Journal of Management Development: Volume 27 Issue 10

Assessing leadership in a Chinese company: a case study

Vincent A. Conte, Daniel Novello

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the key problems encountered when Western‐trained consultants evaluate leaders in China using a toolkit and consulting process derived…

Product development and innovation for developing countries: Potential and challenges

Mahesh Chandra, James P. Neelankavil

Between the lack of incentives for larger international companies and the lack of resources of the local companies the majority of the people in less developed countries never…

The real work of the leader: a focus on the human side of the equation

Joseph P. Cangemi, Bill Burga, Harold Lazarus, Richard L. Miller, Jaime Fitzgerald

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…

Innovation in research and development: tool of strategic growth

Yair Holtzman

To describe research and development (R&D) as a tool of strategic growth. The world's top performing companies share a common characteristic: their superior ability to develop and…

Subjective well‐being in rich and poor countries

Mamdouh Farid, Harold Lazarus

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…

The business strategy/corporate social responsibility “mash‐up”

Tom McManus

The purpose of this paper is to explore the “mash‐up” of business strategy and corporate social responsibility (CSR). In popular music, a mash‐up is a file of digitally combined…

Role of transparency in managing outcome successes: Causes and end use/least cost as decision guides

Russell Jaffe, Robert A. Nash, Richard Ash, Norm Schwartz, Robert Corish, Tammy Born, James P. Carter, Harold Lazarus

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…

Guest editorial

Tom McManus, Yair Holtzman, Harold Lazarus

Note from the publisher

Vicky Williams

Outstanding Paper Award

Howard Thomas