Objective: The research involved a board room role-playing exercise in financial decision making that challenged students to take ethically corrective action to overturn a bank CEO’s ethically questionable decisions. Prior to the role-play, some students received training about the dangers of heuristics and others received training in ethical decision making. Background: In group decision makin...

Purpose: The study aims to understand what CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) of Maltese PIEs (Public Interest Entities) expect from their CFOs Financial Officers). Furthermore, the seeks establish whether are expected focus solely on finance, or they should also participate in strategy and planning. identify factors skills that lead a more effective CEO-CFO relationship. Methodology: follows qual...

Drawing on environmental sustainability and indigenous conservationism literature, we examine the influence of chief executive officers' (CEOs) beliefs firms’ expenditure through mediating mechanism managerial attitudes towards natural environment. Using data collected from 494 small medium-sized enterprises in a developing country, found that superstition positively affects national environmen...

Numerous studies have shown the prevalence of overconfidence among Chief Financial Officers (CFOs). Surprisingly, real effect CFO is under-researched. Using data from a large sample US-listed firms over period 1993–2019 and adopting an eclectic theoretical approach, we find that overconfident CFOs are more likely to increase stock price crash risk than non-overconfident through risk-taking bad ...

This study replicates and extends an earlier work conducted by the Southwestern Law Enforcement Institute. It addresses the serious problem of domestic violence by police officers in three areas: determining the extent of the problem, deriving solutions acceptable to police culture, and establishing a research agenda for future efforts. The study took place in seven agencies located in the Sout...

This article appraises the report Strengthening the Commitment, which is a UK-wide review of learning disabilities nursing by the UK's four chief nursing officers. Strengthening the Commitment has strategic importance in reviewing progress in the care of people with learning disabilities in the UK. It also has a role in helping to guide future strategies and initiatives addressing the continuin...

F or twenty-five years, competition has been at the heart of corporate strategy. Today, one can hardly speak of strategy without involving the language of competition: competitive strategy, competitive benchmarking, building competitive advantages, and beating the competition. Such focus on the competition traces back to corporate strategy’s roots in military strategy. The very language of corp...

Purpose: This study aims to examine the relationship between Chief Financial Officer (CFO) education background and company performance. We identified educational levels, namely bachelor, master, doctorate, certification.Method: uses 1176 sample companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange IDX in2014-2017. purposing sampling testing Ordinary Least Square Regression STATA 14.Finding: found that ...

Information Systems (IS) and Technologies assume a wide variety of roles within companies, ranging from operational to strategic support of the company. This fact puts pressure on managers, who are required to manage these investments properly. This chapter presents a study conducted with several Chief Information Officers from large Iberian companies with the purpose of identifying and charact...

Cloud computing has been on the agenda of many CIOs (Chief-Information Officers) for the last couple of years. At the same time academic research on cloud computing is slowly emerging. Although mainly Information Technology (IT) operations related, cloud computing is also relevant from an electronic commerce (and electronic business) perspective. Research around cloud computing is becoming more...