Showing papers in "European Management Journal in 2003"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the results of a study on the motives of corporate headquarters in large European manufacturing firms for engaging in outsourcing and the risks they perceive to be associated with strategic outsourcing operations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the results of a research project addressing the current state of e-procurement technologies and indicate that the final equilibrium may include several technologies, each one serving a different segment of the market.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the architecture of blat and guanxi and some of the similarities between them and argue that personal networks in Russia and China are products of specific cultural heritages and as such have their own particular configurations and characteristics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the possibility that the Internet may not be an unmitigated blessing for SME business strategies and show that despite recent setbacks to the dot-com sector, SMEs are placing e-commerce at the centre of their technology and corporate strategies and plan to use the Internet as a means for achieving transformational change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed the creation of a "reputation index" that would capture key dimensions and evaluate diverse organizational components including corporate strategy, financial strength and viability, organizational culture, ethics and integrity, governance processes and leadership, products/services, strategic alliances and business partnering, and innovation along with information already contained in the corporation's annual report.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors define human capital as the composite of an individual's intellectual, social and emotional capitals, and suggest some new ethos that such "volunteer" employees need to adopt as they take greater personal responsibility for both developing and deploying their personal human capital.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that IT outsourcing management has two sides: the hard side refers to the contract and the soft side referred to trust, and that the interplay between these two techniques can lead to a virtuous circle.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a preliminary discussion on the emerging phenomenon of micromultinationals (mMNEs) and suggest that the prevalence of mMNEs seems to be growing and explore the objectives that the mMNE may seek.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of semi-structured interviews with 29 senior managers, spanning three continents and 11 firms, present insights on knowledge management approaches and strategies being undertaken, and discuss challenges faced in executing global knowledge management initiatives.

TL;DR: The majority of studies on market orientation claim compelling evidence exists that market orientation has a positive effect on business performance as discussed by the authors, however, there is no unequivocal evidence as to if and when market orientation had a positive impact on the business performance.

TL;DR: It is suggested that multimodal imagery of strategy, which brings together verbal/narrative, visual/imagistic, and kinaesthetic/haptic nodes, can significantly enrich people's understanding of their organization and its strategy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the perceived importance of crisis planning by small business managers and found that the experience of an actual crisis event by a business generates concern for future crises, if concern is generated more from the occurrence of a crisis event or from the presence of crisis management team.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that for organisational transformation to occur, an organisation's members need to evolve new tacit knowledge about the way they interact both with each other and external stakeholders, and how they co-ordinate their activities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a binary logit model is applied to quantify the relationship between the individual firm characteristics and the probability that a particular measure of success will be greater or lower than the average for all firms considered.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the results of an empirical investigation into the dynamic multi-media domain in The Netherlands and study the impact of mission statements on the performance of a mission statement.

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical study of the world's 49 largest retail multinational enterprises (MNEs) was conducted and only one MNE was found to be a global MNE, while five were bi-regional.

TL;DR: In this article, the conditions for successful knowledge sharing and learning in interorganisational alliances are examined and two case studies located in The Netherlands present some inter-personal conditions for knowledge sharing in alliances.

TL;DR: It is shown how the design of computer-mediated environments influence the kinds of learning processes that are likely to unfold as business professionals interact with one another across time and space barriers.

TL;DR: This paper explored the performance impact of recent changes in foreign shareholdings and boardroom reforms in Japan and found that although participation of outside directors in strategic decision-making was associated with positive stock returns, the increase in the ratio of outside shareholders, the separation of the board members and executive officers, and the reduction of board size were not related to firm performance.

TL;DR: A trade-off between short and long-term performance arises because acquisition integration has opposite effects on the strength of the organizational linkages between target and acquirer, and on the continued innovative capacity of the target firm.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between brand value and shareholders' value using the Brand Asset Valuator® for the years 1993 and 1997, and found that the expected relationship between the expected relationships between the two measures was confirmed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that organizational identity may be as influential as culture in affecting the integration process, especially in mergers of equals, and they also suggest that the framing of a merger as one of "equals" is itself likely to reinforce existing organizational identities by setting up an expectation of strict equality in all aspects of the merger.

TL;DR: In this article, a web-survey of Danish partner firms engaged in international strategic alliances is used to explore the factors that drive alliance formation between two specific firms across national borders.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effectiveness of both ethical and professional codes in the Dutch management consulting industry and found that the presence of an ethical code has a negative effect on individual ethical decision-making.

TL;DR: In this paper, the extent of national diversity in the composition of top management teams in two highly internationalized European countries, Sweden and The Netherlands, was examined, and it was found that the national diversity of top managers in these countries has not progressed to the same level as the internationalization of the companies at large.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify how companies construct the meaning of diversity through its dimensions, and reveal how the definition of diversity and its dimensions as used on websites varies across Europe by comparing statements from 241 top companies in eight countries (Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and UK).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the critical role that employees at all levels play in the delivery of services in and around the processing, provisioning and stewardship of information and present a number of frameworks and models to guide management action.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the key drivers of adoption of e-business practices by small and medium-sized enterprises in Eastern Europe and discuss the results of a survey of over 900 SME managers in four Eastern European countries and Cyprus.

TL;DR: In this article, the advantages and disadvantages of different types of family businesses operating in Europe are systematically examined, and the authors make a distinction between a firm's family and business orientation.

TL;DR: This article conducted an empirical study on the role of organizational slack among state-owned enterprises in China and reported empirical evidence based on a large data set (1995-1996) from the Chinese government archive, consisting of all Chinese large and medium SOEs.