a r t i c l e i n f o As China experience unprecedented changes in its social, legal, and economic institutions, on what should foreign firms focus more to overcome this challenge, managerial ties or market orientation? This study investigates how managerial ties and market orientation affect competitive advantage and, consequently, firm performance in China. On the basis of a survey of 179 for...

This study's aim was to understand the role of nurse managers in the process of hospital accreditation.This qualitative case study was conducted in a large private hospital in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. Five nurse managers were interviewed using a semi-structured script from April to May, 2011 and content analysis was used to interpret the data. Results show the strategic position of this prof...

Managerial positions involve influencing others, hence the importance of studying standards guiding managers' attitudes, decisions, and behavior. Drawing on structural theories psychological findings effects subjective social status, we predict that holding a managerial position is related to indivi...

If an organisation is to achieve its goals in the current “Information Age”, the work of managers must be supported by high quality information. Systems that process organisational performance data into managerial information commonly have either dimensional or relational data structures. This paper reports the findings of a study of information support for university research managers and desc...

Although a considerable literature exists on determinants of managerial compensation, much of it focussing on the role of incentives, there is much less known about the im-pact of managerial remuneration and quality upon attainment of organizational goals. In this paper we use a novel panel data set from the German premier soccer league (Bundesliga) as a case to show how variations in manageria...