Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and process of leadership in a mid-sized, family-controlled bank in Singapore in order to understand how it grew and developed under family control. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on distributed leadership as a...

The growing imperative for social sciences to apply more directly to the communities they study raises issues about how researchers develop their capabilities to interact with people in such communities throughout their career. A traditional model sees researcher education focus on challenges...

The authors focus on the way in which owner-managers in smaller firms improve their businesses through the creation of ‘strategic space’. The term ‘strategic space’ refers to the process by which owner-managers are able to access resources, motivation and capability to review existing...