4th European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance

Proceedings of ECMLG 2007
The 3rd European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance
held at the University of Winchester, UK
19-20 April 2007

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Paper Title	Author(s)	Page
Preface		iii
Biographies of Conference Chairs, Programme Chair, Keynote Speaker and Mini-track Chairs		v
Biographies of contributing authors		vi
Executive’s Personal Values Diversity: A Critical Interface Between the Board and the Senior Executive Team Affecting Personal Approaches to Business Value Creation	Paul Aitken and Scott Lichtenstein Henley Management College, Henley-on-Thames, UK	1-14
A Framework for Measuring the Impact of ERP Implementation at Greek SMEs	Maria Argyropoulou¹, George Ioannou¹ and Dimitrios Koufopoulos² ¹Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece ²Brunel Business School, London UK	15-24
Facilitating IS Capability – Towards a new Perspective on Governance	Peter Bednar and Christine Welch University of Portsmouth, UK	25-34
Selection of Causes According to Socio-Demographic Status in South Africa	Karen Corbishley and Roger Mason Durban University of Technology, South Africa	35-44
A Working Leadership Model for Rapid Response in Organizations Facing Complex, Dynamical, Discontinuous Change	Phillip Davidson University of Phoenix, AZ, USA	45-54
Emotional Intelligence and Change: A new Approach through Self Directed Learning and Incorporation of Imagined Interactions	Fragouli Evaggelia Hellenic Open University, Athens, Greece	55-62
Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace: An Approach to the Central Issues that Confront the Emotional Intelligence Paradigm	Fragouli Evaggelia¹ and Fragouli Kontos² ¹Hellenic Open University, Athens, Greece ²National University of Athens, Greece	63-70
The Impact of Offshoring on the Evolution of the IT Workforce Within the UK	Wallace Gray¹ and Thomas Connolly² ¹Student Loan Company Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland, UK ²University of Paisley, Scotland, UK	71-80
The Challenge in Corporate Social Responsibility: Getting Things Done	Paul Griffiths¹ and Luis Perera² ¹The Birchman Group, Santiago, Chile ²PricewaterhouseCoopers, Santiago, Chile	81-96
Business-IT Alignment: Translating Theory into Practice	Narcisa Jonsson Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden	97-106
Searching for Richness in African Traditional Leadership to Complement Business Leadership	Reinford Khumalo University of South Africa, South Africa	107-114
Strategic Planning in the Greek SME’s	Dimitrios Koufopoulos¹, Vasilios Zoumbos², Athanasios Oikonomou³ ¹Brunel Business School, UK ²Hellenic Pedagogical Institute, Athens, Greece ³TEI Epirus, Preveza, Greece	115-130
Compliance vs Alignment	Themistokles Lazarides Technological Institute of West Macedonia, Grevena, Greece	131-138
Wisdom and Leadership: Linking the Past, Present and Future	Bruce Lloyd London South Bank University, UK	139-146
Filling the Gap between IT Governance and IT Project Management	Jette Lundin Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Denmark	147-156
A Holistic Approach to Information Management: Theory and Practice	Sharm Manwani¹ and Mike Fishwick², Gerry Rankin² ¹Henley Management College, UK ²Yell, UK	157-166
Relationships between Management, Attitudes to Change and Perceptions of the External Environment: A Complexity Theory Approach	Roger Mason Durban University of Technology, South Africa and University of Wolverhampton, UK	167-176
Board Characteristics and Involvement in Strategic Decision Making – The Nigerian Perspective	Chris Ogbechie¹ and Dimitrios Koufopoulos² ¹Lagos Business School, Pan African University, Lagos, Nigeria ²Brunel Business School, UK	177-186
The Relationship between Self-Leadership Behavioural-Focused Strategies, Job Satisfaction and Quality Function Deployment	John Politis Dubai Men’s College, United Arab Emirates	187-196
Effective Decision Making – Dream or Reality?	Patrick Tyrrell Vale House, Ponsanooth, Cornwall, UK	197-204
IT Government and Facilities Management of Online Customers Expectations (With Respect to UK Customers Perceptions Towards Hotel Websites	Ezendu Ariwa and Sarah Olaya London Metropolitan University, UK	205-210
Leadership in the Ranks: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Middle and Line Managers under an Enterprise Systems Implementation Context	Linying Dong¹, Derrick Neufeld², Chris Higgins²and Ken Grant¹ ¹Ryerson University Toronto, Canada ²The University of Western Ontario, Canada	211-220