... and research paper, it develops a hypothesis. It encompasses philosophical discussions and comparative studies of others’ work and Lean thinking alongside its links to the principles, ideology, philosophy and underpinning values. The search involved a total of 1,931 articles spanning across 75 different...

...John A. Parnell Purpose To examine how a manager's strategic philosophy is influenced by his or her management level in the organization. Design/methodology/approach Scales are developed to measure managers' philosophical perspectives along three key dimensions and tested with 289 managers...

... publication of his lectures that we find references to Lewis. While Shewhart's work has been read and understood by statisticians, this paper argues that to fully understand his work, one needs a background in philosophy of science. To make the point, this paper uncovers similarities between Lewis's...

... in the public sector, so that people can focus more of their attention on the private sector in a modern world devoted to people serving their own needs. Philosophy Management Public administration Private sector Machiavelli’s advice to be ruthless was not general in character. He writes about...

..., because it makes fewer claims: it’s hypothetical and then deductive: either you do it well, such as designing questionnaires properly, which is fairly straightforward, or you don’t. Research Research methodology Philosophy Publishing Micklethwait and Wooldridge (1996) point to management...

... the Enlightenment’s overemphasis upon rationality through an acknowledgment of mankind’s emotional and irrational nature. Freud, like Kant, affirmed that mankind possessed inherent ways of thinking. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Marketing theory Philosophy We, in the business disciplines, are the heirs...

...Christian Grönroos Discusses the logic of the re‐emerging relationship approach to marketing and presents key strategic as well as tactical implications for a firm attempting to apply a relationship marketing strategy. Notes that major changes in the business philosophy may be required...

...N.H. Chorn Charts a development in organisational philosophy and design through three major phases – the traditional model, the human relations model and the systems model – and points to an emerging paradigm for the 1990s. This new model focuses on vision before analysis, individuality before...