Purpose – During difficult economic times the media often highlight examples of failing or failed business organizations. In some cases the demise of corporations is examined in considerable detail often resulting in the following take‐home messages: these are the sins that have brought...

Purpose – No one would argue that leaders have a myriad of significant responsibilities. Using a premise the authors support – leadership is a people business – they aim to utilize their more than 100 years combined leadership to answer the question: what, then, is the real work of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss important predictors of subjective well‐being (SWB) that are relevant to explain well‐being as experienced by individuals in developing countries. The paper will use Egypt as example of an economy in transition to free market....

Purpose – Healthcare is both the largest (17 + percent) and the most rapidly growing (three plus times the consumer product index (measure of inflation) and half a percent of gross domestic product each year) segment of the US economy. The purpose of this paper is to focus on outcome...

Purpose – This paper aims to review the growing literature on the issues and variables which are impacting the determination of CEO pay for Fortune 500 and other large organizations. While many previous researchers have focused on agency theory, CEO power, market forces and board of directors...