Some see India’s corporate sector as the fundamental driver of recent and future prosperity. Others see it as a source of excessive market power, personal enrichment, and influence over the State, with an ultimately distorting influence. To inform this debate, this paper analyses the...

Purpose – This paper aims to outline three ways in which a leader's behavior‐in‐context can be examined. As such it moves away from an emphasis on a leader's “performance and personality” and focuses on underlying contextual features which can lead to success or failure....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the need to examine non‐conventional motivations of leaders and illustrate how such underlying dynamics can result in executive failure and organisational decline. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reflects on some of the...