Book Description

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 16th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance (ECMLG 2020) hosted by ACI and EM-Normandie Business School, Oxford, UK, UK on 26 - 27th October 2020. The Conference Chair Dr Paul Griffiths, EM-Normandie Business School, Metis Lab. Oxford, UK ECMLG is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 16th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The conference was due to be held at EM-Normandie Business School, Oxford, UK but due to the global Covid-19 pandemic it was moved online to be held as a virtual event. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. The opening keynote presentation is given by Aldwyn Cooper, Professor and Vice Chancellor Emeritus at Regent's University London, on the topic of Stairway to Heaven: An Alternative Approach to Education. The second day of the conference Keynote presentation is given by Dr Jayshina Punwasi MBChB (UCT), MBA (WBS), a Clinical Manager at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa on the topic of Befriending uncertainty: When life and death decisions are made everyday. With an initial submission 75 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 81 Academic research papers and 4 PhD research papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Danmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Qatar, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UK and USA.