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Measuring Bad Leadership In Organisations, James Shaw, Anthony Erickson
Measuring Bad Leadership In Organisations, James Shaw, Anthony Erickson
James B Shaw
This study describes the development of a measure of the nature of bad leadership in organisations. We then use scales developed from that measure in cluster analysis to empirically derive a taxonomy of bad leaders. Data were obtained through a web-based survey that generated 717 respondents. Based on follower perceptions, the results identified seven types of bad leaders based on behaviour-focused scales and seven types of bad leaders identified were not "all bad" but rather perceived as extreme on just one or two characteristics.
A Framework For Leadership Development, George Hrivnak, Rebecca Reichard, Ronald Riggio
A Framework For Leadership Development, George Hrivnak, Rebecca Reichard, Ronald Riggio
George Hrivnak
Despite the tremendous amount of time, money, and energy spent by practitioners and scholars alike to understand, promote, and facilitate effective leadership development, the field is still far from fully understanding what is often regarded as both art and science. That is not to suggest, however, that the field's efforts have failed to result in substantial progress. Indeed, after defining some salient concepts and the overall scope of this chapter, we review some of the major theoretical and empirical advances in leadership development. Furthermore, the trends and 'best practices' dominant in today's organizations in leadership development are then summarized and …
Measuring Bad Leadership In Organisations, James Shaw, Anthony Erickson
Measuring Bad Leadership In Organisations, James Shaw, Anthony Erickson
Anthony Erickson
This study describes the development of a measure of the nature of bad leadership in organisations. We then use scales developed from that measure in cluster analysis to empirically derive a taxonomy of bad leaders. Data were obtained through a web-based survey that generated 717 respondents. Based on follower perceptions, the results identified seven types of bad leaders based on behaviour-focused scales and seven types of bad leaders identified were not "all bad" but rather perceived as extreme on just one or two characteristics.
Founding Family Leadership And Industry Profitability, Trond Randoy, Clay Dibrell, Justin Craig
Founding Family Leadership And Industry Profitability, Trond Randoy, Clay Dibrell, Justin Craig
Justin B. Craig
In this article, we argue that firms in high-margin industries can benefit from founding family influence. Specifically, in more profitable markets, the influence of the founding family provides an additional corporate governance-monitoring function. The sample consists of 294 firm-year observations from 98 publicly traded companies headquartered in Sweden, representing approximately half of all nonfinancial traded firms. Our support that the effect of family leadership in publicly held firms should be assessed in relation to the intensity of industry competition.
Factors Critical In Overcoming The Liability Of Newness: Highlighting The Role Of Family, Clay Dibrell, Justin Craig, Ken Moores, Aaron Johnson, Peter David
Factors Critical In Overcoming The Liability Of Newness: Highlighting The Role Of Family, Clay Dibrell, Justin Craig, Ken Moores, Aaron Johnson, Peter David
Justin B. Craig
With a focus on the role of family, we explore factors critical in enabling start-up ventures to attain legitimacy and overcome the liability of newness. Drawing from multiple interviews with leaders of seven start-up ventures, we investigate the function of a variety of factors [e.g., family, distributors, financial supporters, etc.] deemed critical in attaining venture legitimacy. To validate our findings, we conducted additional interviews with three established family ventures. Our discussion highlights the role of family as a legitimizing strategy and provides an increased awareness of how internal and external resources are leveraged by the start-up to gain legitimacy.
Natural Environment, Market Orientation, And Firm Innovativeness: A Life Cycle Perspective, Clay Dibrell, Justin Craig, Eric Hansen
Natural Environment, Market Orientation, And Firm Innovativeness: A Life Cycle Perspective, Clay Dibrell, Justin Craig, Eric Hansen
Justin B. Craig
We investigate the moderating effects of the natural environment on the market orientation to firm innovativeness relationship in growth versus mature firms. 237 owners or chief executive officer respondents allowed us to establish evidence of (1) positive linkage between market orientation and firm innovativeness and (2) natural environmental policy moderates the market orientation to firm innovativeness relationship in growth ventures and not in their more mature peers. Our findings suggest ventures characterized as being in the growth stage are more likely to employ a more positive policy toward the natural environment to gain a long-term competitive advantage through firm innovativeness.
Business Sustainability And Undergraduate Management Education In Australia, Josie Fisher, Ingrid Bonn
Business Sustainability And Undergraduate Management Education In Australia, Josie Fisher, Ingrid Bonn
Ingrid Bonn
There is a large and rapidly expanding academic literature arguing that there is an urgent requirement for businesses to become more sustainable. There is also a demonstrated need for managers to develop a better understanding of sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls for educators to address sustainability in their programs. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities. The high percentage of international students enrolled in these courses suggests our findings have …
Financial Constraints, The Distribution Of Wealth And International Trade, Emmanuel Amissah, Spiros Bougheas, Rodney Falvey
Financial Constraints, The Distribution Of Wealth And International Trade, Emmanuel Amissah, Spiros Bougheas, Rodney Falvey
Rodney Falvey
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As the Heckscher-Ohlin-Mundell paradigm predicts, in a world where capital markets are perfect and production exhibits constant-returns to scale, while aggregate wealth endowments can be an important source of comparative advantage, their internal distribution does not matter for the patterns of international trade. This is because in the absence of financial frictions the only factor that determines the availability of external finance is a project's net present value. In real life financial markets are far from perfect. Informational asymmetries between lenders and borrowers, corporate governance quality shortcomings and non-negligible intermediation costs are only a sample of the types of …
Managerial Entrenchment And Capital Structure: New Evidence, Lubomir Litov, Kose John
Managerial Entrenchment And Capital Structure: New Evidence, Lubomir Litov, Kose John
Lubomir P. Litov
No abstract provided.
Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks? Evidence From Their Trades Prior To Earnings Announcements, Lubomir Litov, Malcolm Baker, Jessica Wachter, Jeffrey Wurgler
Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks? Evidence From Their Trades Prior To Earnings Announcements, Lubomir Litov, Malcolm Baker, Jessica Wachter, Jeffrey Wurgler
Lubomir P. Litov
No abstract provided.
A Snapshot Of Results Of The Survey Study On Rfid Technology, S. F. Wamba
A Snapshot Of Results Of The Survey Study On Rfid Technology, S. F. Wamba
Dr Samuel Fosso Wamba
No abstract provided.
Logit Model To Predict Outcomes Of Litigated Employee Obesity Cases, Helen Lavan
Logit Model To Predict Outcomes Of Litigated Employee Obesity Cases, Helen Lavan
Helen LaVan
Obese employees have questionable legal status, in that there are no real direct legal protections under existing law. A random sample of 80 litigated obesity cases was analyzed in the present study. The frequencies, chi square analysis, and logistics regression model suggest case characteristics in which the employer prevails. Future directions are discussed, including the changing definition of disability under Americans With Disabilities Act, exceptions in court rulings, changing the issue of voluntarism and mutability as irrelevant under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines and the recognition of metabolic syndrome as a disability.