In an exploratory study of British and Swedish managers' perspectives on the process of signalling high commitment, half said they actively managed the promotion of commitment. They did this through behaviours which could be described as impression management strategies, which differed by...

Summary This paper investigates the human capital profile of new appointees to corporate boards, exploring gender differences in education, profile and career experiences. Findings from a study of UK boards reveal that women are significantly more likely to bring international diversity to their...

Much of the work on stereotypes has focused on discrimination for women and minorities in the workplace. Stereotypes, however, can also exist among managers, potentially influencing their judgement when undertaking business deals with counterparts from other countries. Paul Burns, Andrew Myers...

An international survey of outsourcing contrasts current practice between US and European companies. US companies are identified as pursuing more value adding sourcing strategies while European companies are more focused on gaining economies of scale through outsourcing. Despite the commodity...

This paper draws together four related strands of theory to address the processes of corporate value creation. Specifically, contributions from resource-based theory, dynamic capabilities, corporate strategy and Mintzberg's structure theory have been combined to derive four congruent...

This paper sets out to develop a visioning process management model and clarify the visionary/visioning leadership portfolio of skills. By defining and examining visioning from a wide range of current and classic texts a series of key themes emerge. These are incorporated in, and indeed help...

Management development in developing countries requires processes and approaches which may differ substantially from those assumed to be normal in industrialised societies. The growing European concern with helping management development in the emerging countries formed a basic theme of EFMD's...

Based on a survey of top managers and top teams of medium- to large-size companies in Europe, Andrew Kakabadse and Andrew Myers categorise four distinctly separate boardrooms styles of thinking, feeling, and behaving, which they term inspirational, elitist, consensual and directive. Clearly,...

In this article, Siobhan Alderson and Andrew Kakabadse undertake the first formal study of Irish attitudes to ethics in business. Some 930 senior managers in the Republic of Ireland, UK and the US are surveyed, and Irish attitudes compared with those in the UK and US. Four key areas are...

Although Boards of Trustees have statutory authority over pension fund investment, how these boards exercise their responsibility is considered to vary unduly. Recently, pension fund trustees have been under pressure from government, sponsors and beneficiaries. The question being asked is, 'What...