This article explains why leadership-as-practice development (LAPD) is a preferred leadership development approach in the contemporary digital era. Rather than dwelling on generic leader competencies that may not apply to the setting, learning is brought into “lived” (not simulated)...

The high levels of corruption, unemployment and abysmal development reflect a situation of poor macroeconomic management in Nigeria. Sound macroeconomic policies and management contribute in many ways to high quality growth that has positive correlation with poverty reduction. Increased and more...

Education corruption displays ample evidence that warrants inefficiencies and absenteeism among teachers. Teachers are the transmitters of knowledge who help to ensure that children learn, they are role models and in most rural communities they are the most educated and respected personages....

This research explores evidence of corporate capabilities for conducting acquisition and alliance deals in young firms. We hypothesize that investors conjecture about the future based on information about a firm's capabilities. Each successive deal carries intrinsic value, creates experience,...

Scientific work on organizational learning is flourishing yet several researchers have pointed to the importance of clarifying the core features of absorptive capacity as well as its relationships and the underlying mechanisms that link it to other variables of interest. In the present study, we...

The article presents some basic concepts related to service management, highlighting central characteristics described in three temporary dimensions: past, present and future. The research includes an incursion into classical theories, analyzing present trends and the ability to see them both as...

Recently, interest in youth entrepreneurship has been fuelled due to high levels of unemployment amongst young people and as a way to foster employment opportunities or to address social exclusion. Youth entrepreneurship has gained more importance in recent years in many countries, with...

The steadily growing disappointment of most peoples of the world today with the types of democratic governance and the frustration with the perceived general inefficiency of national democratic arrangements to solve the problems of weak governance has in recent years brought the matter of...