The paper elaborates on managerial perception of regional business environment of small and medium-sized enterprises in southern Poland (i.e. two voivodeships: Malopolska and Slask). The paper is based on own empirical research, which was conducted in late-2004 year. The research was conducted...

1. Leadership and sustainable regional development / Markku Sotarauta, Lummina Horlings and Joyce Liddle -- 2. Leadership of place and the dynamics of knowledge / John Gibney -- 3. Sustaining collaborative leadership in city regions : an examination of local enterprise partnerships in England /...

This book shows, first of all, that leadership plays a crucial role in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path to something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable regional development. Second, it maintains that leadership is not a solo but a multi-agent and -level...

We formulate an empirical model of promotion with dynamic self-selection where the current promotion probability depends on the hierarchical level in the firm, individual human capital, unobserved (to the econometrician) individual specific attributes, time varying firm specific variables (firm...

This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...