In this article, the authors focus on members of the U.S. Senior Executive Service who choose collaboration as a management strategy to increase performance and, in particular, their views of the skill set of a successful collaborator. Based on the current literature on collaboration and networks, these executives might be expected to identify strategic thinking and strategic management as the ...

In cooperation with the About the survey The Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 670 executives in January 008 about their attitudes to cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The survey and paper were sponsored by Marsh, Mercer and Kroll. Respondents represent a range of different regions, with approximately 30% from Asia-Pacific; one-quarter each from Europe and North America; and the remaind...

We develop a framework for analyzing an executives own-company stockholding and work effort preferences. The executive, characterized by risk aversion and work effectiveness parameters, invests his personal wealth without constraint in the financial market, including the stock of his own company whose value he can directly influence with work effort. The executives utilitymaximizing personal in...

This article seeks to identify the existence of ambiguities in the day-to-day use of smartphones by Brazilian executives. In this manner, fourteen technological paradoxes were identified from the theoretical reference base adopted. The single representative case study method was then applied, by analysing a Brazilian company in the pharmaceutical sector, which has a policy of providing smartpho...

Executive information systems (EIS) are the most-recent computer-based information systems to have emerged with the intention of providing executives with the information they require to run their businesses. Some advocates of these systems see them as a panaceathe long-awaited moment when computing will provide meaningful and significant assistance to top management. However, others have ques...

The authors review the role of financial accounting information from the perspective of a radiology executive. They begin by introducing the role of pro forma statements. They discuss the fundamental concepts of accounting, including the matching principle and accrual accounting. The authors then explore the use of financial accounting information in making investment decisions in diagnostic me...

Many series have been published on the values of haemoglobin in healthy men; these usually place the mean value at about 14 to 15 g./100 ml. in agreement with the commonly used figure of 14-6 g./100 ml. = 100 per cent. (Miale 1962; Pryce, 1960; Britton, 1963). Variations in different industries and occupations have not however been studied in depth (Williams, 1966: lead workers; Kilpatrick, 196...

Stock option grants have become an increasingly popular component of executive compensation as firms seek to align the interests of executives and shareholders. For example, in 1999, 47% of the total compensation of S&P 500 executives was accounted for by stock options, up 22% from 1992 (Hall & Murphy, 2002). In contrast to their increased popularity, the value of executives’ stock option portf...

Many organisations are starting to use social media for business purposes, although some industries are more advanced than others. This paper looks at the banking industry, and focuses specifically on how senior executives in this industry perceive social media and its value. Hence this paper is an exploratory interpretive study of the attitudes of senior banking executives to social media. Ass...

A new decision support system is developed for assisting business executives in deciding the e-business models to adopt for new business ventures. The developed system is based on a new framework using fuzzy logic theory. A detailed conceptual design is developed. The proposed system solves important challenges such as the use of linguistic terms to capture the executives’ assessments of the ke...