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Administrative Sciences, Volume 5, Issue 2

June 2015 - 5 articles

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Articles (5)

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
13,240 Views
35 Pages

The Balanced Scorecard: Fashion or Virus?

  • Dag Øivind Madsen and
  • Kåre Slåtten

8 June 2015

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a one of the most popular and contagious management ideas of our time. In previous research the diffusion and institutionalization of the BSC has been viewed through different theoretical lenses, most notably the manag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,601 Views
17 Pages

Is the Asset Transfer of Public Leisure Facilities in England an Example of Associative Democracy?

  • Geoff Nichols,
  • Deborah Forbes,
  • Lindsay Findlay-King and
  • Gordon Macfadyen

11 May 2015

In England, public sports facilities and libraries provided by local government are being transferred to management and delivery by volunteers. The catalyst for this development has been reductions in local government budgets. However, case studies e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,590 Views
25 Pages

28 April 2015

In this paper, we use the work of the philosopher, Charles Taylor, to investigate the role of culture on internationalization decisions. Using parameters related to key constructs such as positive liberty, social ontology, expressivism, civic republi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,023 Views
19 Pages

30 March 2015

This study empirically investigated how small and medium-sized Chinese apparel enterprises (SME) formed their strategy as a response to the characteristics of business environment in order to achieve competitive business performance. An environment-...

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Adm. Sci. - ISSN 2076-3387