Showing papers in "European Management Journal in 2005"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors have worked with more than 30 equipment manufacturing companies to gain an understanding as to why manufacturing companies often fail to exploit the financial benefit of extending their service business.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of existing research and tools related to the business case for corporate sustainability, including theoretical frameworks, instrumental studies aiming to either prove or disprove a hypothesized causal sequence between corporate social or environmental performance and financial performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors classify collaboration initiatives using a conceptual water-tank analogy, and discuss their dynamic behavior and key characteristics, concluding that the effectiveness of supply chain collaboration relies upon two factors: the level to which it integrates internal and external operations, and the efforts are aligned to the supply chain settings in terms of the geographical dispersion, the demand pattern, and product characteristics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the best available metrics used by twenty major German companies to measure sustainability and found that most sustainable development initiatives have been developed in isolation of business activity and are not yet directly linked to business strategy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a detailed description of the various risks and offer advice on how to minimize them based on intensive desk research and in-depth workshops with nine companies, while examples from companies that have had vast experience with all aspects of customer integration illustrate their practical applicability.

TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of non-financial disclosure on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by concentrating on information released through corporate social, environmental and sustainability reports is presented, which is linked to seven major themes that are: operational efficiency, maximum safety, environmental protection, quality & innovation, open dialogue, skill development, and responsible citizenship.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the potential for HR professionals to draw on the branding literature as a new performance discourse, which increasingly is believed by organizations such as the UK-based Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) to be a key area of interest for their members.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from an exploratory study of 11 large Finnish multinationals to explore aspects relating to short-term international assignments, while there are similarities to traditional long-term assignments, the differences pose special HR challenges.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how knowledge management methods support knowledge creation during the development of new products and provided evidence from a survey of 356 responses of members of 94 new product development (NPD) projects on the utilization and satisfaction with 14 KMs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a cross-case analysis of three companies and identify key success factors for implementing knowledge-based CRM initiatives by means of an orchestrated approach that considers strategy, processes, systems and change management aspects.

TL;DR: In this article, a large-scale empirical study was carried out in 10 European countries concerning the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software by medium-sized companies and found that variables describing national cultural highly significantly explain variance in adoption decisions in addition to the traditional micro and meso variables.

TL;DR: In this paper, a sense-testing tool for managers to enable disruptive innovation of business models through corporate examples and case study evidence is proposed. But, the authors do not consider the impact of such a tool on the performance of the business model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the dynamic development of multinationals' corporate responses and the interaction with the different stakeholders, which has resulted in a cascade of codes of conduct over the years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the strengths and weaknesses of lean management thinking in the food and farming industry in the UK are discussed based on a case study of red meat supply, and it is argued that the adoption of lean practices internally may be appropriate for all participants in the industry, but the inter-organisational aspects of lean may not be easy to apply in practice, nor appropriate, for many participants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the emergence of networks of practice and the role of knowledge sharing via knowledge portals and analyze the impact of a knowledge portal on the diffusion of knowledge among rather loosely coupled and often disconnected innovation projects.

TL;DR: The proposed methodology capitalizes on existing knowledge, while incorporating critical issues, grounded in research and experience, which have not been systematically considered or documented in previous work.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the characteristics of the entrepreneur/manager, the top management team and the board of directors in Dutch SMEs and concluded that entrepreneurs/managers of SMEs should be made aware of the strategic knowledge and networking advantages both top-management team and supervisory board members can offer.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that the post-acquisition management process should be divided into a number of phases with defined objectives and actions to improve the success of cross-border M&A.

TL;DR: In this article, it was demonstrated that organizations may be able to manage supply networks, provided a broad view of "managing" is adopted, using role theory, by clustering supply network management interventions into sets of linked activities and goals.

TL;DR: Schneider and Williamson as discussed by the authors make the case that companies need to view "carbon exposure" as more than just an environmental compliance issue, but rather a key factor in future corporate competitiveness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present case-based research into three firms to evaluate and assess risk mitigation strategies for selecting service providers for offshore infrastructure management, and conclude that it will become increasingly necessary for Service Providers to develop offshore outsourcing capabilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present in-depth data on four companies facing the challenge of continuous innovation in different industrial settings and show how companies rely on the use of internal knowledge brokers to: (a) absorb market knowledge; (b) drive knowledge sharing, and (c) favor the process of innovation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that there is a field of strategy, but it is still underdeveloped despite an incredible surge of research in the last twenty years, and that most strategy research does not really address the defining issues and that it has become less and less relevant to practising managers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared alliance activity in Europe and the USA, and found that the USA has surpassed Europe both in number of alliances and in the quality of alliance management.

TL;DR: Customers' requirement for their suppliers to 'open their books' and reveal sensitive and secret information is explored and a potential solution to the problem is proposed - the concept of jointly managed transparency at the supply interface.

TL;DR: A number of studies have indicated that the environmental disclosure of corporations is still at a very low level even though they are faced with increasing pressures from diverse stakeholder groups, including governmental agencies, to address environmental concerns as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided empirical evidence that some elements of an organization's culture have a differential impact on the financial performance of a firm, including customer focus, corporate citizenship, performance standards, and identification with the company.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the link between the MNC unit's strategic environment and perception gaps and found that certain strategic environments bear a higher risk for perception gaps concerning information flows between headquarters and subsidiaries and the subsidiaries' autonomy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a conceptual model in which a CSR Critical Incident passes through three "regulators" which influence the significance of the episode, and three responsive strategies are outlined and discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a survey on nearly 150 installations of ERP in Italian SMEs and found that the marketing competencies of vendors are not extensively developed or, if anything, are not fully leveraged.