... competitiveness levels is used to empirically demonstrate the association between managerial discretion and country competitiveness. Findings The authors show that managerial discretion is a direct predictor of national competitiveness through its ability to provide CEOs with a wider array of actions...

...Pingying Zhang; Paul Fadil; Chris Baynard Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand dependency issues between the CEO and the board as well as the between the board and CEO through Emerson’s power dependency framework. Design/methodology/approach – A symbolic management...