Professional judgments, such as an auditor's assessment of an internal control system, require the exercise of discretion which is likely to reflect individual differences across auditors. Here significant effects are reported for dogmatism and tolerance of ambiguity in auditor's assessments of...

This study examines the relationship between managers' reliance on accounting based performance measures and their perceptions of role ambiguity. The sensitivity of this relationship to both job function (i.e. production versus non-production) and job structure is explored. The strong...

The contemporary leadership theories of Fiedler (LPC Contingency Theory), House (Path Goal, Vroom and Yetton (Decision Making) and Graen (Vertical Dyad Linkage) are commonly viewed as divergent, if not competing. The result is a fragmented leadership literature which contains little theoretical...

Student failures in individual MBA courses most frequently occur in those units with an emphasis on quantitative techniques. This has led some management schools to give, or consider giving, higher weight to GMAT(q) than GMAT(v) in selection decisions. This paper shows that GMAT(q) is a good...

Myths in organisations are often portrayed as evolving gradually, and perhaps decaying even more slowly, whether the myth seeks to establish internal standards or to provide cause and effect in a turbulent environment. A detailed case study of the start‐up phase in a graduate management school...

Building Agent-Based Models requires assumptions (as does building any model).The advantage of ABM is the assumptions can be realistic, rather than made in order to solve a calculus-based problem. But what does "realistic" mean? I shall outline the issues of verification of a model (is it...