LEADERSHIP and MANAGEMENT in the 21ST CENTURY This Page Intentionally Left Blank LEADERSHIP and MANAGEMENT in the 21ST CENTURY

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

LEADERSHIP and MANAGEMENT in the 21ST CENTURY This Page Intentionally Left Blank LEADERSHIP and MANAGEMENT in the 21ST CENTURY LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY This page intentionally left blank LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE Edited by CARY L. COOPER 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Sa˜o Paulo Shanghai Taipei Tokyo Toronto Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York ß Cary L. Cooper 2005 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2005 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN 0–19–926336–1 13579108642 Typeset by Kolam Information Services Pvt. Ltd, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., King’s Lynn, Norfolk Contents List of Figures viii List of Tables ix Contributors x Introduction Cary L. Cooper 1 PART I CHALLENGES OF THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 19 1. Four Great Conflicts of the Twenty-First Century William H. Starbuck 21 2. Discretionary Leadership: From Control/ Co-ordination to Value Co-Creation Through Polylogue Nada Kakabadse and Andrew Kakabadse 57 3. Managers’ Lives, Work, and Careers in the Twenty-First Century Prabhu Guptara 107 4. Late Twentieth-Century Management, the Business School, and Social Capital Ken Starkey and Sue Tempest 139 vi Contents PART II THE ACADEMICS’ VIEW 161 5. A Next Challenge in Organizational Leadership Chris Argyris 163 6. Leadership in a Non-Linear World Fred E. Fiedler and Joseph E. Garcia 185 7. Leadership in the Private Sector: Yesterday Versus Tomorrow Gary P. Latham and Cynthia D. McCauley 204 8. Twenty-First Century Leadership—The God of Small Things; or Putting the ‘Ship’ Back into ‘Leadership’ Keith Grint 229 9. An Agenda for Understanding Individual Leadership in Corporate Leadership Systems Anne Sigismund Huff and Kathrin Moeslein 248 PART III THE PRACTITIONERS’ VIEW 271 10. Leading Human Capital and the Global Economy Hamish McRae 273 11. The Twenty-First Century Manager Book: Working on (and on and on . ) Sir Howard Davies 278 12. Managing Performance through People—the Challenge for Tomorrow’s Organization Geoff Armstrong 285 13. Managing for Creativity Sir Michael Bichard 299 Contents vii 14. Herding Cats or Luxuriating in Talent? Leadership and Management of Universities David Rhind 305 15. Management Education and Leadership Sue Cox and Steve Fox 334 16. What will Tomorrow’s Organization/Company look like over the Next Couple of Decades? Val Gooding 344 Index 355 List of Figures 2.1. Role Discretion 77 2.2. Discretionary Role Analysis 79 2.3. Open Information Interactions 90 2.4. Polylogue Pathway: Shifting Mindsets 91 2.5. Discretionary Leadership Communication for Platform Building 92 2.6. The Polylogue Scales 95 9.1. The Generic Leadership System 257 14.1. Increase and Projected Increases in the Number of Overseas Students, Broken down by the Major Educational Suppliers 308 14.2a. The Entirety of the ‘Geographical Framework’ of Britain in the 1960s 311 14.2b. Equivalent Information in Compact Disk Format 312 14.3. Graph of 170 British HEIs Ranked by Size of Total Income 315 14.4. Average Academic and Academic-Related Pay and Average Earnings 1981–2001. 318 List of Tables 2.1. Models of Capital 75 2.2. Migration of Leadership Models 81 2.3. Communication Models of Leadership 89 6.1. Medians and Range of Correlations between Leaders’ Intelligence and Experience Measures and Performance 186 6.2. Relationship between Leader Intelligence, Experience, and Stress on Performance 188 6.3. Relationship between Leader Personality and the Leadership Situation on Performance 195 9.1. Evolving Models of Leadership 251 14.1. The Qualities and Characteristics of a Successful Leader in the HE Sector 332 Contributors CARY L. COOPER, CBE Editor, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University Management School, UK and Pro Vice Chancellor, Lancaster University, UK CHRIS ARGYRIS Professor of Educational and Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School, USA GEOFF ARMSTRONG Director General, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK SIR MICHAEL BICHARD Director, The London Institute, UK SUE COX Dean, Lancaster University Management School, UK SIR HOWARD DAVIES Formerly CEO, The Financial Services Authority, Director of LSE, UK FRED E. FIEDLER Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Manage- ment and Organization, University of Washington, USA STEVE FOX Director of Research, Centre for Excellence in Lead- ership, Lancaster University Management School, UK JOSEPH E. GARCIA Director, Center for Excellence in Manage- ment Education, Western Washington University, USA VAL GOODING, CBE CEO, BUPA, UK KEITH GRINT Professor, Lancaster University Management School, UK Contributors xi PRABHU GUPTARA Executive Director, Wolfsberg (a subsidiary of UBS), Evmatingen, Switzerland ANNE SIGISMUND HUFF Formerly Director, Advanced Manage- ment Institute, UK NADA KAKABADSE Professor of Management and Business Re- search, University College Northampton, UK ANDREW KAKABADSE Deputy Director, Cranfield School of Management, UK GARY P. LATHAM Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Toronto, Canada CYNTHIA D. MCCAULEY Center for Creative Leadership, Univer- sity of Toronto HAMISH MCRAE Associate Editor, The Independent,UK KATHRIN MOESLEIN Research Associate, Advanced Manage- ment Institute, UK DAVID RHIND, CBE Vice Chancellor, City University London, UK CHRISTOPHER RODRIGUES CEO, Bradford & Bingley plc, UK WILLIAM H. STARBUCK The Stern School, New York University, USA KEN STARKEY Professor of Management and Organizational Learning, Nottingham University Business School, UK SUE TEMPEST Nottingham University Business School, UK This page intentionally left blank Introduction Cary L. Cooper The Changing Nature of Work The 1980s was described as the decade of the ‘enterprise culture’, with people working longer and harder to achieve individual success and material rewards. Globalization, privatization, pro- cess re-engineering, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and the like, all combine to transform workplaces into hot-house, free-market environments (Cooper, 1999). By the end of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, a major restructuring of work, as we have never known it since the industrial revolution, was beginning to take place. The early years of the decade were dominated by the effects of the reces- sion and efforts to get out of it. Organizations throughout the Western world, and even further afield, dramatically ‘down- sized’, ‘delayered’, ‘flattened’, or ‘rightsized’. Whatever eu- phemism you care to use, the hard reality experienced by many was job loss and wrenching change. Now, many organiza- tions are smaller, with fewer people doing more and feeling much less secure. New technology, rather than being our 2 Cary Cooper saviour, has added the burden of information overload, as well as accelerating the pace of work at a greater speed of response (e.g. e-mails). And, at the same time, as more and more com- panies adopt a global perspective, organizations and the individ- uals they employ are finding that success in the global arena requires fundamental changes in organizational structures as well as individual competencies. As Burke and Cooper (2003) suggest in their book Lending in Turbulent Times some of the dramatic changes affecting work and organizations include increased global competition, the impact of information technology, the re-engineering of business processes, smaller companies that employ fewer people, the shift from making a product to providing a service, and the increasing disappearance of the job as a fixed collection of tasks. These forces have produced wrenching changes in all industri- alized economies. Just as organizations are redesigning to be more flexible and adaptive, individuals are expected to be open to continual change and life-long learning. Workers will be expected to diag- nose their abilities, know where to get appropriate training in deficient skills, know how to network, be able to market them- selves to organizations professionally, and tolerate ambiguity and insecurity. As more organizations experiment with ‘outsourcing’, ‘market testing’, ‘interim management’, and the like, many more of us will be selling our services to organizations on a freelance or short-term contract basis. We are creating a corporate culture of blue-collar, white-collar, managerial, and professional
Recommended publications
  • Economic and Social Council Distr.: General 20 May 2009 English Original: English/French/Spanish
    United Nations E/CN.17/IPM/2009/INF/1/REV.1 Economic and Social Council Distr.: General 20 May 2009 English Original: English/French/Spanish Commission on Sustainable Development Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting 23-27 February 2009 List of delegations Liste des délégations Lista de las delegaciones Chairpersons: Ms. Gerda Verburg (Netherlands) Vice-Chairpersons: Mr. Kaire Munionganda Mbuende (Namibia) Mr. Javad Amin-Mansour (Iran, Islamic Republic of) Ms. Tania Valerie Raguž (Croatia) Ms. Ana Bianchi (Argentina) Rapporteur: Ms. Tania Valerie Raguž (Croatia) 09-34428 (E) 280509 *0934428* E/CN.17/IPM/2009/INF/1/REV.1 Members/Membres/Miembros Country Representative Alternates Advisers Pays Representant Suppleants Conseillers Pais Representante Suplentes Consejeros Antigua and Barbuda Mr. Conrod Hunte Ms. Janil Greenaway Argentina Sr. Jorge Argüello Sr. Diego Limeres Sra. Ana Bianchi Sr. Eduardo Porretti Sra. Romina Bocache Australia Mr. Andrew Goledzinowski Ms. Katy Lin Ms. Sally Weston Ms. Fleur Davies Bahrain Mr. Tawfeeq Ahmed Mr. Ahmed Al-Muharraqi Almansoor Bangladesh Mr. A. H. M. Rezaul Kabir Belgium M. Jan Grauls Mme Nadine Gouzee Mme Christine Detaille M. Remy Merckx Mme Griet Verbeke Mme Karoline Vanden Brande Mme Leida Rijnhout Brazil Ms. Maria Teresa Mesquita Mr. Paulo José Chiarelli Ms. Bianca Abreu Pessôa Vicente de Azevedo Ms. Elisa Breternitz Mr. José Roberto de Lima Mr. Marlon Arraes Canada Ms. Rachel McCormick Ms. Diane Cameron Mr. Philippe Charest Mr. Robert Patzer Ms. Colleen Hyslop Mr. Robert Turnock Ms. Carla Hogan Rufelds Ms. Laura Smallwood Ms. Rose Cheng Mr. Dorian Panchyson Mr. Randy Christensen Ms. Joanna Dafoe Cape Verde Mr. Antonio Pedro Monteiro Mr. Manuel Ney Cardoso Lima Chile Mr.
    [Show full text]
  • Employee Representation and Corporate Governance: a Missing Link
    EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATION AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: A MISSING LINK Sanford M. Jacobyt The publication of Freeman and Rogers' What Workers Want' is a major contribution to the debate over employee representation in America. The authors have answered the basic question of what workers and manag- ers want. Now we must reconsider how public policy can be designed to help these preferences be realized. Although Freeman and Rogers have on other occasions contributed ideas for closing the representation gap,2 the present study maintains a curious silence on solutions. Most of the recent policy proposals on employee representation at- tempt to tweak the National Labor Relations Act to permit greater experi- mentation with nonunion employee participation plans. For example, the so-called Dunlop Commission of the mid-1990s outlined the following four principal policy options, all of which focused on labor law: (1) to retain the law in its present form; (2) to revise section 8(a)(2) to permit employers to create employee involvement plans and even company unions, so long as they do not bargain collectively with the employer (the approach contained in the so-called TEAM Act); (3) to modify the TEAM approach to permit employers to establish employee involvement plans but require that they meet certain standards for employee selection, access to information, and protection against reprisals; and (4) to legally require the establishment of employee participation committees,3 as in the plan put forth in 1990 by Professor Paul Weiler to require every company above a certain size to es- tablish elected committees to address the firm's human resource policies t Professor of Management, Policy Studies and History, UCLA; A.B.
    [Show full text]
  • Foreign Rights Catalogue Spring 2014 Business · Job and Career
    Foreign Rights Catalogue Spring 2014 Business · Job and Career · Self Help · Politics and Current Affairs Backlist Autumn 2013 Oliver Janz Catharina Bruns 14 – The Great War Work Is Not a Job. Whether It’s Work Is Your Decision 2013. 415 pages, hardcover 2013. 224 pages, paperback, with illustrations by the author For the centenary of the First World War, historian Oliver Janz has written an up-to-date standard work and suggests Since most of life is spent working, a new set of central themes. it makes sense to ask yourself a In an age shaped by the experience of accelerated globa- question: Can I really identify with lization, the globe-spanning dimension of the First World my occupation? This book is based War must necessarily take center stage. As the »original on the fundamental desire to catastrophe of the 20th century« the Great War was not move away from the externally only the first total war, mobilizing all of the available societal imposed concept of »9 to 5« and forces and economic resources, but also the first global war to develop a work and lifestyle of in world history. your own—one that goes beyond Various historical approaches from economic, social and classical employment relationships everyday history to the history of mentalities and emotions and is suited to the changes in are all brought together in this book. today's workplace. »Work Is Not a Job« is an inspirational book »The work by Oliver Janz has the potential to become that provides food for thought on part of the core literature on this subject.« Neue Züricher Zeitung self realization.
    [Show full text]
  • 5 October 2016
    5 October 2016 CECE Internal Meetings: • 11.00 – 13.00 Executive Committee • 13.00 – 17.00 CECE Statistical Commission • 14.30 – 17.00 Steering Group • 17.00 – 17.30 General Assembly 19.30 – 22.00 Informal welcome dinner at the Andels Hotel (open to all participants) 6 October 2016 08.30 – 09.00 Registration & Welcome coffee Plenary Session: Drivers of Success in Central & Eastern Europe • Moderated by Sigrid de Vries, CECE Secretary General 09.00 – Keynote speeches • Bernd Holz, CECE President • Minister of Industry & Trade, Czech Republic 09.30 – Case studies • Martin Kreičí, Director of Investment Division of CzechInvest “Business opportunities in perspective” • Ladislav Rulf, Manager, Management Consulting, KPMG Prague Office “The investment climate in Central & Eastern European countried compared” • OEM case: Hakan IIhan, Director of Marketing & Dealer Development of LiuGong Dressta Machinery, Poland • OEM case: Tomas Kuta, Senior Vice President Global Sales of Volvo Construction Equipment • Customer case: Dino Leistenschneider, Executive Vice President Sourcing and Fleet Management of Ramirent 10.30 – Coffee Break 11.00 – Panel discussion • Introduction by Frank Schauff, CEO of the Association of European Businesses, Russia 12.15 – Closing keynote • Martin Knoetgen, President Europe, Middle East & Africa at Doosan 12.30 – 14.00 Walking Lunch Deep-dive Session: an Industry in Transformation • Moderated by Sandy Guthrie, editor of Construction Europe 14.00 – “Perspectives on the European Construction Equipment Industry” • Erik Sjödin,
    [Show full text]
  • JACK NASHER Überzeugt!
    JACK NASHER Überzeugt! Nasher_Ueberzeugt_CC18.indd 1 15.12.2020 11:02:21 Buch Mussten Sie schon mal einen wichtigen Vortrag halten? Wenn ja, haben Sie sich zuvor sicher nicht nur genau überlegt, was Sie sagen werden, sondern auch, in welchem Ton Sie es sagen, was Sie dazu anziehen und wie Sie dem Publikum begegnen … Jack Nasher Tatsächlich sollte man diese Sorgfalt im beruflichen Kontext bei jeder Art von Kommunikation walten lassen. Das Erfreuliche ist, dass Sie einen Großteil dessen, was andere über Sie denken, selbst steuern können. Überzeugt! Diese Chance sollten Sie nutzen! Zeigen Sie Ihre Kompetenz, betreiben Sie wirkungsvolle PR für sich selbst. Und zwar nicht nur bei einem Vor- trag oder beim Verfassen Ihres Lebenslaufs und dem anschließenden Be- Wie Sie Kompetenz zeigen werbungsgespräch – sondern immer. Denn wahrgenommene Kompetenz verleiht Ihnen die Macht, Ihre Mitmenschen zu überzeugen, sie zu be- und Menschen für sich gewinnen einflussen und zu führen. Autor Jack Nasher leitet das NASHER Verhandlungsinstitut, das Menschen in Verhandlungsfragen berät und trainiert. Seine Bücher wurden Bestseller und erschienen in zahlreichen Ländern, von den USA bis China. Außer- dem ist Jack Nasher Autor der jährlichen Forbes-Liste der »World Chan- ging Negotiations«. Internationale Publikationen wie das Wall Street Jour- nal, die Korea Times und die FAZ berichten regelmäßig über ihn. Nashers Oxford-Studium folgten Stationen bei der größten Wall-Street-Kanzlei Skadden und den Vereinten Nationen in New York. Er ist zurzeit Profes- sor an der Munich Business School und lehrt an der Stanford University. www.jacknasher.com Außerdem von Jack Nasher im Programm Deal! Du gibst mir, was ich will! Entlarvt! Wie Sie in jedem Gespräch an die ganze Wahrheit kommen Nasher_Ueberzeugt_CC18.indd 2 15.12.2020 11:02:21 Jack Nasher Überzeugt! Wie Sie Kompetenz zeigen und Menschen für sich gewinnen Nasher_Ueberzeugt_CC18.indd 3 15.12.2020 11:02:21 Alle Ratschläge in diesem Buch wurden vom Autor und vom Verlag sorgfältig erwogen und geprüft.
    [Show full text]
  • Open Mindsets: Participatory Leadership for Health
    FLAGSHIP REPORT 2016 Participatory Leadership for Health FLAGSHIP REPORT 2016 Participatory Leadership for Health WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Open mindsets: participatory leadership for health. 1.Delivery of Health Care. 2.Leadership. 3.Organizational Innovation. I.World Health Organization. II.Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. ISBN 978 92 4 151136 0 (NLM classification: W 84) © World Health Organization 2016 All rights reserved. Publications of the World Health Organization are available on the WHO website (http://www.who.int) or can be purchased from WHO Press, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland (tel.: +41 22 791 3264; fax: +41 22 791 4857; email: [email protected]). Requests for permission to reproduce or translate WHO publications –whether for sale or for non-commercial distribution– should be addressed to WHO Press through the WHO website (http://www.who.int/about/licensing/copyright_form/index.html). The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Dotted and dashed lines on maps represent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement. The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers’ products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by the World Health Organization in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. Errors and omissions excepted, the names of proprietary products are distinguished by initial capital letters.
    [Show full text]
  • Estta968194 04/19/2019 in the United States
    Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Electronic Filing System. http://estta.uspto.gov ESTTA Tracking number: ESTTA968194 Filing date: 04/19/2019 IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD Proceeding 91235560 Party Defendant Jackdaddy Inc. Correspondence KEVIN J KEENER Address KEENER & ASSOCIATES PC 161 N CLARK STREET SUITE 1600 CHICAGO, IL 60601 UNITED STATES [email protected] 312-523-2164 Submission Defendant's Notice of Reliance Filer's Name Kevin Keener Filer's email [email protected] Signature /kevinkeener/ Date 04/19/2019 Attachments Jackdaddy Notice of Reliance.pdf(3645869 bytes ) IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD In the matter of: Application No. 87/291,418 Mark: CADDY JACK ____________________________________ ) ) Target Brands, Inc. ) ) Opposer, ) ) v. ) Opposition No. 91235560 ) Jackdaddy, Inc. ) ) ) Applicant. ) ) ____________________________________) APPLICANT’S NOTICE OF RELIANCE Pursuant to 37 C.F.R §2.122(e), Applicant Jackdaddy Inc., hereby submits this notice of reliance. Applicant submits that the identified Exhibits, and copies of the same submitted are printed/electronic publications, available to the general public, or of general circulation or accessibility among members of the public or that segment of the public which is relevant under an issue in this proceeding and therefore constitutes competent evidence. Applicant hereby submits the following evidence, along with identifying the respective sources and identifying the relevance and issue to which each pertains: • Exhibit 1 o Free Wikipedia results for “Jack (given name)” o Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(given_name) o Accessed on 1/11/2018 o Relevant to show connotation of Applicant’s mark and Opposer’s mark • Exhibit 2 o Registration information for caddiejack.com o Available at https://www.whois.com/whois/caddiejack.com o Accessed on 1/12/2018 o Relevant to show intent of usage by Applicant.
    [Show full text]
  • Foreign Rights Catalogue Spring 2013 Business, Politics and Current
    Foreign Rights Catalogue Spring 2013 Business, Politics and Current Affairs Self Help Humanities Best of Backlist 30,000 GERMAN COPIES SOLD Ursula Nuber Thomas Kuban Reinhard K. Sprenger Who Am I without You? Blood Must Flow Radical Leadership Why Women Become Depressed and Undercover among Nazis How They Can Find Themselves again 2012. 296 pages, hardcover 2012. 288 pages, paperback with flaps 2012. 253 pages, hardcover Women succumb to depression at Putting his life at risk, undercover Reinhard K. Spenger, »Germany’s twice the rate of men. The reason journalist Kuban has compiled number one management author« is that they define themselves and a riveting documentary that (Handelsblatt) provides the first their well-being in terms of their describes the neo-Nazi scene and comprehensive description of the relationships with others. Psycho- its horrifying self-assurance. complex subject of leadership. logist and best-selling author Kuban filmed 50 concerts with The book contains numerous Ursula Nuber shows why even a hidden camera and documented concrete suggestions pertaining to strong and successful women countless other events. Disguised everyday leadership practice and become depressed. And above all, as a right-wing extremist comrade, the five core topics: organizing how they either find their way he won the trust of important collaboration, settling conflicts, back to themselves or don’t allow figures on the scene, allowing him ensuring future viability, lowering depression to develop in the first to expose a network that reaches transaction costs, and leading place. into mainstream society. employees. Rights sold to: Korea, Poland campus Business, Politics & Current Affairs 2 3 • The winners’ mindset • You want it, you get it • For readers of Thorsten Havener Jack Nasher Deal! You Give Me What I Want 2013.
    [Show full text]
  • 42Nd Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy “Liabilities of Foreignness Versus the Value of Diversity”
    Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy “Liabilities of Foreignness versus the Value of Diversity” WU Vienna Vienna, Austria December 2-4, 2016 Editors Jonas Puck, Thomas Lindner, and Moritz Putzhammer ISBN 978-3-200-05028-0 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the European International Business Academy “Liabilities of Foreignness versus the Value of Diversity” Vienna, Austria December 2-4, 2016 ISBN: 978-3-200-05028-0 For more information, please contact: Jonas Puck Welthandelsplatz 1 1020 Wien, Austria EIBA 2016 Conference Proceedings Page 2 Table of Contents Table of Contents ....................................................................................................................... 3 EIBA 2016 Program Acknowledgements .................................................................................... 4 Program Committee and Conference Track Chairs .................................................................... 5 Program Overview ...................................................................................................................... 6 Sponsors ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Program Details and Tracks ........................................................................................................ 8 Abstracts of Accepted Contributions ....................................................................................... 13 Index of Authors
    [Show full text]
  • Outsourcing: Current and Future Trends
    Outsourcing: Current and Future Trends Andrew Kakabadse I Nada Kakabadse Executive Summary Highlighted are two reasons for outsourcing: cost and focus on the core competencies of the enterprise. Surveying U.S., U.K., and Continental Europe companies concerning current and future outsourcing trends positions outsourcing as a prominent strategic lever. Achieving “best-of-breed” practice is predicted to occur through new technology. Also, human resources and IT outsourcing will become more prominent. The results strongly indicate that partnership alliances and performance-driven contracts will become as important as the current preferred, trusted supplier relationship. Keiretsu- like, horizontal linkages will be required to realize scale and competency advantages from future outsourcing arrangements. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. INTRODUCTION utsourcing, dating back to the Romans, notably with the sourcing out of tax col- lection, regained popularity in eighteenth-century England and has been in con- tinuous use in a variety of forms ever since (Duffy, 2001). Outsourcing gained greater impetus in the 1970s, when large and diverse corporations were consid- ered to be underperforming, a trend that became even more pronounced in the early 1980s with the onset of global recession (Kakabadse & Kakabadse, 2000). In fact, the 1980s witnessed a change of direction in business strategy thinking— Onamely, focusing on fewer activities (Peters & Waterman, 1982). As a result, cor- porate managers reevaluated the concept that the organization needed to be vertically integrated and self-sufficient (Mullin, 1996). Thus, corporations divest- ed “peripheral or supplementary” businesses in order to focus upon their “core” business and, in turn, become “de-integrated” by increasingly outsourcing their requirements for components and business services (Grant, 1995, p.
    [Show full text]
  • L-G-0002453330-0024945831.Pdf
    How to Make Boards Work This page is intentionally left blank How to Make Boards Work An International Overview Edited by Andrew Kakabadse Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK and Lutgart Van den Berghe University of Ghent, Belgium Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Andrew Kakabadse and Lutgart Van den Berghe 2013 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2006 978-1-137-27569-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries ISBN 978-1-349-44633-9 ISBN 978-1-137-27570-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137275707 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.
    [Show full text]
  • How Evolution, Stories, and Irrationality
    † Designated as an Exemplary Final Project for 2020-21 HOW EVOLUTION, STORIES, AND IRRATIONALITY INFLUENCE DECISION MAKING IN FINANCIAL MARKETS: ANALYZING WHETHER WE CAN LEVERAGE OUR INNATE TRAITS AND HEURISTICS TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES Joseph E. McCarthy Faculty Advisor: Edward Tower Department of Economics December 2020 This project was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program in the Graduate School of Duke University. Copyright by Joseph Edward McCarthy 2020 ii Contents Abstract iv Acknowledgements v Chapter One: Introduction 1 Reconciling Rational Expectations and Behavioral Economics 1 Appropriate Level of Granularity 2 Adaptive Markets Hypothesis 4 Environmental, Psychological, and Methodological Influences on Prediction 7 Behavioral Approaches to Develop Better Outcomes in Financial Markets 10 Chapter Two: Human Evolutionary Development 13 Evolution and Natural Selection 13 Imagination and Language 16 Cooperation 21 Cultural Evolution, Behavioral Development, and Financial Markets 27 Chapter Three: Stories 32 Background on the Evolution of Stories 32 Stories, Marketing, and Propaganda 37 Narrative Economics 46 Chapter Four: Rationality, Irrationality, and Decision Making 58 Rational or Irrational? 58 Emotion and the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex 63 Biases and Heuristics 66 Overconfidence 73 Chapter Five: BDT and JDM Techniques to Improve Processes and Outcomes in the Markets 80 Can You Beat The Market? 80 Decision Making Strategies 83 "Superforecasters" 96 Team Development and Strategic Execution 103 "Select Crowds" vs "Good Judgment Project" 112 Chapter Six: Conclusion 116 References 119 iii Abstract One of the most commonly asked questions in investing is whether or not it is possible to achieve excess returns in the financial markets.
    [Show full text]