2011 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2012), "2011 Awards for Excellence", Management Decision, Vol. 50 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/md.2012.00150aaa.002

2011 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: 2011 Awards for Excellence From: Management Decision, Volume 50, Issue 1

The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Management Decision

"Conceptualisation of management and leadership''

Hester NienaberUniversity of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa

Purpose - The divide in the conceptualisation of the terms ``management'' and ``leadership'' is not clear. The purpose of this paper is to explore the concepts of management and leadership.Design/methodology/approach - The approach of the study followed a synthesis review and also applied content analysis, identifying the tasks constituting management and leadership respectively.Findings - The findings of the literature review demonstrated that the concepts of management and leadership are intertwined. The word ``management'' has French and Italian roots, while the word ``leadership'' has Greek and Latin roots. Essentially, though, these words are synonymous. All of the tasks fall within the boundaries of management, while leadership tasks overlap with management. Unlike management, leadership has no distinct task that falls exclusively within its boundary.Practical implications - Implications of the findings of the study include debate regarding how practising managers can know what is expected of them if the literature is unclear on the distinction between these concepts, and playing down the demonstrated need and relevance of management.Originality/value - This paper is original as no previous work on management and leadership has attempted to compare the content of these concepts.

Keywords Leadership, Management research

www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/00251741011043867

This article originally appeared in Volume 48 Number 5, 2010, pp. 661-75, Management Decision

The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award

"Improved capital budgeting decision making: evidence from Canada''

Karim BennounaGeoffrey G. MeredithTeresa Marchant

This article originally appeared in Volume 48 Number 2, 2010, Management Decision

"Business-level strategy and performance: the moderating effects of environment and structure''

M.K. NandakumarAbby GhobadianNicholas O'Regan

This article originally appeared in Volume 48 Number 6, 2010, Management Decision

"Competitive strategy, structure and firm performance: a comparison of the resource-based view and the contingency approach''

Eva M. Pertusa-OrtegaJosa F. Molina-AzoronEnrique Claver-Cortas

This article originally appeared in Volume 48 Number 8, 2010, Management Decision

Outstanding Reviewers

Luciano Barin CruzHEC Montreal, CanadaMr Colin JonesUniversity of Tasmania, Australia