Purpose Chief executive officers (CEOs) are increasingly seen as change agents for gender equality, which means that CEOs have to lead others achieve equality. Much of this leadership is going happen through talk, raises the question how talk about equality act agents. The purpose paper understand arguments deploy. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on interviews with global CEOs, who publicly...

INTRODUCTION A variety of studies have indicated that rural communities have fewer mental health services and professionals than their urban counterparts. This study will examine the shortages of mental health professionals in rural communities as well as the impact of inadequate mental health services access on rural hospitals. METHODS A sample frame of 1162 rural hospitals was compiled, and...

Editor: Panu Poutvaara Executive Officers (CEOs) predicted their companies' financial performance prior to the Inferences of leadership ability and personality from faces have been associated with leaders' efficacy across multiple domains. One influential factor that has only been scarcely explored, however, is the context in which leadership occurs. The present studies examined the effect of t...

On their journey toward digital transformation, industrial firms need to embrace innovation. The top management team (TMT) is expected set the course for innovation, which a challenging endeavour given novel and cross-functional nature of We draw on role theory make sense emerging requirements TMT combine this view with upper echelon hypothesize specific characteristics that are needed first th...

The chief executive officers (CEOs) of 96 multisite, U.S.-based hotel owner/operator companies were interviewed and asked to describe the dominant upcoming threats and opportunities they perceived for their segment. Responses converged in describing two major threats (overbuilding and economic downturn) but were far more divergent in descriptions of opportunities. This pattern may emerge from t...

Scholars frequently argue whether the sharp rise in chief executive officer (CEO) pay in recent years is “efficient” or is a consequence of “rent extraction” because of the failure of corporate governance in individual firms. This article argues that governance failure must be conceptualized at the market rather than the firm level because excessive pay increases for even relatively few CEOs a ...

T he two-faced Roman god Janus could see both forward and backward simultaneously. In describing the “Janus Effect” as it relates to the effectiveness of corporate chief executive officers (CEOs), California business gurus James Kouzes and Barry Posner suggest that CEOs who reflect furthest back are those who also plan ahead most effectively. In terms of antibiotic discovery, we would do well t...

Can shareholder voting prevent managers from destroying value in corporate acquisitions? Previous studies based on U.S. data are inconclusive because shareholder approval is discretionary. We study the U.K. where approval is mandatory for deals exceeding a multivariate relative-size threshold. We find that in the U.K. shareholders gain 8 cents per dollar at announcement with mandatory voting, o...

This commentary outlines the views of a current head teacher after receiving increased marketing and persuasive letters from multi-academy trust (MAT) chief executive officers (CEOs) in an attempt to expand their MATs. Following Department for Education’s academisation programme, which aims convert all schools England MATs by 2030, this reflection highlights implications programme reflects, ins...

This article reports on an examination of the relationships between chief executive officer (CEO) personality, transformational and transactional leadership, and multiple strategic outcomes in a sample of 75 CEOs of Major League Baseball organizations over a 100-year period. CEO bright-side personality characteristics (core self-evaluations) were positively related to transformational leadershi...