in Europe.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that from the information provided by Briggs and MacLennan that it is impossible to determine how carefully they have used the technique, and consequently their achieved 75 per cent "predictive" power must be open to doubt.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that marketing personnel must adapt and expand their skills in order to contribute fully to the management of high technology products and suggest ways in which some of those difficulties can be overcome.