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Informationen zum Autor M. Afzalur Rahim Klappentext Current Topics in Management is an annual scholarly journal and this volume is divided into four major sections. These contributions seek to integrate theory, research, and practice, the essential goal of Current Topics in Management. The first section contains two empirical studies on organizational conflict and a theoretical work that addresses the application of organizational justice theory to consumer behavior. The second section contains three empirical studies relating to the leadership language used by senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama during the last presidential election, building social capital through leader-member exchanges, and the big-five personality and financial performance of fund managers. Section three contains an essay on revising Phelan's model on entrepreneurship and a case study on a small business organization. The fourth section contains three contributions, two theoretical papers and an empirical study of the administration of state governments. Zusammenfassung Current Topics in Management is an annual scholarly journal and this volume is divided into four major sections: Managing Conflict and Justice; Leadership, Social Capital, and Personality; Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management; and Ethics, Learning, and Change Inhaltsverzeichnis Managing Diverse Situations In Organizations; I: Managing Conflict and Justice; The Moderating Role of Social Attitudes in the Relationship between Diversity and Conflict; Moderating Effects of Geographic Dispersion and Team Tenure on the Task–Affective Conflict Relationship; Fairness and Consumer Behavior: A WWJD (What Would Justice Do?) Analysis; II: Leadership, Social Capital, and Personality; Obama vs. Clinton: A Study Exploring the Impact of Leadership Language; Social Capital Via Leader–Member Exchanges: An Avenue to Human Capital?; Relationship between The Big-Five Personality and The Financial Performance of Fund Managers; III: Issues in Entrepreneurship and Small Business; Modifying Phelan’s Model: A Conceptual Framework Linking Entrepreneurs to International New Venture Competitiveness; Bsl Printing Company: A Case Study; IV: Ethics, Learning, and Change; Ethics, Rhetoric, and The Self as an Expanding Web of Conversations; Flexibility, Learning, and Control: Entry Mode Choice Under Uncertainty; The Politics–Administration Continuum in American State Governments: Administrative Accountability as a Positive-Sum Pattern...