The strategic leadership research stream characterisd by the predominantly instrumental upper-echelon research stream has provided extensive support for the strategic choice school of thought. In recent years it has been ctiticised for failing to develop from an exploration of whether...

This research examines the role and contribution of the Non Executive Director(NED) within the corporate board. The literature identifies the NED as a boundaryspanner. Boundary spanners are believed to be essential to the fulfilment of thefirm's corporate responsibility mandate. The research...

This thesis explores the impact of the use of Internet applications, provided by theHuman Resource (HR) ftinction as an internal supplier, on its internal customers'satisfaction at the managerial level with the HR function, using role theory to underpinthe research. From a review of the...

Purpose - This paper aims to offer a dynamic theory of leadership development.Design/methodology/approach - The paper examines selected leadership literaturethrough the lens of theory building-blocks. It identifies the role of the idealgoal in leadership and its importance in developing the...

Economic theories of the entrepreneur have received more attention recently in theentrepreneurship literature. Different concepts and ideas are typically borrowed from variouseconomists to create new, or expand upon existing, theories. This has created a somewhatfragmented literature, and I...

This paper draws together four related strands of theory to address theprocesses of corporate value creation. Specifically, contributions fromresource-based theory, dynamic capabilities, corporate strategy and Mintzberg’sstructure theory have been combined to derive four congruent...

Much has been made in recent years of the advantages to business of being a good corporatecitizen; numerous studies now show a positive link between financial performance and ethicalbehavior. There is however little work which explores the role of the board and in particular howNon Executive or...

Technological innovation continually shifts boundaries of possibilities and at the same time challenges ethical dimensions. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology challenges both what is possible and what is ethical. On this basis, this paper incorporates an analysis of RFID...