While research using cross country data and analysis is rife with statistical problems, the best papers do provide valuable insight. This commentary illustrates how an excellent paper on democratization provides a useful “stability threshold” that helps to understand current events in the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors affecting male fashion leadership behaviour. The study examined the effect of fashion consciousness, fashion knowledge, mood enhancement, decision-making confidence and brand switching as the psychological factors. It also included...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how abstract space of the State – universally and specifically within the context of Middle Eastern cities – aims to homogenise the city and eliminate any anomaly that threatens its power structure. Design/methodology/approach Through a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate public transportation efficiency in larger cities. Global agreements to decrease environmental emissions in the future (CO 2 ), world‐wide decreasing reserves of oil, and growing population in larger cities is the main motivation to develop...

Purpose – This paper aims to present the results of a research on technological innovation process with the feature of industries in developing countries including Iran. Design/methodology/approach – Technological innovation characteristics were re‐conceptualised in the context of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on key features of Iranian managerial culture by discussing underlying social and organizational consequences. Design/methodology/approach – The paper has been organized in two major parts: conceptualization and discussion. First, the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of an Arabic language scale for measuring cross‐cultural adjustment in the Arab world, predominately the Middle East. It also comments on aspects of psychometric tools and their appropriateness for use in cross‐cultural...

Mainstream work on careers tends to be situated within an individualistic paradigm and against a North American/Western European context (although frequently unacknowledged). This paper throws new conceptual and contextual insights on the career concept through its exploration of careers in the...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore how women managers in the United Arab Emirates account for and construct their career development. Design/methodology/approach – A narrative approach is adopted for analyzing in‐depth interviews with 15 women managers in the United Arab...

Purpose – This paper takes an institutional approach to identify cognitive, normative, and regulatory factors affecting women’s business leadership in an under-studied traditional society. The purpose of this paper is to assess how such forces work to create a case of female leadership...