Purpose - This brief introductory editorial introduces the background and rationale to the special issue quot;IC: Becoming Criticalquot;. This is based on a selection of papers presented to the 1st Intellectual Capital (IC) Stream at the 4th International Critical Management Studies Conference...

The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...

Spanish Abstract: La industria maquiladora en la frontera norte entre Estados Unidos y México, específicamente en Baja California ha sido abordada desde diferentes perspectivas, ya sea desde el punto de vista de la generación de empleo, de las exportaciones, de la competitividad o desde el...

Berkshire Hathaway, among history's largest and most successful corporations, shuns middlemen; its chairman, the legendary investor Warren Buffett, excoriates financial intermediaries. The acquisitive conglomerate rarely borrows money, retains brokers, or hires consultants. Its governance is...

Can the teaching of leadership transform practice? What concepts and modalities are best suited to do so? This paper builds on Meyer and Land’s (2003) theory of threshold concepts to examine how students learn and experience leadership as a complex and multi-faceted practice. Threshold...

A large number of world's political leaders have at one time or other were baptised through the fires of militancy. Others, who opposed the militants have also appeared in the political battlements. Comparing the leadership strategies, tactics and styles employed by these leaders to conventional...

Governors’ responses to the severe threats to public health posed by COVID-19 have not been uniform. We are among the first to provide empirical analyses to document to what extent stay at home orders or shelter in place orders were issued differently based on political, business and...

We conduct a series of semi-structured interviews with controllers and chief accounting officers from large public and private companies—over half are Fortune 500—to identify the current issues faced by the controllership function. We map these issues into the Institute of Management...

The rate of entrepreneurial activity among women dropped sharply in 2007 while the activity rate among men and immigrants surged, according to a national assessment of entrepreneurial activity by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. According to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity,...