Lake Parc Place is an innovative mixed-income housing project administered by the Chicago Housing Authority. The central component of the project is the fifty-fifty composition of low-income and working-class residents. This paper examines the success of the program in terms of the recruitment...

Increasing numbers of women may be climbing the corporate ladder, but when it comes to sending managers on overseas assignments, women are staying home. Is it that women are not interested in international careers, that for some reason companies are reluctant to send women abroad, or that women...

During the past two decades, more and more organizations have been going global, and, as a result, more and more employees are being sent on international assignments. For the most part, though, the percentage of females being sent on these assignments is much lower than the percentage of males....

After working abroad for extended periods, managers returning to their parent companies and communities are more likely to resign and seek outside employment than executives with comparable experience. Based on a sample of 174 repatriates and 92 spouses with five U.S. multinationals, our...

An overall goal of improving global competitiveness is the imperative under which managers strategically guide their organizations today. Any process or function that enables organizations to gain a competitive advantage on a global scale is therefore considered valuable to those at the helm....

Small firms are reliant upon high street banks for the vast majority of their external borrowing. However, despite the dramatic increase in numbers of small firms over the 1980s, and the subsequent rise in bank lending to this sector, the relationship has been far from ideal. This paper...

We investigate the determinants of the number of outside directorships held by chief executive officers (CEOs) of small, unquoted companies. CEOs of growth-oriented firm's hold more outside directorships, as do CEOs of more complex firms. This reflects the need to acquire external resources and...