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The Emotional Competency Inventory (ECI) framework of Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis has gained significant impact in business leadership and management development. This paper considers the composition of the various version...
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The Emotional Competency Inventory (ECI) framework of Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis has gained significant impact in business leadership and management development. This paper considers the composition of the various versions of the ECI and its successor the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory to determine the nature of any appeal to ethics or moral competence within these frameworks. A series of concerns regarding the ethical limitations of the frameworks are presented with arguments supported by the relevant literature across the Emotional Intelligence (EI), competency theory and ethics fields. Based on a review of the ECI competencies in terms of their definitional constructs, it appears possible for an unethical manager or leader to demonstrate EI competence. Several cases involving high-profile business leaders, who were once lauded but later found to have acted unethically, are analysed. The authors consider the capacity of unethical leaders and managers to fulfil EI competence an issue of concern. The inclusion of an ethical management cluster and a number of competencies based on virtue ethics is proposed to meet this concern. Such an inclusion would address the critical issue of the purpose to which an EI competence is applied. Argument supporting the value of a virtue ethics approach as opposed to utilitarian or duty-based ethics approaches is also presented. Finally, a proposed exemplar of an ethically informed ECI framework is included for consideration.
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between transactional leadership and willing organizational commitment in two significantly different organizations (one from the healthcare sector and one from manufacturing).
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Virtual worlds have become an arena for user-generated innovation enabling a new wave of entrepreneurs to extract real world value from virtual property. Interestingly, virtual world property and revenue generation are understudie...
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Virtual worlds have become an arena for user-generated innovation enabling a new wave of entrepreneurs to extract real world value from virtual property. Interestingly, virtual world property and revenue generation are understudied and the concept of ownership in the metaverse is distinct and more complex than in the real world. In this article, virtual user innovation and ownership are conceptualized in two layers: (1) the content, and (2) the virtual platform. In-depth case studies of virtual user innovators are used to understand the role of ownership ambiguity in relation to success in a virtual environment. The data consists of transcripts from courts (1279 pages), blogs, interviews and expert commentary regarding six virtual user innovators. The findings reveal that the separation of content and platform ownership and their inherent interdependencies are a source of ownership tensions posing significant challenges to entrepreneurs. Moreover, the virtual world business model favors the platform's ownership rights while undermining other kinds of competing ownership interests. The current structures around ownership rights and control seem detrimental for successful business creation, profitable technology development and long-term user innovation success. The implications for theory and the practical implications for virtual entrepreneurs are discussed.
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When the chairperson and chief executive officer experience long co-tenure working together building knowledge and understanding, strategizing, and developing company-specific resources there can be significant organization perfor...
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When the chairperson and chief executive officer experience long co-tenure working together building knowledge and understanding, strategizing, and developing company-specific resources there can be significant organization performance gains. However the broader board context, especially the insider ratio - the number of executive directors as a proportion of the total number of directors - provides clues as to whether an organization is in a less productive configuration. In this study data from 102 Australian Stock Exchange listed companies is gathered on corporate governance configurations and organization performance. Australia is an interesting setting because the chairperson and chief executive officer roles are generally separated, in contrast to the United States. Results show that organizations with long co-tenure benefit from having a lower insider ratio. Implications are discussed including how the chairperson and chief executive officer working with a large number of inside directors can become "too comfortable in the saddle" negatively impacting performance. Crown Copyright (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Purpose - Producers and consumers - who represent opposing sides of the market - have different frames of reference, which may result in differences in classification of the same products. The authors aim to demonstrate that "clas...
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Purpose - Producers and consumers - who represent opposing sides of the market - have different frames of reference, which may result in differences in classification of the same products. The authors aim to demonstrate that "classification gaps" have a negative effect on the performance of products and that these effects play a role in different stages of consumers' decision process.
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Australia's electricity market is rapidly adding renewable energy generation. Utility-scale batteries could have a major role in facilitating these transitions; however, their deployment is still largely state-subsidized. We summa...
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Australia's electricity market is rapidly adding renewable energy generation. Utility-scale batteries could have a major role in facilitating these transitions; however, their deployment is still largely state-subsidized. We summarize the current and future roles for batteries from a legal-economic perspective in the context of Australia's electricity market framework. We find that the future of batteries in Australia is not only a function of the largescale deployment of renewables, their cost development and the comparative future cost of competing gas turbines but also of national electricity market and state policy reforms focusing on reliability.
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As independent directors have formed an integral part of the Chinese corporate governance model for more than a decade, it is now timely and important to examine their performance of their monitoring functions. By studying the adm...
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As independent directors have formed an integral part of the Chinese corporate governance model for more than a decade, it is now timely and important to examine their performance of their monitoring functions. By studying the administrative sanctions imposed on independent directors by the CSRC, this article can offer several important empirical findings. Based on these discoveries, it analyses the general fiduciary duties and specific monitoring functions of independent directors from comparative perspectives. It also explores the 'independence' of independent directors and examines their responsibilities in light of their reliance on professional third-party reports. The article argues that, similar to their Western counterparts, independent directors in China are facing intrinsic dilemmas in the process of performing their monitoring functions.
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The ubiquity of the term CSR threatens its carrying any distinctive meaning. Despite its long history no consensus has been developed among the industry participants, academics or other interested parties. After a careful review o...
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The ubiquity of the term CSR threatens its carrying any distinctive meaning. Despite its long history no consensus has been developed among the industry participants, academics or other interested parties. After a careful review of the complications and complexities of the CSR debate and distinct disciplinary definitions, the article turns to approach the problem of definition using the philosophy of science. It applies a scientific definitional approach of genus, differentia and species to arrive at a definition of CSR as international private business self-regulation. The article provides an overview of the implications of this definition on CSR as a field of study, a management practice and an approach to improving the dialogue concerning the social contribution of business.
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In the Schumpeterian conception, innovation is the "perennial gale of creative destruction" (Schumpeter 1976 [1942], p. 84). This evolutionary process consists of two entangled but distinct forces; the creation phase and the destr...
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In the Schumpeterian conception, innovation is the "perennial gale of creative destruction" (Schumpeter 1976 [1942], p. 84). This evolutionary process consists of two entangled but distinct forces; the creation phase and the destruction phase. This insight has been applied to non-market production. However, studies in public sector innovation are almost exclusively focused on the creation phase. This paper presents a new way of identifying mechanisms for destruction in the public sector context by analyzing the regulatory framework governing service delivery. The study presents an analysis of the regulations governing school closure in Australia, which is supplemented with an historical case study. The study finds that Ministerial discretion is the sole mechanism of school closure. It is proposed that this method of analysis is capable of being applied to other public sector services. Overall, the implication from this analysis is that an understanding of regulatory constraints is fundamental to a Schumpeterian understanding of public sector innovation.
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