Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the paradox that represents a shortage of women in management and … senior leadership positions around the world, while research has consistently shown that having women in positions of … of four key streams of cross-cultural research on gender – women in international management, anthropology and gender …

from a review of the management and psychology literatures, exhaustive analysis of a large database (Sevy et al. , 1985 … for this study come from mid- to large-size organizations in 22 countries around the world. The organizations represented … sought out management consulting services from a large, highly respected private-sector consultancy. As such, these findings …

transition, the paper will focus upon the entry of American fashion design houses into central London. The expansion activities …

is changed from American to European. Findings The study reports that the volatility smirk of European style options …, unlike American style options, predict the underlying cross-sectional equity returns. Firms with steepest volatility smirk … underperform firms with flatter volatility smirks, by an average of 3.28 and 4.01 per cent annually for American and European …

-year period and as part of the wider strategy to implement account management principles within the local sales teams across China …/author) engaged senior members of the sales team through a series of workshops. Design/methodology/approach Despite the top management …