In many animal groups, coordinated activity is facilitated by the emergence of leaders and followers. Although the identity of leaders is to some extent predictable, most groups experience frequent changes of leadership. How do group members cope with such changes in their social role? Here, we compared the foraging behaviour of pairs of stickleback fish after a period of either (i) role reinfo...

BACKGROUND There is a growing acknowledgement that doctors need to develop leadership and management competences to become more actively involved in the planning, delivery and transformation of patient services. We undertook a systematic review of what is known concerning the knowledge, skills and attitudes of medical students regarding leadership and management. Here we report the results pert...

In the context of outbreak COVID-19, public life and corporate profits have been influenced greatly. This paper takes McDonald’s as case study object to explore impact competitive strategy on profitability. Through investigation, it is found that profitability operation are generally good due its accurate strategic positioning. However, under COVID19, profit slightly weak. Therefore, helps clar...

-Making a profit from e-commerce is becoming mature after A.D. 2000. Online auction is one of successful business model on e-commerce. For example, eBay’s trading volume is close to 4.552 billion dollars, and net profit is 1.082 billion dollars in 2005. This booming market reminds academics to do further research in this area. This research investigates the marketing strategies of online auctio...

The basic premise of the "Beyond Strategy" approach is that in business we put up fantasy measures that we call business planning, such as budget planning and strategic planning, which Stacey claims is a political process, primarily as social defences against anxiety. This distorts what we are actually doing and distracts us from the actual direct experiences we are having of each other as what...

In construction management the definition of a robust schedule is often more important than finding a time and cost efficient schedule. In nearly every construction project the planned schedule must be continually adapted due to disruptions. Therefore, it is imperative that a robust schedule should be generated regarding the different project objectives. In the context of planning and schedulin...

In accordance with the globalization of trade and business, a new paradigm of work pattern known as Virtual Organization (VO) emerged in 1990s. VO particularly removes time and location barriers but links companies via ICTs which enable them to collaborate on a worldwide scale. While at same time being engaged in collaboration, VO partners have been increasingly relying on Virtual Team (VT) to ...