This paper explores the phenomenon of Thailand's female entrepreneurs and account for some of the cultural drivers in the way in which Thai women operate to be the leading country in the world for female entrepreneurship in terms of entrepreneurial activity. Based on interviews, media reporting,...

We measure the transmittance of LaMnO<Subscript>3</Subscript> (LMO) thin films in the spectral range from 10 000 to 38 000 cm<Superscript>-1</Superscript> as a function of temperature. The optical conductivity obtained from the transmittance data is decomposed into five Drude-Lorentz contributions: three of them show evident changes below...</superscript></subscript>

Successful entrepreneurs are often inclined or required to explain themselves and their motivations to others. In telling their stories, these entrepreneurs often create an aura of charismatic leadership of the type that Weber describes as having the 'gift of grace' (Khurana, 2002). Their life...

Open up any professional business magazine, peruse the list of any top 100 companies, or walk in to a board room anywhere in the world and almost certainly you can expect to see men in suits and a smattering of women. This division of labour seems so natural in corporate life that if one were to...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of senior women managers leaving corporate organisations to start their own companies. Women's advancement to senior management roles is facilitated by the acquisition of human capital and social capital. Female ex-corporate managers leverage...

This special issue is dedicated to exploring the convergence and divergence of national systems of industrial relations (IR) and human resource management (HRM). Faced with increasingly competitive environments, multinational firms may adapt certain management practices which are then...

Accenture is the world’s leading management consulting and technology services company with more than 75,000 employees in 47 countries. (See Appendix A for a comparison with other management consultancies.) The company generated net revenues of US $11.6 billion for the fiscal year ended August...

This chapter focuses on the outsourcing and offshoring of finance activities in the firm from firm, host country and home country perspectives. Globalisation, technology, regulation changes, stakeholder pressures, and firm re-organisation changes present challenges and opportunities to firm...

This paper makes two types of contributions to research on new venture teams. First, we examine previously neglected aspects of team composition, such as homogeneity and heterogeneity in terms of resource provision and prior start-up experience. Second, we attempt to reconcile conflicting...

This paper investigates the factors driving informal investment in Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia. Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data, we find that the low rates of informal investment activity and the small amounts of investments in these countries are driven by entrepreneurial...