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Who Makes A Good Leader? Cooperativeness, Optimism And Leading-By-Example
Oct 2009
The authors examine the characteristics of effective leaders in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. They focus on two factors: the individual's cooperativeness and the...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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White Papers
Culture And Cooperation
May 2010
Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper the authors provide an answer by analyzing the...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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White Papers
Productivity In Contests: Organizational Culture And Personality Effects
Jul 2010
The authors study the interaction of organizational culture and personal prosocial orientation in team work where teams compete against each other. In a computerized lab experiment with minimal...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
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Webcasts
Bart Victor On Helping Students Answer The Big Questions Of Business Ethics
Jan 2011
The presenter's research interests lie in the practical and moral dimensions of enterprise approaches to the alleviation of poverty, the ethical foundations of business, and the social and moral...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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Webcasts
Leadership And Your Career
Jan 2011
Like many top MBA programs, the authors do a great job of teaching leadership principles. But UNC Kenan-Flagler surpasses the others by shaping the students through a continual process of...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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White Papers
A Comparative Analysis Of Different Business Ethics In The Perspective Of The Common Good
Jun 2009
The paper concerns the connection between different typologies of business ethics (kantian, utilitarian, aristotelic) and the alternative vision of economic development, company's organizational...
Provided by University of Perugia
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White Papers
The Effect Of Opportunity Cost And Pacifism On Protests In Occupied Regions
Jul 2010
This paper examines how the opportunity costs of the leaders of a national protest movement, and the intrinsic pacifism of the occupier, affect the nature of the movement against occupation. A...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
What It Takes To Be A Leader: Leadership And Charisma In A Citizen-Candidate Model
Nov 2008
This paper analyses leadership and charisma within the framework of social choice. In societies that lack formal institutional authorities, the power of leaders to coerce is limited. Under such...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Case Studies
Portugal's UNICRE Modernizes CRM Infrastructure Through Oracle Siebel
Jun 2009
UNICRE is the largest and oldest company in Portugal that specializes in issuing solutions-based payment cards and related services. It was clear from a review of front-line processes that the...
Provided by Capgemini
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Case Studies
Global Chemicals Leader Strengthens Customer Focus With Global Change Program
Aug 2008
New markets, new competition and new acquisitions all created new challenges for a global chemical leader. In a world of change, the company was determined to remain constant in its pursuit of...
Provided by Capgemini
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White Papers
Leadership Games With Convex Strategy Sets
Nov 2009
A basic model of commitment is to convert a two-player game in strategic form to a "Leadership game" with the same payoffs, where one player, the leader, commits to a strategy, to which the second...
Provided by Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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White Papers
Chipping Away At The Glass Ceiling: Gender Spillovers In Corporate Leadership
Jan 2011
This paper examines the role of women helping women in corporate America. Using a merged panel of directors and executives for large U.S. corporations between 1997 and 2009, the authors find a...
Provided by RAND
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White Papers
Business Ethics And Corporate Responsibility - A New Perspective
Nov 2007
Starting from the famous but controversial statement of Peter Drucker (1981) - "There is neither a separate ethics of business nor is one needed", this paper goes on to argue that business ethics...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Corporate Culture And Shareholder Value In Banking Industry
Apr 2008
This paper analyses the casual relationship between corporate culture and shareholder value using a sample of large banks in the French, German, Italian and U.K. banking systems over the 2000 to...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Paving The Way For U.S. Climate Leadership
Apr 2008
The United States should classify new international agreements to protect the Earth's climate system as executive agreements rather than as treaties. Unlike treaties, which require the advice and...
Provided by Resources for the Future
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Webcasts
Feedback Management Leader Vovici Grows Qualified Traffic 4X
Nov 2009
Vovici is an enterprise feedback application that offers tools like survey software, panel management and online community solutions to measure customer satisfaction and conduct market research....
Provided by HubSpot
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Webcasts
Becoming An Effective Leader
Jan 2011
What does it take to be a leader? Although it can be defined in many different ways, a true leader takes his personal characteristics and puts them toward a specific goal or cause. Interestingly...
Provided by iEntry
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White Papers
Leadership And Authenticity: A Sartrean Critique
Sep 2009
Currently 'Authentic Leadership' is attracting increasing attention. Authenticity is an important concept within existentialist thinking and a Sartrean critique of authentic leadership is offered...
Provided by University of Bradford
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White Papers
Ethical Leadership Training: An Aristotelian Approach
Aug 2009
When it comes to the establishment of an ethical corporate culture, there appears to be at least two inter-related foundational requirements: The existence of an explicit set of core ethical...
Provided by York University
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White Papers
A Citation-Based Ranking Of The Business Ethics Scholarly Journals
Feb 2009
The purpose of this paper is to develop a ranking of academic business ethics journals. For this, a revealed preference approach, also known as a citation impact method, was employed. The citation...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
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White Papers
Leadership Qualities In Volatile Business Environments
Aug 2009
Turbulent economic environments such as the current Global Financial Crisis (GFC) present organisations with both challenges and opportunities. Researchers such as Sull (1999) and McGrath &...
Provided by Evanscorp
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White Papers
Leadership Styles And Ethical Decision-Making In Hospitality Management
Jul 2008
This paper examined the ways in which hospitality leaders in Australia seek to influence others in the workplace. One hundred and thirty three managers of hotels rated as three, four or five stars...
Provided by Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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White Papers
Business Ethics From A Historical Perspective
Nov 2009
This paper proposes three periodisations in the history of business ethics. Different styles and kinds of discourse were produced in each of the periods. The first includes the broader social...
Provided by RMIT University
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White Papers
Ethical Perceptions Of Newly Staffed Accountants: An Exploratory Study
Feb 2011
The current economic crisis coupled with corporate scandals may have impacted the future leadership of newly staffed accountants. As a result, it may be of some benefit to see if the ethical...
Provided by Adelphi University
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White Papers
Corporate Disclosure Determinants: A Cross-Country Investigation
Nov 2007
The wave of bankruptcies that have followed one upon the other in recent years as the consequence of financial scandals and the integration among the financial systems of various countries have...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Ann Tenbrunsel: We're Not As Ethical As We Think We Are
Jul 2010
This original study (Woodzicka and LaFrance) conducted in 2001, in which participants were faced with this imagined scenario, revealed that 68 percent predicted that they would refuse to answer...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Tonia Murphy Wins Outstanding Paper Award For Research On Reneging
Aug 2009
The paper examining the ethical considerations of job reneging won University of Notre Dame Business professor Tonia Hap Murphy the Ralph C. Hoeber Outstanding Article Award from the Academy of...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
When A Company Writes Its Code Of Ethics, Isn't It Wrong To Plagiarize?
Nov 2008
It is common practice for companies to copy others' ethics codes, sometimes word for word, according to research by University of Notre Dame finance professors Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald and...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Roundtable Considers Careers In Nonprofit Industry
Jan 2010
Executive leaders from several nonprofit organizations ranging from the arts to education will describe career opportunities and their own job paths during the Third Annual Non-Profit Roundtable...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Towards Inter-Ethnic Business Development And National Unity In Malaysia
Jan 2010
This paper investigates Chinese-Bumiputera partnerships in small and medium enterprises, particularly in the manufacturing sector, in the economic liberalisation of post-NEP Malaysia. The research...
Provided by CRISE
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White Papers
Ethnic Entrepreneurs In Australia: A Story Of Relationships And Networks
Aug 2010
The internationalisation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is a key challenge and of interest to policy makers, individual firms and researchers in Australia. SMEs significantly drive growth...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Integrity, Respect For Others, And Ethics ? Three Essential Leadership Qualities
Apr 2011
Ethics, respect for others and integrity, should definitely be pre requisites for leadership. Unfortunately many so called leaders do not understand or practice these values. Some leaders who are...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Business Ethics Pedagogy: A Synthesis Of Paradigms, Philosophies, And Teaching Methods
Apr 2011
Is the job as educators to teach students how to make ethical decisions or is it to teach students how to become innately better people, thus becoming better ethical decision-makers on the job?...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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Linking Strategy, Leadership And Organization Culture For Project Success
Aug 2007
The concept of organization culture is not new. For many decades, the influence of culture on an organization has been the focus of significant research and study - and for good reason: Culture...
Provided by Palatine Group/Management Worlds
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White Papers
The Usefulness Of Infra-Annual Government Cash Budgetary Data For Fiscal Forecasting In The Euro Area
May 2008
Short-term fiscal indicators based on public accounts data are often used by European policy makers. They represent one of the main sources of publicly available intra-annual fiscal information....
Provided by European Central Bank
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CEO Power, Compensation, And Governance
Aug 2007
This paper presents a contracting model of governance based on the premise that CEOs are the main promoters of governance change. CEOs use their power to extract higher pay or private benefits,...
Provided by Boston University
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White Papers
Another Look At Director Independence
Oct 2007
Despite the widely held view that director independence improves corporate governance, few studies find that board composition affects firm performance or CEO compensation. In this paper the...
Provided by University of Colorado
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Relays And Marathons: The Effects Of Succession Choice Surrounding CEO Turnover Announcements
Aug 2007
This paper examines marathon successions, which the author defines as instances where a permanent successor is not chosen at the time of a CEO departure. Marathons have become increasingly...
Provided by University of Arizona
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White Papers
Extending Likages Between Organizational Analysis And Social Structure: A Case Study Of The Celebrity-construction Of A Chinese Marketplace
Aug 2009
This paper examines the emergence of firm-celebrity, both an intangible-asset, and a facilitator of competitive advantage. Institutional approaches have asserted that organizations from the same...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Do Culture And Governance Structure Influence CSR Reporting Quality: Evidence From China, India, Malaysia And The United Kingdom
Jul 2010
This paper provides preliminary findings on CSR disclosure practices in various reporting media used by 70 big corporations in China, India, Malaysia and the UK. It also investigates whether...
Provided by University of Sydney
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Taking A Meeting With Doc, Happy, Grumpy, et al
Aug 2007
Although you have to stay grounded in reality when running a meeting, savvy leaders can learn a lot from a classic Disney tale, according to one psychologist. Sharon Livingston, Ph.D. says that by...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Key Leadership Behaviors That Improve Sales Force Performance
Jan 2010
No industry or business function has been immune to unprecedented conditions that have engulfed the economy. Most sales teams are faced with conditions they've never experienced before. New...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
How To 10x Your Influence
Jan 2010
Leaders frequently make miscalculations in trying to influence change. Often, they bet on a single source of influence rather than tap into a diverse arsenal of strategies. The latest research...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Dealing With Difficult People
May 2008
Researchers have found that each one falls into one of four major behavioral functions: Controller, Analyzer, Supporter, or Promoter. Once one has identified a person's style one can adopt a...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
When Not To E-mail
Sep 2007
Just because e-mail is good for some things doesn't mean it's good for everything. What follows is a list of the times and occasions one absolutely, positively should not send e-mail. The aim...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Amp-Up Your Leadership, Part II: Power Up Your Team
May 2010
When it comes to business leadership, one can reframe Einstein's famous formula E=mc² as: Energy = magnetism (multiplied by) collective confidence. As a leader, ones' team's level of energy and...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Amp-Up Your Leadership, Part III: Winning Results/Good Karma
Jun 2010
Leadership is sometimes in the eye of the beholder. What one employee considers interfering, another might regard as welcome attention from the boss. Leaders come in many shapes and styles - so do...
Provided by American Management Association
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Persuading Your Boss
Sep 2009
To succeed in business you must identify the people who have the greatest power and authority to propel your projects and promote your career. Bosses, of course, fall into this category. While it...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Networks: The Leader's Secret Weapon
Jul 2007
No one's claiming it "Takes a village" to run an organization, but leaders are finding that their formal and informal networks can make a critical difference in getting their complex jobs done. To...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Working Your "Feminine Mystique"
Jun 2009
In the 1970s and '80s, women began to make real headway in the business world. The popular wisdom back then was that in order to succeed like men, women needed to look and act like men....
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Influencer
Sep 2007
So here's the problem - you have a large herd of issues and relationships that bug you. Department leaders complain incessantly. You consistently miss budget targets. Customers are two steps past...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
It All Starts With Character
Jan 2010
Insisting on good character means everyone must model that behavior. Good character may get you hired, but it is what you do with your character that matters. Employees caught up in scandals at...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
How Leaders Lead In Each Stage Of Group Development
Jan 2010
As leaders guide their groups through various stages of development, they need to understand the most effective style for each stage and match that style to the stage. In stage one of group...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Amp-Up Your Leadership: Look To Your Role Models
Apr 2010
What does it mean to "Amp-up" your leadership effectiveness? When you amplify a signal, it becomes stronger and gains impact, providing more energy, clearer sound, and a brighter light. The...
Provided by STRATEX
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White Papers
Make The Most Of Meetings
Jul 2010
Whether you are an executive assistant at the top of your game, a midlevel assistant with a "Tiger by the tail," or a newbie just learning your strengths, take the time to observe and get involved...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Power Of Just Enough Anxiety
Mar 2008
Leadership used to be about creating certainty. Now it is about leading uncertainty. Most businesses today operate in environments where constant change is the name of the game. Leaders can't keep...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The More Things Change...
Feb 2008
A lot has changed in 20 years. Two decades ago, the Soviet Union was still in business, the first President Bush was soon to be elected, and the World Wide Web hadn't even been invented. No one...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Better Make It Real
Aug 2010
Fake it - or make it. Today, it's the mantra. As a CEO, the author is passionate about organizational authenticity - how companies live out their promises to stakeholders. He has a message for...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Adopt A Proactive Prevention Program And Increase Bottom-Line Profits
Jan 2010
In today's tough economic times, precious funds should not be wasted in coping with discriminatory harassment or union avoidance, or safety issues. These issues can be minimized or eliminated...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
AMA Study Reveals Benefits Of Developing Global Leaders
May 2010
Most corporations want and need leaders who can help them compete successfully in today's global environment, but knowing this and doing something about it are two different things. Among the...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Reorganizing DNA: How To Unify Diverse Corporate Cultures Post-Acquisition
Jun 2010
Most senior leaders tend to only analyze the financial aspects of an M&A deal. They often fail to recognize how important culture is to the success of managing a business. In fact, a recent Mercer...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Want Different Results? Do Something Different
Dec 2009
Data on CEO turnover indicate that during a downturn, boards tend to hold off terminating underperforming CEOs and other executives until recovery is in sight. This way the "Bad news" is...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Ten Smart Leadership Questions For 2010
Feb 2010
If you're like most business leaders, you spent much of 2009 feeling down and just about out thanks to the dire economic situation. Odds are, you grappled with many new challenges, uncertainties,...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Why Jane Doesn't Lead
Aug 2010
In the very near future, women will cross the 50% threshold and become the majority of the American workforce. Females already make up the majority of university graduates in the Organization for...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Hang Out The Lifelines
Jan 2010
One of the black arts of office politics is saying what the boss wants to hear. It's human nature to please, but it's not a good way to run a business. If you are not telling the truth, or more...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
The Five Attributes Of Authority
Jun 2010
Authority does come from title, but it is earned through actions. Inept executives fritter away their authority by their behavior, taking the counsel of none but themselves and failing to listen...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Passionate Employees Are The Fast Track To Revenue Growth
Sep 2007
The business implication of reluctant employees - those who did not win the lottery - is very serious one. At a time when employees create differentiation for your business, as products and...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Liberating Passion In The Workplace
Jul 2008
The best organizations seek passionate people. Why? Because passionate commitment converts talent into stellar performance. And apathy, as passion's antithesis, directly decreases any return on...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Leveraging Power
Jun 2010
Our society is knee-deep in people who misuse power. While their aims are often selfish, as we have seen with managers at corrupt companies, their power is nonetheless substantial; they hurt...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Let's Follow A Leader
Sep 2008
Believing that a picture can be worth a thousand words, we present a brief "snapshot" of one high-performing leader in action, Grant Reid. Before he became global president of Mars Drinks, Reid...
Provided by Guttman Development Strategies
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White Papers
Ethics: An Old-Fashioned Soft Skill For A Modern World
Jul 2010
If ethical behavior had been taught to employees and reinforced as a must-have soft skill, could we have prevented the current economic meltdown? The authors explored this question in a recent...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Welcome Some Disruption In Your Life
Aug 2007
The single biggest human fear, experience tells, is the fear of change. We tremble at the prospect of change on the horizon: starting a new school as a small child or, later, going to college, or...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Leading Change, One Move At A Time
Oct 2007
Which is exactly what the most successful leaders do today in response to the constantly shifting and always uncertain facts of life in the modern business world. They work out a general plan for...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
White Men Can't Lead (Everyone)
Sep 2007
Today's leadership models, although they may differ from person to person and method to method, generally have a common bias toward Western- or European-influenced ways of thinking. We're leading...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Leadership Lessons From Super Bowl XLII
Mar 2008
Super Bowl XLII was a thriller that kept us on the edge of our seats right up until the clock ran out. Yet, as exciting as the game itself was, the real drama of the Super Bowl occurred before the...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Signs Of An Executive In Crisis
Oct 2007
In athletics, as well as in the workplace, some people perform below their proven ability when the pressure is high. They become tense and self-conscious, almost as if they are deliberately trying...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Accentuating The Positive To Improve Productivity
Aug 2008
Strictly speaking, productivity is all about comparing inputs with outputs, for example, how many widgets Jane or Joe Employee (or their workgroup or their company or even their country) can crank...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Six Strategies To Recession Proof Your Job And Career
Jun 2009
If the bad economic news is making you feel anxious about your career or afraid of losing your job, there are actions you can take right now to improve your soft skills in ways that will help you...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
How To Lose Like A Winner
Sep 2008
Every leader should know how to lose. Failure is not something they teach you in school; it is something life teaches you. You may experience it on the playground when you get knocked down....
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
B-29 Leadership
Dec 2009
After nearly 25 years of working with leaders the author has extracted leadership lessons from some pretty obscure experiences. But when a World War II veteran described his experiences as a...
Provided by Ascent Management Consulting
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White Papers
Who Makes A Good Leader? Cooperativeness, Optimism And Leading-By-Example
Oct 2009
The authors examine the characteristics of effective leaders in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. They focus on two factors: the individual's cooperativeness and the...
Provided by University of Nottingham
-
White Papers
Culture And Cooperation
May 2010
Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper the authors provide an answer by analyzing the...
Provided by University of Nottingham
-
White Papers
Productivity In Contests: Organizational Culture And Personality Effects
Jul 2010
The authors study the interaction of organizational culture and personal prosocial orientation in team work where teams compete against each other. In a computerized lab experiment with minimal...
Provided by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
-
Webcasts
Bart Victor On Helping Students Answer The Big Questions Of Business Ethics
Jan 2011
The presenter's research interests lie in the practical and moral dimensions of enterprise approaches to the alleviation of poverty, the ethical foundations of business, and the social and moral...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
-
Webcasts
Leadership And Your Career
Jan 2011
Like many top MBA programs, the authors do a great job of teaching leadership principles. But UNC Kenan-Flagler surpasses the others by shaping the students through a continual process of...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
-
White Papers
A Comparative Analysis Of Different Business Ethics In The Perspective Of The Common Good
Jun 2009
The paper concerns the connection between different typologies of business ethics (kantian, utilitarian, aristotelic) and the alternative vision of economic development, company's organizational...
Provided by University of Perugia
-
White Papers
The Effect Of Opportunity Cost And Pacifism On Protests In Occupied Regions
Jul 2010
This paper examines how the opportunity costs of the leaders of a national protest movement, and the intrinsic pacifism of the occupier, affect the nature of the movement against occupation. A...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
What It Takes To Be A Leader: Leadership And Charisma In A Citizen-Candidate Model
Nov 2008
This paper analyses leadership and charisma within the framework of social choice. In societies that lack formal institutional authorities, the power of leaders to coerce is limited. Under such...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
Case Studies
Portugal's UNICRE Modernizes CRM Infrastructure Through Oracle Siebel
Jun 2009
UNICRE is the largest and oldest company in Portugal that specializes in issuing solutions-based payment cards and related services. It was clear from a review of front-line processes that the...
Provided by Capgemini
-
Case Studies
Global Chemicals Leader Strengthens Customer Focus With Global Change Program
Aug 2008
New markets, new competition and new acquisitions all created new challenges for a global chemical leader. In a world of change, the company was determined to remain constant in its pursuit of...
Provided by Capgemini
-
White Papers
Leadership Games With Convex Strategy Sets
Nov 2009
A basic model of commitment is to convert a two-player game in strategic form to a "Leadership game" with the same payoffs, where one player, the leader, commits to a strategy, to which the second...
Provided by Hebrew University of Jerusalem
-
White Papers
Chipping Away At The Glass Ceiling: Gender Spillovers In Corporate Leadership
Jan 2011
This paper examines the role of women helping women in corporate America. Using a merged panel of directors and executives for large U.S. corporations between 1997 and 2009, the authors find a...
Provided by RAND
-
White Papers
Business Ethics And Corporate Responsibility - A New Perspective
Nov 2007
Starting from the famous but controversial statement of Peter Drucker (1981) - "There is neither a separate ethics of business nor is one needed", this paper goes on to argue that business ethics...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Corporate Culture And Shareholder Value In Banking Industry
Apr 2008
This paper analyses the casual relationship between corporate culture and shareholder value using a sample of large banks in the French, German, Italian and U.K. banking systems over the 2000 to...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Paving The Way For U.S. Climate Leadership
Apr 2008
The United States should classify new international agreements to protect the Earth's climate system as executive agreements rather than as treaties. Unlike treaties, which require the advice and...
Provided by Resources for the Future
-
Webcasts
Feedback Management Leader Vovici Grows Qualified Traffic 4X
Nov 2009
Vovici is an enterprise feedback application that offers tools like survey software, panel management and online community solutions to measure customer satisfaction and conduct market research....
Provided by HubSpot
-
Webcasts
Becoming An Effective Leader
Jan 2011
What does it take to be a leader? Although it can be defined in many different ways, a true leader takes his personal characteristics and puts them toward a specific goal or cause. Interestingly...
Provided by iEntry
-
White Papers
Leadership And Authenticity: A Sartrean Critique
Sep 2009
Currently 'Authentic Leadership' is attracting increasing attention. Authenticity is an important concept within existentialist thinking and a Sartrean critique of authentic leadership is offered...
Provided by University of Bradford
-
White Papers
Ethical Leadership Training: An Aristotelian Approach
Aug 2009
When it comes to the establishment of an ethical corporate culture, there appears to be at least two inter-related foundational requirements: The existence of an explicit set of core ethical...
Provided by York University
-
White Papers
A Citation-Based Ranking Of The Business Ethics Scholarly Journals
Feb 2009
The purpose of this paper is to develop a ranking of academic business ethics journals. For this, a revealed preference approach, also known as a citation impact method, was employed. The citation...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
-
White Papers
Leadership Qualities In Volatile Business Environments
Aug 2009
Turbulent economic environments such as the current Global Financial Crisis (GFC) present organisations with both challenges and opportunities. Researchers such as Sull (1999) and McGrath &...
Provided by Evanscorp
-
White Papers
Leadership Styles And Ethical Decision-Making In Hospitality Management
Jul 2008
This paper examined the ways in which hospitality leaders in Australia seek to influence others in the workplace. One hundred and thirty three managers of hotels rated as three, four or five stars...
Provided by Hong Kong Polytechnic University
-
White Papers
Business Ethics From A Historical Perspective
Nov 2009
This paper proposes three periodisations in the history of business ethics. Different styles and kinds of discourse were produced in each of the periods. The first includes the broader social...
Provided by RMIT University
-
White Papers
Ethical Perceptions Of Newly Staffed Accountants: An Exploratory Study
Feb 2011
The current economic crisis coupled with corporate scandals may have impacted the future leadership of newly staffed accountants. As a result, it may be of some benefit to see if the ethical...
Provided by Adelphi University
-
White Papers
Corporate Disclosure Determinants: A Cross-Country Investigation
Nov 2007
The wave of bankruptcies that have followed one upon the other in recent years as the consequence of financial scandals and the integration among the financial systems of various countries have...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Ann Tenbrunsel: We're Not As Ethical As We Think We Are
Jul 2010
This original study (Woodzicka and LaFrance) conducted in 2001, in which participants were faced with this imagined scenario, revealed that 68 percent predicted that they would refuse to answer...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
-
White Papers
Tonia Murphy Wins Outstanding Paper Award For Research On Reneging
Aug 2009
The paper examining the ethical considerations of job reneging won University of Notre Dame Business professor Tonia Hap Murphy the Ralph C. Hoeber Outstanding Article Award from the Academy of...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
When A Company Writes Its Code Of Ethics, Isn't It Wrong To Plagiarize?
Nov 2008
It is common practice for companies to copy others' ethics codes, sometimes word for word, according to research by University of Notre Dame finance professors Tim Loughran and Bill McDonald and...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
-
White Papers
Roundtable Considers Careers In Nonprofit Industry
Jan 2010
Executive leaders from several nonprofit organizations ranging from the arts to education will describe career opportunities and their own job paths during the Third Annual Non-Profit Roundtable...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
-
White Papers
Towards Inter-Ethnic Business Development And National Unity In Malaysia
Jan 2010
This paper investigates Chinese-Bumiputera partnerships in small and medium enterprises, particularly in the manufacturing sector, in the economic liberalisation of post-NEP Malaysia. The research...
Provided by CRISE
-
White Papers
Ethnic Entrepreneurs In Australia: A Story Of Relationships And Networks
Aug 2010
The internationalisation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is a key challenge and of interest to policy makers, individual firms and researchers in Australia. SMEs significantly drive growth...
Provided by University of Sydney
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Integrity, Respect For Others, And Ethics ? Three Essential Leadership Qualities
Apr 2011
Ethics, respect for others and integrity, should definitely be pre requisites for leadership. Unfortunately many so called leaders do not understand or practice these values. Some leaders who are...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Business Ethics Pedagogy: A Synthesis Of Paradigms, Philosophies, And Teaching Methods
Apr 2011
Is the job as educators to teach students how to make ethical decisions or is it to teach students how to become innately better people, thus becoming better ethical decision-makers on the job?...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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Linking Strategy, Leadership And Organization Culture For Project Success
Aug 2007
The concept of organization culture is not new. For many decades, the influence of culture on an organization has been the focus of significant research and study - and for good reason: Culture...
Provided by Palatine Group/Management Worlds
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The Usefulness Of Infra-Annual Government Cash Budgetary Data For Fiscal Forecasting In The Euro Area
May 2008
Short-term fiscal indicators based on public accounts data are often used by European policy makers. They represent one of the main sources of publicly available intra-annual fiscal information....
Provided by European Central Bank
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CEO Power, Compensation, And Governance
Aug 2007
This paper presents a contracting model of governance based on the premise that CEOs are the main promoters of governance change. CEOs use their power to extract higher pay or private benefits,...
Provided by Boston University
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Another Look At Director Independence
Oct 2007
Despite the widely held view that director independence improves corporate governance, few studies find that board composition affects firm performance or CEO compensation. In this paper the...
Provided by University of Colorado
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Relays And Marathons: The Effects Of Succession Choice Surrounding CEO Turnover Announcements
Aug 2007
This paper examines marathon successions, which the author defines as instances where a permanent successor is not chosen at the time of a CEO departure. Marathons have become increasingly...
Provided by University of Arizona
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Extending Likages Between Organizational Analysis And Social Structure: A Case Study Of The Celebrity-construction Of A Chinese Marketplace
Aug 2009
This paper examines the emergence of firm-celebrity, both an intangible-asset, and a facilitator of competitive advantage. Institutional approaches have asserted that organizations from the same...
Provided by University of Michigan
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Do Culture And Governance Structure Influence CSR Reporting Quality: Evidence From China, India, Malaysia And The United Kingdom
Jul 2010
This paper provides preliminary findings on CSR disclosure practices in various reporting media used by 70 big corporations in China, India, Malaysia and the UK. It also investigates whether...
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