This article investigates how the job histories of CEOs influence their capital allocation decisions when they preside over multidivisional firms. I find that, after CEO turnover, divisions not previously affiliated with the new CEO receive significantly more capital expenditures than divisions through which the new CEO has advanced. The pattern of reverse-favoritism in capital allocation is mo...

This paper develops a framework for studying individuals’ ideas about what constitutes just compensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay and the principles guiding ideas of justice among students pursuing a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Sweden and the United States. The framework, based on justice theory and making use of Rossi’s f...

A national pilot scheme aims to give power back to clinicians and hospital managers, unraveling the crisis of mismanagement, poor planning and endemic corruption that has long compromised and even prevented healthcare delivery at Johannesburg's top tertiary hospitals. The pilot turnaround strategy will begin with the embattled Gauteng health department, and ultimately aims to correct the ongoin...

To what extent does the gender of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) matter in relationship between home country corruption and firm exports? Drawing on post-structural feminist institutional theories, we employ self-reported micro-level cross-country data from 4714 firms 75 countries during 2008-2015 to examine how differences contexts affect exports men- women-led firms. We find that pervasive a...

It may sound like heresy, but making the ‘fuzzy’ discipline of management even fuzzier is paying dividends for business leaders. Indeed, an increasing number of CEOs and senior managers are now questioning the conventional wisdom that decision-making should be strictly analytical – they have found that sometimes it should be intuitive. This article discusses the latest findings in executive dec...

The career pinnacle for most people in business is that of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This aspiration extends to individuals that have moved into managerial positions from specialist or technical areas. Engineers are one such group. It follows that there are other specific skills and attributes that may identify someone as having the ability to become a CEO. Therefore, by identifying th...

The CEO succession process is broken. Many companies have no meaningful succession plans, and few of the ones that do are happy with them. CEO tenure is shrinking; in fact, two out of five CEOs fail in their first 18 months. It isn't just that more CEOs are being replaced; it's that they're being replaced badly. The problems extend to every aspect of CEO succession: internal development program...

This article aims to explore Chief Executive Officers’ (CEOs’) past experiences in shaping the learning process that occurred at workplace. A theoretical framework for this study is anchored from situated theory. The primary elements of theory are communities practice and legal peripheral participation, which these concepts were investigated among CEOs private organizations Malaysia. interpreti...

There is a wide array of research on the topic of the chief executive officer (CEO)-chief information officer (CIO) relationship that affects the strategic use of information technology (IT) (i.e., strategic alignment). However, the literature about divergent perception of IT expectation between the two groups, depending on their emphasis of innovation is sparse. This study fulfils this gap. Qu...

This paper investigates the impact of female chief executive officers (CEOs) on women’s representation board directors (BoD). As scholars maintain that positive effects exerted by gender diversity firms’ performance depend achievement a critical mass, we focus role CEOs as determinant number appointed women in context family businesses, exploring how persistence stereotypes, along with homosoci...