Purpose: Some scholars have claimed that CEOs make decisions, while boards of directors control these decisions by applying the concepts of decision management and decision control. These concepts were suggested more than 30 years ago and are still applied in corporate governance research. They...

Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate the efforts of Hay Youssef and Tang (2019) to reaffirm the importance of managerial discretion is unsuccessful. Design/methodology/approach: Theoretical frameworks from traditional and recent literature on the concept of managerial discretion are related...

Data provided by 7380 middle managers from 60 nations are used to determine whether demographic variables are correlated with managers’ reliance on vertical sources of guidance in different nations and whether these correlations differ depending on national culture characteristics. Significant...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to question the usefulness of comparisons between theories on servant leadership and transformational leadership. Design/methodology/approach: A review of scholarly works on these two theories is presented from the original works of Greenleaf, Burns and...