Citation
Carraher, S.M. (2013), "Strategy, leadership, emotional intelligence, and information", Journal of Technology Management in China, Vol. 8 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/JTMC-07-2013-0029
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Strategy, leadership, emotional intelligence, and information
Article Type: Editorial From: Journal of Technology Management in China, Volume 8, Issue 2
Welcome to Issue 2 of Volume 8 of the Journal of Technology Management in China. Articles from the journal have now been cited 742 times according to Publish or Perish, and the journal has an h index of 14 and a g of 20 so articles have been cited 69 times since the last issue of the journal and our g has increased by 1. We have four exciting articles in this issue. We begin with “Technology strategy and sustainability of business: empirical experiences from Chinese cases by Richard Li-Hua and Lucy Lu both of the UK. In this paper they tie together the strategic issues in the implementation of business sustainability and the contribution that the enactment of technology strategy has to offer. Due to the credit crunch and the collapse of banking, economic giants in Wall Street have indicated that the world economy has come into a recession. Because of this, the idea of business sustainability is attracting more attention. In light of these issues, this paper sets out to review the literature of technology strategy, competitive advantage and sustainability of international business, in particular, the contribution that the enactment of technology strategy can make toward the effective implementation of business sustainability in the post recession. It examines what kind of role technology strategy plays in Chinese business and how business sustainability could be leveraged through the implementation of appropriate technology strategy. They have attempted to address various crucial issues in the establishment of a proper technology strategy for the sustainability of the business in the global market place based upon case study of five vanguard Chinese companies.
In “The characteristics and historical development path of the globalizing Chinese automobile industry Qiang Ding of the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics and Michèle E.M. Akoorie of the University of Waikato, analyze the historical development and characteristics of the globalizing Chinese automobile industry. They use data triangulation techniques based on archival research and published reports of statistical agencies both at central government and single industry level in order to create a case study of Chinas automobile industry.
In “Leader effectiveness in emerging markets: an empirical study of the managers in India Ajay K. Jain of Aarhus University, Shalini Srivastava of the Jaipuria Institute of Management, and Sherry E. Sullivan of Bowling Green State University, respond to calls for the greater study of emotional intelligence (EI) and leader effectiveness as well as the potential role of EI as a moderating variable in non-Western countries. They surveyed 352 managers in India in order to examine the relationship between EI and Tolerance of Ambiguity (TOA), respectively, and leader effectiveness as well as the potential moderating effects of EI on the relationship between TOA and leader effectiveness. They found that both EI and TOA were significantly related to leader effectiveness. Additionally, EI significantly and positively moderated the relationship between TOA and leader effectiveness. They hypothesized how the relationships might differ in China.
In “Job satisfaction of the modern information-system-using nurse in Lebanon Bassem E. Maamari of the Lebanese American University and Johnny C. Chaanine, of Grenoble Écolede Management investigate the impact of healthcare information system usage on the job satisfaction of nurses in Lebanon. They incorporate the role of training and user participation as factors leading to higher satisfaction and to present a model that is successful in Lebanon, to be examined in the Chinese setting. They suggest that the job satisfaction of nurses is affected by the level of information system use at work. They highlight the roles of training and user participation in the decision-making process to implement the system as moderating factors. The study examines the current situation in Lebanon and raises the question about the potential imitation of the Lebanese model in China.
I trust that you will find these articles to be interesting and that they will provide ideas for future research. Please continue submitting articles and citing the articles that are published.
Shawn M. Carraher