This paper reviews New Zealand's experience of lockouts over the last near-two decades. It employs published and unpublished official (Statistics New Zealand) data plus unofficial data on the following, hitherto ignored, ...

This paper explores how communities generate effective ecological solutions using both implicit narrative construction and explicit processes of knowledge creation and knowledge application. We argue that the act of ...

The low-cost airline business model is predicated on an application of Porter's cost-leadership strategy wherein the aim is to be THE low-cost producer in the broad aviation market. On the one hand, from the supply side, ...

In this paper, we examine ongoing negotiations in alliances through the lens of leadership behaviours. We integrate the leadership literature with the dynamic capability view of the firm to explain the effects of different ...

This research note reports a study of Ronald McDonald’s leadership. The argument is that rather than just being a spokesperson or marketing device for the McDonald’s corporation, Ronald performs an important transformational ...

Leadership, personality, and organizational factors were analyzed to measure their combined effect on virtual-based product development time and scope-quality performance. Over 1,000 team members were surveyed.

The objective of this paper is to explore the role of leadership in fostering innovation within technology dependent organisations and in particular the ways in which such leadership manifests. The research used a Grounded ...

Purpose - This paper describes and analyses an attempt to engage in transformational learning, oriented to the development of a eutrtIre of innovation, at a medium-size software development organization in Australia. ...