This paper explores the challenges faced by developing countries and countries in transition in their attempt at reforming the inherited bureaucratic public service. The paper explores how the public sector in Croatia has managed to come this far after the turbulent years of political and...

Managerial skills are viewed as being of fundamental importance for improved managerial performance and effectiveness as the whole. Recent developments in the field point to the presence of three paramount and overlapping categories of managerial skills namely, task-, people- and self-related,...

Recently there has been a growing awareness in the Western world that to be effective senior managers need to acquire people‐related skills. In contrast, in developing countries management educators and trainers still seem to be preoccupied with traditional task‐related management training....

Traditionally, the effectiveness of the senior officials within the public sector has been disproportionately associated with task instead of people‐related skills. A study of 74 senior managers within Indian Railways, over three years, has revealed that managers, in order to become effective,...

The last few decades have been notable for the considerable attention which managers and their effectiveness have received. However, despite copious writing and concern for this illusive organizational phenomenon, mostly in the developed world, still a great deal of confusion and concern...

Purpose – Research on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has concluded a positive link between EO and firm performance and that relationship depends on several contingencies. The purpose of this paper is to derive insights from the absorptive capacity and contingency perspectives to introduce...