Much of the work on stereotypes has focused on discrimination for women and minorities in the workplace. Stereotypes, however, can also exist among managers, potentially influencing their judgement when undertaking business deals with counterparts from other countries. Paul Burns, Andrew Myers...

Based on a survey of top managers and top teams of medium- to large-size companies in Europe, Andrew Kakabadse and Andrew Myers categorise four distinctly separate boardrooms styles of thinking, feeling, and behaving, which they term inspirational, elitist, consensual and directive. Clearly,...

It is now over 10 years since Malone et al. [Malone, T., Yates, J. and Benjamin, R. (1987) Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies. Communications of the ACM 30(6), 484-497] set out their hypothesis on electronic markets and electronic hierarchies, termed the electronic market...