Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance : ECMLG 2012

These Proceedings represent research presented at the 8th European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance (ECMLG) hosted this year by The Neapolis University Pafos. The Programme Chair is Professor John Politis and the Conference Chair is Professor Elias Dinenis, both from the Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus.

The main purpose of the ECMLG Conference is for individuals working in the area of Management Leadership and Governance to come together to share knowledge with peers interested in the same area of study.

The range of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The topics covered by the papers illustrate the wide range of issues that fall into this important research area.

With an initial submission of 203 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 57 academic research papers, 12 PhD papers and 3 work in progress papers published in the Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States of America.

I hope that you have an enjoyable conference.

Professor John Politis,

Neapolis University Pafos, Cyprus

October 2012