Debates often arise about who is best suited to manage a healthcare organization. Therefore, we argue that an examination of the ability of healthcare organizations' chief executive officers (CEOs) to make strategic decisions is warranted. Is the most appropriate leader the medically educated CEO, whose training in patient care allows him or her to be most cognizant of the quality-of-care needs...

The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between leadership styles of managers in relation to market orientation. Personal characteristics of top managers—age, education, area of specialization, and executive experience—are control variables. This exploratory study focuses on small and medium scale manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Market orientation is defined as ...

We study the effects of competitive preferences, where Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) compare their wage to the wage of other CEOs within the same industry, and derive utility from being ahead of them. We show that such social concerns work in the direction of CEO wages being positively correlated, in contrast to the Relative Performance Evaluation hypothesis, but consistent with several empir...

This study explored the impact of online talent management systems on personnel recruiting, attraction, retention, and overall company performance. It involved 135 graduates working in international companies 46 top managers chief executive officers (CEOs). Surveys interviews matters related to use were conducted. encompasses five stages is projected take from 2 4.5 years be put into practice. ...

Abstract This paper seeks to understand the structure of corporate networks in period following dissolution Deutschland AG (“Germany Inc.”). For this purpose, affiliation among chief executive officers (CEOs) that are based on common membership various societal organizations will be examined. I apply an innovative mix methods for studying a sample CEOs from 100 top companies Germany 2010s. Base...

We argue that individual characteristics of managers can explain capital structure decisions like debt conservatism and pecking-order …nancing choices. Moreover, they can explain cross-sectional variation in these decisions despite identical …rm characteristics. We link the reluctance of (some) managers to access external capital markets, and in particular equity markets, to managerial overcon…...

This study is on the role of chief executive officers (CEOs) of large nondotcom companies undergoing major information technology (IT) induced organizational changes. Interviews were conducted with Australian CEOs to determine their perception of their role in IT induced organizational change. Two questions that this study answers are: How did CEOs provide leadership when dealing with issues be...

Inferences from faces can predict success. This may be particularly important for women, who are often evaluated by their appearance. Here 170 northeastern U.S. undergraduates judged personality traits or leadership ability from the faces of all 20 U.S. Fortune 1,000: 2006 female chief executive officers (CEOs) and we compared these ratings to the same trait ratings made for male CEOs in a prev...

Abstract The question of why some firms grow faster than others is high theoretical and practical importance. Beyond a wealth studies based on stochastic models, firm growth has mostly been explained by looking at the structural characteristics firms, sectors, countries. role managers’ in fostering firms’ explored much less. In this study, we adopt one key characteristic managers, age chief exe...