Reconsidering Africa’s Leadership Crisis and Endemic Civil Conflicts

Principal-principal conflicts during crisis

This paper explores principal-principal conflicts in corporate governance during times of economic crisis. We address the question: What external and internal governance mechanisms can best protect minority shareholders? Drawing on 877 publicly listed large corporations with concentrated ownership in seven Asian countries and regions, we compare different control structures between family firms...

Leadership in a (permanent) crisis.

The current economic crisis is not just another rough spell. Today's mix of urgency, high stakes, and uncertainty will continue even after the recession ends. The immediate crisis--which we will get through with policy makers' expert technical adjustments--sets the stage for a sustained, or even permanent, crisis, a relentless series of challenges no one has encountered before. Instead of hunke...

Crisis Leadership and Why It Matters

60 December January 2011 threatening H1N1 pandemic. Add to this list the run-of-the-mill business crisis such as a product recall (e.g., Toyota), labor strikes, and class action lawsuits (e.g., Wal-Mart), as well as new crises sparked by the proliferation of social media and you may begin to wonder whether crises, generally defined as rare and extreme high-impact events, have become the new nor...

Appendix: Military Intervention and Settlement Durability in Civil Conflicts

Reconsidering the "Software Crisis": A Study of Hypermedia Systems Development

With the advent and growth of the Web, hypermedia information systems have propagated within and beyond organizations. Much concern has been expressed about the quality of hypermedia systems being developed and the apparent absence of disciplined development practices. There has been talk that the infamous “software crisis” is afflicting hypermedia systems development, allegedly brought about b...