Senior women managers’ transition to entrepreneurship

Factors influencing middle managers’ ability to contribute to corporate entrepreneurship

Corporate entrepreneurship (CE)has emergedas an important strategy forhotels in recent years, allowing rejuvenation of internal processes and activities for improved performance. Although CE is instigated by senior management, middle managers carry out their instructions and hence have a critical role in its success. This conceptual paper evaluates the antecedents or factors that may impact on ...

Women Managers and the

Gender and managerial status have previously been found to relate to work-family conflict, though the combination of gender and managerial status has received less attention. This study explores differences in levels of work-family conflict and related job attitude and health and coping variables among women managers, men managers, women non-managers, and men non-managers at a large organizatio...

Entrepreneurship for Managers Strategic Decision-Making for Business Growth

SME Managers' Most Important Entrepreneurship and Business Competences

The requirements of an increasing globalized and competitive economy lead managers to search for training solutions which can rapidly bridge the gap of their lacking skills, knowledge or competences. To assert with adequate training programs, in particular for SMEs managers, a study was conducted in six European countries with the objective of identifying the most relevant competences they need...

How Senior Managers Acquire and Use Information in Environmental Scanning

Environmental scanning is the acquisition and use of information about events and trends in an organization’s external environment, the knowledge of which would assist management in planning the organization’s future courses of action. This paper reports a study of how 13 chief executives in the Canadian publishing and telecommunications industries scan their environments and use the informatio...