4th European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance

Proceedings of ECMLG 2008
The 4th European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance
held at the University of Reading, UK
27-28 November 2008

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Paper Title	Author(s)	Page
Preface		iv
Biographies of Conference Chairs, Programme Chair, Keynote Speaker and Mini-track Chairs		v
Biographies of contributing authors		vi
Innovation Leadership: The Development of Social Equality and Sustainability	Dean Bartlett London Metropolitan Business School, UK	1
Leadership Capabilities in Situation of External Uncertainty and Internal Instability	Gabriele Carbonara and Rosa Caiazza Parthenope University, Naples, Italy	9
What Coach Will Lead me to Change (and Change me to Lead)?	Claire Collins University of Warwick, Coventry, UK	19
Champions Change	John Deary Polytechnic, Bahrain	29
Corporate Governance between Classicism and Modernism	Niculae Feleagă Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania	39
KNOW-IT: Methodology and Software for Driving Innovation Processes in Small and Medium Enterprises	Piotr Gawrysiak Warsaw University of Technology, Poland	47
An Investigation Into the Relationship Between Leadership Style Applied and Job Satisfaction Levels of Virtual Team Members	Michael Charles Hitson Verizon Communications, Noblesville, USA	51
New Role of CIO as IT Leader and the Power Game	Arash Hooshmand Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden	61
Assessing the Managerial Styles in Pakistani Context	Adnan Iqbal Prince Sultan University, Riyadh Saudi Arabia	69
Corporate Governance and the Mission Statement in the Greek Health Sector	Angeliki Karamitrou, Ioannis Gkliatis, Dimitrios Koufopoulos and Maria Argyropoulou Brunel University, London, UK	79
Factors of Career Success, Work Motivation and Employees’ Life Quality	Jolanta Kowal and Ewa Pańka College of Management EDUKACJA Wrocław University, Poland	91
Agency Theory, Disclosure – Transparency: The Nemesis of Enterprise and Corporate Governance Systems	Themistokles Lazarides¹, Maria Argyropoulou², Evaggelos Drimpetas³ and Dimitrios Koufopoulos^{4 1}Technological Institute of West Macedonia, Grevena, Greece ²Brunel University London, UK ³Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece ⁴Brunel Business School, Brunel University London, UK	103
How Strategic Leaders’ Values Shape Value Creation	Scott Lichtenstein¹and Pat Dade^{2 1}Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK ²Cultural Dynamics Strategy and Marketing Ltd, London, UK	113
Team Flow – The Magic of Collaboration	Michael Makowski and Paul Breman Hogeschool Utrecht (University of Applied Sciences), The Netherlands	125
Follow me, I’m Right Behind you: Leading From a Complexity Viewpoint	Roger Mason University of Wolverhampton Business School, U.K and Durban University of Technology, South Africa	137
“The Dynamics of Organisational Change in Four Private-Sector Organisations in the East Midlands”	John Mendy University of Lincoln, UK	147
The Relationship Between Self-Management Leadership; Transformational and Transactional Leadership and Entrepreneurial Orientation	John Politis¹ and Nicholas Harkiolakis^{2 1}Dubai Men’s College, Dubai, United Arab Emirates ²Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece	157
The UK Code of Corporate Governance: Link Between Compliance and Firm Performance	Amama Shabbir¹and Carol Padgett^{2 1}Cranfield University, Bedford, UK ²University of Reading, UK	167
The Application of Work Study Methodologies: Towards the Development of an Efficiency Reporting System for a tap Manufacturing Organisation	Barnes Sookdeo University Of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa	177
Gender and Leadership Style in Greek Enterprises	Amalia Stafyla Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki and University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece	187
State-Inspired Private Investment: A Russian Success Story	Nadia Vanteeva Queen’s University of Belfast, UK	193
Resources, Activities and Competitive Advantage: Application to Outsourcing	Anton Wiesmann and Tatiana Zalan University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia	203
Underpricing and Board Structures: An Investigation of Malaysian IPOs	Puan Yatim Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia	213
Trust in Leadership: Towards a two-Factor Approach	Rachid Zeffane University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	221