Showing papers in "European Management Journal in 1987"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether the detente might lead to a growth in imports of industrial goods from Eastern Europe by the U.S., or whether buyer attitudes were likely to inhibit this.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the methods of assessment and evaluation, training and development practices on and off the job, and offer some insights into the corporate skulduggery employed by supervisors trying to retain high performing subordinates, or create the impression that non-high performers should be promoted as if they were high performers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a number of cases from consultancy to show that the new CEO has to produce cooperation between functions, unlocking the potential of the computer system and combining this with an operational vision shared throughout the organization.

TL;DR: In this article, the basic characteristics of various types of free zones and then examines them from two perspectives: the traditional view, in which zones are seen mainly as convenient production locations or duty-free areas for short-term warehousing; and a contemporary strategic view, where zones were seen as an integral part of international business strategy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review some of the major issues in the current globalisation dispute in marketing and argue that there is a need to disentangle the separate issues, for example, international, multinational from global firms; centralisation (which is internal/organational) from standardisation (external/market-driven); marketing procedures (organisation, planning and control) from marketing strategies and operations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the development of the management consulting industry within Europe, and in particular the U.K., and examine its future prospects, and examine the potential of the industry in the UK.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the way in which institutions learn, i.e. how management innovations are introduced and diffused, and look at total quality control and quality circles, and the likely future for these techniques.

TL;DR: In this article, the basic traits leading a person to success in management are creativity, desire for responsibility, concern for results and ambition, while the fundamental skills and knowledge enhancing his career are sound planning, communication, leadership, organization and methods.

TL;DR: In this article, a case analysis is reported of a programme of entrepreneurship, in which we try to concentrate upon practicing and training and crucial leadership qualities. But leadership itself is threatened by becoming obsolescent, so, more of the same leadership revitalization practices will not help.

TL;DR: Melitta as mentioned in this paper adopts the principle of "as much standardisation as necessary, as much differentiation as possible" with an increasing trend towards standardisation, with an interesting case study.

TL;DR: The new Commission has begun its work, and Jacques Delors, the President, gave an account of his major policy thrusts as discussed by the authors. Although politically extremely guarded, he had some things to say of interest to managers.

TL;DR: In this article, it is emphasised that banks need to develop positive, committed and anticipatory strategies in the current environment and that marketing is likely to become an even more important and fundamental driving force for European banking strategy in the future.

TL;DR: The use of conventional historic cost accounting during periods of inflation leads to the overstatement of profit; this in turn may result in overdistribution of resources which should have been used to preserve the income-earning base of the firm as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the convergence of these two trends, based principally on studies of INSEAD MBAs, was analyzed and suggested that they offer new challenges to established views of human resource management.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the term "marketing warfare" to describe some forms of marketing behavior used by companies, and concluded that marketing warfare between competitors actually takes place, and that the answer is a very definite "yes".

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate a healthy organisational growth from entrepreneurial beginnings, and introduce the concept of Entrepreneurial Aides, which is based on the idea that entrepreneurship is cyclical and should be selfrenewing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that Japan's industrial progress is associated with weak unions and cultural uniqueness, and that they depend much more heavily upon long-term corporate human resource strategies, conscientiously applied.

TL;DR: The most important reason for increasing internationalisation is the exploitation of the company's best ideas and the biggest single constraint is the need to internationalise the corporate culture as discussed by the authors, however there will always be a role for national and multinational approaches more adapted to different national markets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the advantages and disadvantages of the policy of innovation promotion in West Germany and evaluate the main points in order to decide how effective these new economic stimulants have been.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the findings of a research project which asked the foreign investors about their motives for investing as well as their reasons to divest, concluding that whereas some foreign firms still see the Irish industrial environment as attractive the same proportion sees it as no longer profitable.

TL;DR: The authors of as discussed by the authors suggest that organizational change methods can be a valuable tool provided that managers use the techniques, rather than allow themselves to be used by them, and that they can be used to improve productivity and product quality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report findings from an empirical research study of the Polish machinery industry carried out by a team from Warsaw Technical University, which aims to show the role and importance of material and non-material motivations in encouraging, developing and directing innovative activity in the machinery industry.