The concept of decentralization of authority as understood and practiced by managers in the USA tends to be of limited applicability in developing countries.
This article analyzes the relevance of Niccolo Machiavelli's precepts to modern business. It considers the reasons for Machiavelli's concepts being effective, widely used, and as applicable to today's management as they were 500 years ago In Renaissance Italy.
This article presents a study that profiles the typical member of the Academy of Management, developed through a mail survey conducted in 1967. 410 questionnaires were returned of the 833 mailed. T...
Entrepreneurship can and should be viewed as a corporate function. How to build this function into an existing organization, however, requires some knowledge of those organizational factors which promote and hinder entrepreneurial action. This article identifies and discusses what some of these factors are and suggests how they might be used in practical management strategies.
The article presents a section of abstracts on management dissertation papers. They include “Heuristic Programming Applied to Intermittent Overhead Costs Associated With Linear Programming Models,” “A Study of the Careers of American College and University Presidents” and “Optimal Recurrent Decision Making For Lower-Level Managers.”