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SUMMARYThis paper is drawn from an intensive case study of Pensco ‐ a mutual life insurance company in the South of England. The original objective of the research was to examine corporate strategy as an aspect of management control. As the research proceeded, it became clear that a new system of budgeting and expenses control was a crucial element of the transformation of the company from its 'sleepy’ paternalistic traditions into an aggressive, competitive financial services company. The paper contextualizes the development of budgeting and expenses control in Pensco within changes in the British economy. These are associated with the rise of the New Right, transformations in the financial services sector relating to deregulation and the establishment of a new regulatory framework. The argument of the paper is that budgeting and accounting control in this company has a complex genealogy revolving around a number of conditions coinciding at a particular point in time. Our case study material also reveals a variety of tensions, contradictions and resistances to the new management regime that placed, considerable obstacles in the way of an effective implementation of the new accounting and management cont

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1993.tb00157.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYThis paper examines the proposition that action learning is a new paradigm in management education. Action learning is becoming widely accepted methodology for the development of managers and managerial competence. This is in both public and private sector organizations and within the context of certificated and organisationally based programmes. The paper seeks to use Kuhn's work on the nature of paradigms and change as a way of explaining the increase of interest in his approach. Importantly, although this approach promises to answer some of the problems of traditional management education, it is not without its own critics. Kuhn's criteria for a paradigm change are explained with reference to action learning literature and knowledge of practice. From this a framework is developed that compares a traditional approach to management education with an action learning approach on three levels. Our conclusion is that action learning is a new paradigm, but for the maximum benefit to be gained from the approach its application needs to be more carefully considered, particularly in relation to the provision of some wider external frameworks for the manager to use as‘tools for thinkin

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1993.tb00158.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYPrevious research has considered the strategy‐performance relationship in industries of relatively low degrees of dynamism and volatility. This study empirically tests the Miles and Snow typology with a dynamic, growing and volatile service industry. Results support earlier research and suggest that, considering catalogue and mail‐order houses (SIC‐5961), reactors did not perform as well as businesses adopting other generic strategies. However, prospectors experienced significantly higher levels of revenue growth than other businesses. Further, analysers were significantly more profitable than businesses adopting other strategies. These results suggest that combination strategies are a viable means for sustaining competitive adva

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1993.tb00159.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYSome of the main features of Bandura's self‐efficacy concept are presented. The importance of the concept to the work organization and to individual performance is discussed. A field study is described. The first part of the study involved the development of parallel versions of a scale to assess managerial self‐efficacy. Data concerning the psychometric properties of the parallel version of the scale show that they are reliable and independent of social desirability. The second part of the study provided evidence of the relationships between scores on the managerial self‐efficacy scale and supervisors’ ratings of managers’ performance. The results indicate that managerial self‐efficacy correlates with work performa

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1993.tb00160.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYLawler and Mohrman (1987), as others (Griffin, 1988; Markset al., 1986), have associated a‘honeymoon effect’ (Lawler and Mohrman, 1987) or period of‘initial momentum’ (Solberg, 1985) with quality circle (QC) progress. They have been shown to be successful for about 2 years before there is a decline (Griffin, 1988). Focusing on a single synthetic rubber manufacturing facility, individuals who had participated in QCs at the site were surveyed. Because the QC programme had been in place for 7 years, this study sought to determine what factors contributed to that l

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1993.tb00161.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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SUMMARYWhat do top managers see as the root of their success? This paper reports on a discourse analysis of five autobiographies from major industrial figures. Those chosen all had some disruption (war, being a refugee, or immigrant status) between the culture of their childhood and the culture in which they undertook their careers. This makes them more aware than most of their upbringing. Their accounts of their first 20 years are examined, and themes are drawn out for each of them. These themes are tabulated and some of the differences between them are discussed. Common themes are conspicuous by their absence. The paper discusses why this should not surprise us; top management is not one activity in one culture, and an upbringing that might have led one of these managers to success might have been disadvantageous to another. The paper concludes that the common factor between the accounts of the managers is that they all regard their upbringing as having fitted them particularly well for the company, industry and culture in which they were eventually successful.

ISSN:1045-3172    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8551.1993.tb00162.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY