In the 21st century, small and medium service firms face difficulty sustaining their performance. Additionally, literature on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in SMEs is scarce. Moreover, role of cost leadership strategy as a mediator lacks researchers’ attention. Therefore, this research aims to examine relationship between EO performance with mediating strategy. Based contingency theory, theo...

Hospitals will soon require antibiotic stewardship programs. Infectious diseases specialists must craft business plans to engage hospital leadership to fund such programs. In this article, we review key cost and revenue elements that should be covered in such plans. Society is placing increasing emphasis on the importance of antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs). New regulatory standards re...

BACKGROUND During the last two decades, medical education in Iran has shifted from elite to mass education, with a considerable increase in number of schools, faculties, and programs. Because of this transformation, it is a good case now to explore academic leadership in a non-western country. The objective of this study was to explore the views on effective academic leadership requirements hel...

I n a fast-changing world, the question for many senior managers is: ‘‘What leadership strategy is needed for my organization to stay competitive and to thrive?’’ To many academics and consultants, visionary leadership or leadership with vision as a core component is the answer. Although scholars, corporate trainers, and management consultants often emphasize the importance of espousing a visio...

The paper examines the role of leadership in facilitating collective learning and capacity building by utilising ideas from the fields of evolutionary learning, operations strategy, quality, project and risk management. Two contrasting cases are chosen to show how success and failure can depend upon collective capacity building through participative leadership and Organisational Learning (OL). ...