5th European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance

Proceedings of ECMLG 2009
The 5th European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance
held at the ATExcelixi Training and Conference Centre, Athens, Greece
5-6 November 2009

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Paper Title	Author(s)	Page No.
Preface		vii
Executive Committee and Programme Committee		v
Biographies of Conference Chairs, Programme Chair, Keynote Speaker and Mini-track Chairs		vi
Biographies of contributing authors		vii
Corporate Social Responsibility and Reformed Global Governance - Solutions to the Financial Crisis?	Laura Afrasine and Ana-Maria Petrache Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania	1
The Gender Perceptions of Salespersons by Buyers in South America	Richard Caldarola Troy University, Atlanta, USA	10
Sustaining Innovation in the Global Corporation: the Role of Managers, Entrepreneurs and Leaders	Philip Dover¹ and Udo Dierk^{2 1}Babson College, USA ²MEL-Institute, Germany	19
Corporate Governance Codes: are They Fresh or Trite?	Niculae Feleaga, Voicu Dragomir and Liliana Feleaga The Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, Romania	30
Exploring Organizational and Board Relationships on the Athens Stock Exchange	Ioannis Gkliatis¹, Dimitrios Georgakakis², Vasilios Th. Zoumbos², Wafi Al-Karaghouli¹, May Seitanidi¹ and Dimitrios Koufopoulos^{1 1}Brunel University, London, UK ²Gnosis Management Consultants, London, UK	38
Leader Fairness, Social Contract and Corporate Sustainability Performance	Henk Hadders¹ and Joost Miedema² ¹University of Groningen, The Netherlands ²Hanze University, Groningen, The Netherlands	46
Decision-Making Models and University Governance: Experience From Tunisian Public Higher Education Establishments	Islem Khefacha and Lotfi Belkacem Institute of Higher Studies in Management, Sousse, Tunisia	53
I Understand "You": Leadership Preferences Within the Different Generations	Stephanie Kodatt Northern State University/Our Lady of the Lake University, USA	61
EA and IT Governance − a Systemic Approach	Janne Korhonen, Kari Hiekkanen and Jouni Lähteenmäki Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland	66
Characteristics of Greek SMEs: Motivation for Business Ownership, Success Factors and Problems	Nicos Kourounakis¹ and Marios Katsioloudes² ¹Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece ²Greece	75
Gender Versus Women’s Management Competencies on the Example of Poland (a Research Results Survey)	Jolanta Kowal, Ewa Parka, Aleksandra Kwiatkowska and Krystyna Węgłowska-Rzepa University of Wroclaw, Poland	84
Power Concentration and Corporate Governance in Greece	Themistokles Lazarides Technological Institute of West Macedonia, Grevena, Greece	94
A Prescriptive Hybrid Model of Leadership: Complexity Leadership Theory and Authentic Leadership Theory	David Livingston and Jenna Lusin The George Washington University, USA	102
Developing Managers for Leading Public and Nonprofit Organizations	Patrick Montana and Francis Petit Fordham University, Graduate School of Business Administration, USA	110
How Critical is Leading Through Strategic Change?	Isaac Mostovicz¹, Nada Kakabadse² and Andrew Kakabadse^{3 1}Janus Thinking Ltd, Jerusalem, Israel ²The University of Northampton, UK ³Cranfield School of Management, UK	117
The Role of Governance in Leading Universities as the Thinking Base for Directing Societies	Fattah Nazem Islamic Azad University, Iran	125
The Application of an Organic Model for Strategic Management to FOSS Migration Within the South African Public Sector	Bangani Ngeleza, Peter Mkhize and Sam Lubbe University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa	133
Creation of a Curriculum map for Executives in the Not-For-Profit Arts Sector	Loretta O’Donnell University of New South Wales, Australia	141
Corporate Governance in Romania. A Fragile Start	Lavinia Olimid¹, and Mihaela Ionascu¹, Luminita Popescu² and Virgil Daniel Popescu^{2 1}Academia de Studii Economice Bucuresti, Romania ²Universitatea Craiova, Romania	151
The Role of Project Leadership in Achieving Effective Project Management	Vincent Ong, Diane Richardson, Yanqing Duan, Qile He and Brian Johnson University of Bedfordshire, UK	157
Leadership and Decision-Making Between Local Authority and Health Board During De-Institutionalisation	Stavros Parlalis Frederick University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus	164
Top Executive Compensation in Less Developed Capital Markets	Ivo Nuno Pereira and José Paulo Esperança ISCTE – Business School, Lisbon, Portugal	172
Leadership Capabilities in the Context of International Joint Ventures	Jelena Petrovic University of Wolverhampton Business School, Telford, UK	181
A Relationship Between Propensity to Innovation and Risk Capital. An Empirical Analysis	Paola Pisana, Marco Pironti and Bernardo Bertoldi Turin University, Italy	189
The Relationship of Mainstream Leadership Styles to Entrepreneurial Orientation	John Politis¹ and Denis Politis^{2 1}Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates ²Imperial College London, UK	202
Systems of Communication and Management in the Construction Industry	Samuel Quashie Dubai Men’s College, Higher Colleges of Technology United Arab Emirates	212
An Analysis of Leadership Development Gaps for Arts Executives in the Not-For-Profit Sector	Carol Royal University of New South Wales, Australia	222
Organisational Politics: the Shadow Side of Leadership	Geoff.Sheard¹, Andreas Kakabadse²and Nada Kakabadse^{3 1}Flakt Woods, Colchester, UK ²Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield, UK ³Northampton Business School, Northampton, UK	232
The Temporal Nature of Project Leadership: an Empirical Investigation	Gregory Skulmoski¹ and Francis Hartman^{2 1}Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates ²University of Calgary, Canada	242
Developing Strategic Learning Capabilities Under Entrepreneurial Leadership: Lessons From a Knowledge-Intensive, Growth-Oriented Small Firm	Nicholas Theodorakopoulos¹, Andrew Kakabadse², Nada Kakabadse³ and Catarina Figueira^{2 1}Leicester Business School, UK ²Cranfield University, UK ³Northampton University, UK	250
Training Gen Xers for Hotel Management. What works?	Robert Thompson Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada	259
Strategy as Discursive Construction in the Finnish Defence Forces	Jouni Westling, Marko Laaksonen and Aki Huhtinen National Defence University, Helsinki, Finland	267
Co-Creating Public Service Leadership Development in a new era of Collaboration	Rob Worrall National School of Government, UK Anglian Ruskin University, UK	274