Journal of Management Studies

1964 - 2025

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Volume 15, month 10, 1978

IDENTIFYING CRITERIA FOR PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL DECISIONS pp. 255-264

William D. Wilsted and Robert L. Taylor

THE FACTOR METHOD OF CALCULATING DISCRETION IN A FLEXIBLE WORK HOUR SCHEDULE pp. 265-284

R. A. Lee and W. McEwan Young

BETWEEN BUREAUCRACY AND HOSPITALITY—SOME ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HOTELS1 pp. 285-307

Boas Shamir

LOCAL FOREMEN IN MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF SUPERVISORY ROLE‐TENSISONS IN WESTERN AND CHINESE FACTORIES OF SINGAPORE1 pp. 308-317

Frederic C. Deyo

A CONTROLLED FIELD EXPERIMENT MEASURING THE IMPACT OF MBO ON PERFORMANCE DATA pp. 318-329

Jan P. Muczyk

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND JOB INVOLVEMENT AS ANTECEDENTS OF BOUNDARY SPANNING BEHAVIOUR: A PATH ANALYSIS pp. 330-339

Robert C. Dailey and Cyril P. Morgan

MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT IN NON‐BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS: A DESIGN AND ITS EVALUATION pp. 340-346

J. E. Dittrich

PROCEDURES FOR MANAGERS IN IDEA DEFICIENT SITUATIONS: A NOTE ON PERCEPTIONS OF BRAINSTORMING USERS OBTAINED FROM A CROSS‐CULTURAL PILOT STUDY pp. 347-349

T. Rickards and B. L. Freedman

Volume 15, month 05, 1978

ON ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN: FROM A LINEAR PROGRAMMING POINT OF VIEW pp. 123-137

Børge Obel

SEQUENTIAL DECISION TREES FOR THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION pp. 138-148

Richard E. Peterson and K. K. Seo

PARTICIPATION IN CONTEXT: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE. PART I pp. 149-175

Dan Gowler and Karen Legge

MANAGERIAL POWER AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS: A CONTINGENCY ANALYSIS pp. 176-186

Y. K. Shetty

ORIENTATION TO WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS: A CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS, INTEGRATION AND SUGGESTED APPLICTION1 pp. 187-210

Roger Bennett

CONTROL AND ORIENTATIONS TO WORK IN A BUSINESS ORGANIZATION pp. 211-222

David Smith

RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN NEWSPAPERS pp. 223-240

Lars Engwall

FINANCIAL RATIO DISTRIBUTIONS FOR 1976: A NOTE pp. 241-254

J. C. Drury

Volume 15, month 02, 1978

TOWARDS A CRITICAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE pp. 1-24

Stephen Wood and John Kelly

NORMATIVE CONSENSUS, CONSTITUTIONALISM AND ASPECTS OF IDEOLOGY IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: THE CASE OF THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY1 pp. 25-42

E. G. A. Armstrong, J. F. B. Goodman and A. Wagner

PROCEDURES FOR MANAGERS IN IDEA‐DEFICIENT SITUATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF BRAINSTORMING APPROACHES pp. 43-55

T. Rickards and B. L. Freedman

THEORY OF SEARCH: BEHAVIOURAL IMPLICATIONS pp. 56-67

Tony Proctor

INDIVIDUAL MODERATORS OF THE TASK DESIGN, JOB ATTITUDE RELATIONSHIP: A NOTE ON MEASUREMENT pp. 68-76

Daniel Robey

BUSINESSMEN AND BUSINESS SCHOOL FACULTY: A COMPARISON OF VALUE SYSTEMS pp. 77-87

Geert Hofstede

SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE RELATED TO THE CASE OF THE SUPERORDINATE INTEGRATOR pp. 88-105

A. M. Tinker and E. A. Lowe

Volume 14, month 10, 1977

THE JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES–A REVIEW OF PAST PUBLICATIONS, 1964–76: AN EDITORIAL COMMENT pp. 221-230

Karen Legge

ABSENCE BEHAVIOUR AND ATTENDANCE MOTIVATION: A CONCEPTUAL SYNTHESIS pp. 231-252

Nigel Nicholson

STRATEGY‐MAKING IN CONTEXT: TEN EMPIRICAL ARCHETYPES pp. 253-280

Danny Miller and Peter H. Friesen

THE SOCIAL ROLE OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE IN BRITAIN: AN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE. PART II pp. 281-316

Edwin M. Epstein

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF MARKET STRUCTURES pp. 317-328

Peter Doyle and Zeki B. Gidengil

DEALER ADOPTION OF A NEW CAR FRANCHISE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY pp. 329-340

Philip Rosson

CORPORATE MANAGEMENT IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A CASE STUDY pp. 341-351

Andrew P. Kakabadse

Volume 14, month 05, 1977

THE JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES–A REVIEW OF PAST PUBLICATIONS, 1964–1971: AN EDITORIAL NOTE pp. 123-130

Geoff Lockett

A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONTEXT AND STRUCTURE OF A LARGE BRITISH FINANCIAL INSTITUTION pp. 131-146

Martin G. Evans and Will McQuillan

CONTINGENCIES AFFECTING STRATEGY FORMULATION AND EFFECTIVENESS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY pp. 147-158

Frank T. Paine and Carl R. Anderson

THE DECISION TO DECIDE pp. 159-168

Yoram Friedman and Eli Segev

DECISION‐MAKING IN CONDITIONS OF EXTREME UNCERTAINTY pp. 169-178

F. L. Harrison

TRAINING IN PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL INTERVIEWING: AN EVALUATION STUDY pp. 179-191

C. W. Allinson

SELF‐ESTEEM, INTERNAL‐CONTROL AND EXPECTANCY BELIEFS OF WHITE AND BLACK MANAGERS IN SOUTH AFRICA pp. 192-199

Christopher Orpen and Joshua Nkohande

Volume 14, month 03, 1977

ORGANIZATIONAL ADJUSTMENT TO UNCERTAINTY pp. 1-7

Maurice Marks

ADVERTISING APPROPRIATION DECISIONS: AN ECONOMIC VIEW pp. 8-25

Julian Lowe

‘WATER TO SPAIN’: AN EXPORT DECISION ANALYSED IN THE CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING pp. 26-33

Kjell Grønhaug

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSONALITY: A PERSON AT THE CROSSROADS pp. 34-57

M. F. R. Kets De Vries

MANAGERS' OCCUPATIONAL HISTORIES, ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS, AND CLIMATES FOR MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT pp. 58-79

Diana C. Pheysey

MANAGERIAL BELIEFS ABOUT WORK IN SCOTLAND AND THE U.S.A pp. 80-101

John W. Dickson and Rogene A. Buchholz

Volume 13, month 10, 1976

THE EMERGENCE OF THE POST‐INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND THE FUTURE OF THE ACCOUNTING FUNCTION1 pp. 199-212

Natwar M. Gandhi

THE SOCIAL ROLE OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE IN BRITAIN: AN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE: PART I.1 pp. 213-233

Edwin M. Epstein

THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL, ORGANIZATIONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL FACTORS ON FEMALE ABSENCE pp. 234-254

Nigel Nicholson and Peter M. Goodge

WOODWARD, TECHNOLOGY, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE — A CRITIQUE OF THE UNIVERSAL GENERALIZATION pp. 255-273

Lex Donaldson

MANAGEMENT CONTROL: SYSTEMS THINKING APPLIED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR EMPIRICAL STUDIES pp. 274-287

Edwin G. Nelson and John L. J. Machin

THE USE OF THE LORENZ CURVE AND THE PARETO DISTRIBUTION IN INTERNAL PAY STRUCTURING: A RESEARCH NOTE pp. 288-296

T. M. Husband and A. P. Schofield

Volume 13, month 05, 1976

GROWTH AND THE SMALL FIRM — AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW pp. 95-110

M. J. K. Stanworth and J. Curran

MATRIX ORGANIZATION: A REVIEW pp. 111-130

Kenneth Knight

INSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: A NEW PERSPECTIVE IN ORGANIZATION THEORY pp. 131-151

K. H. F. Dyson

THE FOOTBALL CLUB MANAGER — A PRECARIOUS OCCUPATION? pp. 152-163

Malcolm G. Wilders

DECISION THEORY AND INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE: MAXIMUM VARIANCE pp. 164-174

Z. W. Kmietowicz and A. D. Pearman

ACADEMIC SALARIES — A PERSONAL APPLICATION OF MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS 1 pp. 175-182

G. D. Newbould, K. W. Wilson and S. J. Stray

CONTROL AND EFFECTIVENESS IN TWENTY‐SEVEN SCANDINAVIAN VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS pp. 183-190

Peter F. Sorensen

PERCEIVED JOB ATTRIBUTES, JOB ATTITUDES AND THE BEHAVIOUR OF BLUE COLLAR WORKERS: A RESEARCH NOTE 1 pp. 191-195

D. W. Birchall and Ray Wild

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MANAGERIAL SUCCESS AND PERSONAL VALUES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A RESEARCH NOTE pp. 196-196

Christopher Orpen

Volume 13, month 02, 1976

EDITORIAL CHANGES pp. i-i

T. Lupton

RESPONSE TIME OF ORGANIZATIONS pp. 1-15

Lars Engwall

A STUDY OF THE TRANSFER OF TRAINING FROM DEVELOPED TO LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF GHANA pp. 16-31

Kwame Sarpong and James R. Rawls

WORK ATTITUDES AND CAREER ORIENTATIONS AMONG MANAGEMENT SPECIALISTS pp. 32-48

Russell Lansbury

TASK ENRICHMENT AND WAGE LEVELS AS ELEMENTS IN WORKER ATTITUDES 1 pp. 49-61

Harold L. Sheppard

THE TECHNO‐ECONOMIC ECOLOGY OF CORPORATE STRATEGY pp. 62-75

Pradip N. Khandwalla

UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE UNEMPLOYED—WHAT TYPES OF PEOPLE, WHAT KIND OF PROBLEM?: A RESEARCH NOTE pp. 76-83

Brenda Thomas and Chris Madigan

ORGANIZATIONAL VARIABLES AND THE SUCCESS OF M.B.O.: A RESEARCH NOTE pp. 84-86

Arthur Straub, Peter F. Sorensen and Richard Babcock