Showing papers in "Scandinavian Journal of Management in 1991"

TL;DR: In this article, a factor analysis of a leadership behaviour questionnaire revealed the same pattern of leadership styles in all the participants described their own manager in a 36-item questionnaire; the managers were also rated for managerial competence and the respondent's personal attitude to the manager was given.

TL;DR: Nystrom as discussed by the authors reviewed technological and market innovation strategies for product and company development, and proposed a new approach for product development based on the concept of product and market development, which is called NNOMA.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss changes in approach to the study of business relationships, and see the paradigm concept as constituting an inadequate basis for describing gradually evolving changes in the perception of business.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that innovation development is by no means as goal-oriented or linear as these models suggest, and that the process has more of an emergent, trial-and-error character.

TL;DR: Analyses of simulation results suggest that some dimensions of size, particularly the number of headquarter resources and policies, are related significantly to performance efficiency.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find no evidence that Norwegian mutual fund managers claim that their funds are subject to different investment policies, and they find that the risk profile of funds managed by different companies varies significantly.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss future changes in the organization and the mode of production in the financial services industry, using a futurological method to assess the future market situation and the strategies of the firms in the industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and explain the organizational change process in a Finnish bank group, which is illustrated by a long-term merger process, whereby the structure of the bank group has been substantially revitalized.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the fallibility of this belief by revealing some dilemmas inherent in subordinating all R&D to corporate strategy and suggest the need for interaction of a very high quality between corporate and business management.

TL;DR: The Swedish managerialism is reproducing old collectivist and corporativist values with German rather than Anglo-Saxon intellectual roots as discussed by the authors, and the concept of the "firm" has taken on the meaning today that was previously given to "Nature" or "People".

TL;DR: In this paper, an analytical framework aimed at the study of aggregation and transformation of individual outcomes from personnel training into organizational effects of first and second order is presented and discussed, where the focus is set on possible interlinkages between outcomes on the level of employees and the levels of firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of forecasting in managerial decision-making is discussed, and it is suggested that forecasts may be used not only for the purpose of prediction, but also in order to generate knowledge, guide policy decisions and monitor system performance.

TL;DR: In this article, a framework of administrative change is presented and used in questioning Brunsson's conclusions and the main criticism concerns the role which an organization's members are given in organizational change, and the unspoken assumption that they always act cynically.

TL;DR: In this article, it is suggested that the human brain is a system, a dipole, consisting of a chaos-generator and an order generator, where the effects of these generators interact.

TL;DR: In this article, a metaphor borrowed from the performing arts, more specifically from the theatre, is used to spotlight the actors and their performances in determining the sales budget of a business organization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on technological change and the related innovation processes in a business organization and argue that holistic and coherent intra-firm technological paradigms are necessary to enable sustained and successful innovative activity.

TL;DR: This note stresses that, even though an analyst may prefer to conceptualize learning as an explicit constant in the incremental unit learning model, that same analyst has implicitly assumed a varying learning rate in the cumulative average model.

TL;DR: This article explored the uses of power as an experiential concept, a construct used by organizational members to interpret their experience and reveal how norms and expectations are related to organizational practices in the process of making sense of organizational experience.

TL;DR: In this article, the Garbage Can (GC) model is applied to large empirical materials concerning different types of context, organization and process from those where it has been chiefly used.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of an analysis of the price behavior in the period immediately after initial public offerings are reported are reported, and the specific purpose of this study was to test whether the market can set suitable prices for new stocks instantaneously after the settling, or whether systematically over- or underpricing of new stocks can be observed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report a comparative case study of nine firms in the Canadian graphic arts industry in 1964-1986 and suggest that production technology in these firms changes in feedback cycles.