present analysis, it is apparent that many firms lack leadership, leadership styles, managerial, computing and technology … of leadership in the local organisations surveyed in Rosebank. Many owner/managers, regarded as leaders, held …

study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how they exercise leadership and entrepreneurship in the family firm … assumptions about women's and men's approach to leadership, suggests there are some characteristic ways women leaders learn FCB …In an earlier study (Moores & Barrett 2002) we found successful CEOs had learned leadership of family controlled …

firms. A few small-scale studies, notably Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002), describe the varying roles that women … adopt, but without explaining why they adopt such roles. Our research aims to examine the career progression of women … and perhaps managing these paradoxes took them on a learning journey to leadership in which they progressively learnt …

). Because the sample we used for that study did not include many female CEOs, our present study focuses on women in leadership … understand the pathway to leadership in family firms that women travel. Based on interviews with an international sample of women … firms (e.g. Dumas, 1998; Sharma, 2004). Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002) describe the varying roles that women …

PurposeRetailing as a sector employs many women and serves a female dominated customer base. It also employs … proportionately more women in management positions than in other occupational sectors. However, at senior levels, the proportion of … women to men diminishes. This article examines the perceived facilitators and problems of senior retail managers’ career …

management and women’s careers. It reveals the factors that continue to be problematic for women’s careers and why in 2010 they … women’s continued under-representation in retail management positions is gained. The overall findings from the papers … indicated that the main reasons for women’s and men’s differential experience in the retail management hierarchy can be located …

It is a well documented fact that there are few women in top executive positions in business organizations. In this … research I examine the effect of having women in top executive positions on an organization’s human qualities (such as being … compelling evidence on the impact of women in top executive positions on an organization’s softer, human qualities, and on the …

methodologies from the history of technology, institutional history, and labor history, as well as gender analysis, this … public sector and the nation. Beginning with a labor situation in which women did the majority of computing work, and …