Journal of Management‚ Vol. 13‚ 83–95 (2002) RESEARCH NOTE How Much do CEOs and Top Managers Matter in Strategic Decision-Making? V. M. Papadakis and P. Barwise* Athens University of Economics and Business‚ 76 Patission Street‚ 10434 Athens‚ Greece and *London Business School‚ Regent’s Park‚ London NW1 4SA‚ UK email: vpap@aueb.gr [Papadakis]; pbarwise@london.edu [Barwise] This research note explores the influence of both CEO and top-management team (TMT) characteristics on the process of making
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Corporate level strategy is about creating value by coordinating resources across business units and finding new ways to develop and capitalise on the organisation’s capabilities over a long-term horizon. Welch demonstrated his ability to articulate and transmit his values and vision with remarkable fervour and clarity throughout the organisation. However‚ despite its success‚ this resource-based view was perhaps too inward looking‚ the reward system too focused on short term individual performance
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leadership beginning with Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bernard Ebbers was certainly at the forefront of these problems. The question is should a CEO like Ebbers have been sentenced to prison for his liability in the WorldCom scandal? My answer is yes‚ he should’ve gone to prison as well as other CEOs who engage in unethical conduct that results in laws being violated. I will support my answer by taking a look at the duties of a CEO‚ focusing on leadership responsibilities and accountability
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Love Me in My Language: A Look at The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman University of Central Florida Nicholson School of Communication Love Me in My Language: A Look at The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman Gary Chapman is a marriage counselor who also leads marriage enrichment seminars. Through counseling and observing various married couples‚ Chapman has theorized that there are different ways that different people perceive love. One person could feel especially loved
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CEO and CFO perceptions about AIS impact on firm performance and financial reporting: How do SOX‚ COSO‚ and the implementation of IT help reduce fraud and increase productivity in a business? In the multifaceted‚ dynamic‚ corporate global milieu‚ imminent rifts continue to rattle the arenas of accounting/finance. The personal ambitions of CEO’s and CFO’s outweighed their responsibilities toward shareholders‚ employees‚ operations‚ civic/ethical duties‚ and the general financial system. CEO’s primarily
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After reading the section entitled ’Was Colonial Culture Uniquely American’ in the book Taking Sides‚ I came to the conclusion that colonial culture was uniquely American. Professor Gary B. Nash states time and time again that the combination of the Europeans‚ Native Americans‚ and Africans created a unique triracial society. Although other reasons do comply with my choice‚ they all basically come back to this statement. First‚ Mr. Nash describes the effect the Native Americans had on the building
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a high level of motivation will produce a higher economic benefit to the profit of the company. The intent of this writing is to explore what the Path-Goal theory is‚ how it relates to leadership‚ and then apply the components to how James Parker‚ CEO of southwest airlines‚ appears to use them to facilitate daily operations within the company. The Path-Goal theory was developed from studies conducted by Robert House (Robbins 493). House chose to deviate from Fiedler’s traditional Contingency theories
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HOW CAN ORGANIZATIONS SAFEGUARD THEMSELVES AGAINST EXCESSIVE RISK TAKEN BY NARCISSISTIC CEOS May 2013 (net word count: 3.226) by QIAN CHEN MARK ELSMA FENNA PIERSEMA JAN ROELAND University of Groningen Faculty of Economics and Business 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 3 2 ANALYSIS ........................................................................
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Prepare yourself for a journey. Travel with me‚ as we explore the mind of a character named Roy played by Edward Norton in the film directed by Gregory Hoblit in 1996 Titled “Primal Fear”. In this film Roy suffers from a psychological disorder. As we travel on this journey deep into the mind of this character‚ we will begin to unlock the secrets that lay within. Discovering what psychological disorder Roy suffers from‚ how he thinks and his thought process from a bio-psychological perspective‚ and
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In the article “140 Characters of Risk: Some CEOs Fear Twitter‚” published in 2012 in The Wall Street Journal‚ it was stated that: “ Many corporate leaders say they are too busy running a company to spend time posting 140-character messages to Twitter‚ or re-tweeting posts from followers.” (Kwoh and Korn‚ 2012) Studies conducted in 2012 (CEO.com/Domo‚ 2012) showed that only one in 20 business leaders were using Twitter. Likewise‚ the importance of social media in this digital era can seem unclear
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