Review of Top Management Development and Succession: An Exploratory Study.

1969 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 562-562
Author(s):  
H. J. LEAVITT
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Management Development ◽  
Top Management

An Exploratory Study on the Influencers of the Perceived Relevance of CIO's Activities and Skills

2017 ◽  
pp. 401-421
Author(s):  
João Varajão ◽  
António Trigo ◽  
Pedro Soto-Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Business Context ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Perceived Relevance

This paper presents the results of an exploratory study developed to identify the current CIO's main activities, to verify whether CIO's demographics and CIO's business context influence the perception of the importance of CIO activities and to identify CIO's main skills. The results show that managing projects, interacting with top management teams, optimizing business processes and making strategic decisions are main CIO's activities; and that the importance recognized to these activities is influenced by characteristics such as the CIO's age or the hierarchical structure of the organization. Regarding CIO's skills, understanding business processes and operations, and strategic thinking and planning, are the ones CIOs identified as being the most important.

scholarly journals Maturity in management accounting: Exploratory study in Portuguese SME

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul Manuel Da Silva Laureano ◽  
Maria João Cardoso Vieira Machado ◽  
Luís Miguel Da Silva Laureano
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
Inferential Statistics ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
New Model

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the level of maturity of management accounting in Portuguese industrial SMEs. Specifically, the study classifies firms using Kaplan’s Four-Stage model; and introduces a new model to classify them better. The research design is exploratory. The data were collected through interviews with those responsible for management accounting in 58 Portuguese industrial SMEs. The analysis used descriptive and inferential statistics and a cluster analysis was performed to classify firms according to their management accounting characteristics. The results showed that all the SMEs belong to stage 2 of Kaplan’s model and that it is possible to classify them in one of the four stages of the proposed new model. Moreover, the type of firm and the source of capital have no influence on the level of maturity, although larger firms tend to have greater maturity. The study offers evidence that there is a clear difference between management accounting knowledge and practices, which should motivate top management to focus on the continuous training of firm employees on the latest developments in management accounting methods.

Classifying Disfluencies in Preschool- and School-Age Spanish–English Bilinguals Who Do Not Stutter: An Exploratory Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-130
Author(s):  
Raúl Rojas ◽  
Farzan Irani
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Medium Effect ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Total Percentage ◽  
Narrative Production ◽  
Language Measures ◽  
Mean Length Of Utterance

Purpose This exploratory study examined the language skills and the type and frequency of disfluencies in the spoken narrative production of Spanish–English bilingual children who do not stutter. Method A cross-sectional sample of 29 bilingual students (16 boys and 13 girls) enrolled in grades prekindergarten through Grade 4 produced a total of 58 narrative retell language samples in English and Spanish. Key outcome measures in each language included the percentage of normal (%ND) and stuttering-like (%SLD) disfluencies, percentage of words in mazes (%MzWds), number of total words, number of different words, and mean length of utterance in words. Results Cross-linguistic, pairwise comparisons revealed significant differences with medium effect sizes for %ND and %MzWds (both lower for English) as well as for number of different words (lower for Spanish). On average, the total percentage of mazed words was higher than 10% in both languages, a pattern driven primarily by %ND; %SLDs were below 1% in both languages. Multiple linear regression models for %ND and %SLD in each language indicated that %MzWds was the primary predictor across languages beyond other language measures and demographic variables. Conclusions The findings extend the evidence base with regard to the frequency and type of disfluencies that can be expected in bilingual children who do not stutter in grades prekindergarten to Grade 4. The data indicate that %MzWds and %ND can similarly index the normal disfluencies of bilingual children during narrative production. The potential clinical implications of the findings from this study are discussed.

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