Different from the separation between ownership and corporate right of control in traditional companies, human capital and the invisible assets under its control contributes more to the corporate value in high-tech companies than the visible ones. There are many differences between the corporate governance in high-tech companies and the standardized ones, some of which are even essential differ...

Abstract This article draws on interviews with 41 equality and diversity staff in higher education institutions England who were not members of the Race Equality Charter (REC). It uses concept Whiteness White privilege to argue that within framework normative practices, role are used as a smokescreen perpetuate system privilege. Higher REC do invest such initiatives protect their own interests....

CEOs' perceptions of the environment and information processing shortcuts (or heuristics) they use to develop these are important organizations. We study whether organizational structure, an channel filter for flow in organizations, affects perception gaps pertaining competitive environment. Perception defined as systematic deviations subjective from conceptions based on objective data. Studyin...

We examine how organizational structure influences strategies over which corporate leaders have significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element, the corporate foundation, constrains the influence of individual senior managers and directors on corporate strategy. Our analysis of Fortune 500 firms from 1996 to 2006 shows that leader c...

Although we know that the use of accounting information and the leadership styles of managers are related, only little is known about how the leadership styles of managers affect the information receivers’ reaction to management accounting change. Therefore, using a case study of a company that owns ten car dealerships, this paper explores how the leadership styles of managers can affect the us...

This paper is concerned with why managers use the World Wide Web as a channel for information acquisition. The study involved a case study involving eight senior managers in a large organisation. The study found that web-based information acquisition by managers is a complex socio-technical activity. The web may not be as important to managers as it is for other classes of knowledge workers and...

This article examines how cultural contexts influence the demonstration of resilient behaviors women senior managers in large organizations. We compare experiences Malaysian and Australian overcoming key challenges obstacles their career journeys by engaging resilience strategies network leveraging, learning, adaptability. Our findings reveal unique, complex, contextual nature resilience, show ...

Research Summary Solving non-routine problems—problems for which current organizational, recurrent action patterns do not offer a predetermined, effective solution—can be an important source of value creation. When these problems occur in subsidiaries multinational corporations, senior headquarters managers can potentially help solve them. However, whether their involvement is beneficial rests ...