Existence of an adequate project champion role has been identified as a critical success factor in Enterprise Resource … Planning (ERP) implementation projects. However, the figure of the project champion is not yet quite well understood. Some … authors relate it with the project sponsor figure while others relate it with the project manager figure. This paper tries to …

sense making about leaders. A socio-cognitive model of leadership is advanced in which followers´ views of their leaders … are conceptualized as cognitive architectures composed of leadership and other organizational concepts. The cognitive … aspect of the model suggests that leadership information does not exist in a vacuum, but rather it is integrated with other …

We present an information based model of leadership in a setting that exhibits the familiar problems of free riding and … coordination failure. Leaders have superior information about the value of the project in hand and can send a costly signal to … their uninformed followers to persuade them to cooperate in the project. Followers voluntarily choose whether or not to …

within which universities direct their activities. To facilitate this process a new conception of leadership is invoked … universities despite the general shift in the business world to notions of transformational and distributed leadership - appear not … understandings of leadership, both in the literature and ‘in action’ via the perspectives of university leaders and decision …

This study examines how far restructuring has involved a change in leadership style and the development of new …

In this study we aim to explain the patterns of leadership roles for team effectiveness in non economic organizations … between the type of organization (specially teams) and the role of leadership is not random. Therefore, we believe that an … empirical approach is necessary to test the assumptions about leadership and team effectiveness. Also these empirical results …

rethinking of leadership, taking the mundane, almost trivial, aspects of what managers/leaders actually do seriously. In the … them a special, emotional value beyond their everyday significance. Leadership is conceptualized as the extra …