The objectives of multinational firms expanding overseas in search of new markets and new resources, or risks spreading and overcoming competition are widely cited. On the other hand, without the host governments’ incentives ...

In this article I argue that the means and ends of development are constitutive of each other. If means appear to have become separated from the espoused ends of international nongovernment organisations (INGOs), then it ...

Gaining access to markets, natural resources and technological expertise, and learning from local marketing and management knowledge and skills have been identified as the main factors behind Chinese firms’ foreign direct ...

This paper aims to initiate a debate about the utility of the concept of co-production in developing a better understanding of contemporary challenges to leadership and management in the provision of public services. The ...

The notion of service co-production is becoming firmly embedded in the contemporary discourse on public service provision. While talking about co-production is rapidly gaining in popularity among policy makers and ...

The reality of everyday organizational life is that it is filled with uncertainty, contradictions and paradoxes. Yet leaders and managers are expected to act as though they can predict the future and bring about the ...

This report provides an account of the main outcomes of Placemaking 4 Cities (P4C) project and offers critical evaluation of process as well as content of this pilot project in good practice transfer (GPT). In doing so ...

This paper focuses on organisational benefits that third sector organisations (TSOs) derived from using European Union funding. Drawing on contemporary concepts around the co-production of publicly funded services this ...

This chapter aims to extend the study of crisis management in the tourism industry by analysing the issues faced by a multinational hotel firm, Hilton Hotels International (HHI), during the foray into the international ...

The two perspectives of strategy process most firmly established in the literature—strategic choice and ecology—assume the same about system dynamics: negative feedback processes driving successful systems (individual ...