Research

Should hospitals be run by doctors? – New York Times

Are the best hospitals run by medical doctors or business managers? The conventional wisdom is that […]

Physician-Leaders and Hospital Performance: Is There an Association? – Social Science & Medicine

Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital […]

Why Do Leaders Matter? A Study of Expert Knowledge in a Superstar Setting – Economic Behaviour & Organization

This paper provides evidence of the importance of what might be termed „expert leaders‟. Although it […]

How much core business knowledge should our leaders have? One of the unanswered questions in business – L’Impresa

Hospitals healthier when run by doctors, which rarely occurs

It doesn’t take a bean-counter to run a hospital. In fact, the better run a hospital […]

Substitution and Complementarity Between Managers and Subordinates: Evidence from British Football – Australasian Psychiatry

We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994–2007 period to study substitution […]

Training university administrators: should management schools do it?

Some might argue that leadership and management are generic topics and that managing a university is […]

Panel games – Times Higher Education

Much of the Ivy League eschews interviews when filling posts, says Amanda Goodall, and UK universities […]

Captains of the academic enterprise – Times Higher Education

If an organisation is playing at the highest level,” says Amanda Goodall, “it needs to be […]

UK: Top scholars should lead research universities – University World News

Research universities should be led by brilliant scholars and not merelytalented managers, says Warwick University fellow […]