Lynda L. Moore

• Professor at Simmons University

This CGO Insight intends to be useful for diversity and gender leadership scholars and diversity and inclusion practitioners, particularly those who design and implement gender diversity programs. We aim to bring visibility to and generate scholarly interest in an under-researched topic within the field of gender and diversity: the perspectives of...

white professional women to take an active role in helping to remove barriers and clear the path for all professional women, especially women of color. By first pointing out the roots of "Whitewashing," and the false assumptions created and perpetuated by it, the authors explain how it represents a systemic dilemma, which can only be addressed thro...

Globalization, changing workforce demographics, and contemporary social and economic agendas have driven business schools to address diversity. However, gender and diversity education is not yet integrated into mainstream management education and we maintain that gender diversity, as part of management education, must be pulled to the top of the bu...

In this chapter we examine the enduring case for women’s leadership programmes and how they have evolved over the past 35 years. We examine the MBA curriculum and executive education at two business schools, Cranfield School of Management, in the UK and Simmons School of Management in the USA, the only all female business school in the US. We concl...

Recently, there has been an increased interest in the family business organization. Traditionally, the ideal typical organizational model was one where the management, governance, and ownership entities are kept separate. This principal agent model has been a subject of public debate in the wake of several corporate scandals. In the family business...

This research paper examines how the globalisation of the apparel industry has led to the development of a highly fragmented approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR), and identifies whether the drivers of a given apparel firm's CSR programme affect the stated firm's approach to the financial management of CSR and the resulting financial ou...

While there is a growing body of research on global studies of management and leadership, more recently scholars have expressed concern about the underlying cultural bias of social science models and the resulting leadership research. Most of the management and leadership knowledge to date is a product of North American and Western European scholar...

Using GLOBE classification and findings, this paper compares the family characteristics and work cultures of family businesses in Anglo, Germanic, and Nordic cultures. Results indicate differing patterns in terms of the involvement of the family in the family business and other key organizational dimensions. While all three regions share their weak...

This paper examines the impact of culture on family businesses in two regions of Africa: sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle Eastern region. Nine cross-culturally comparable “etic” dimensions are used to assess characteristics of family firms in both regions, based on the Culturally-sensitive Assessment System and Education (CASE) project. Overall, t...

This paper compares the family characteristics and work cultures of family businesses in Anglo, Southern Asia, and Confucian Asia cultures. Using the GLO BE classification and findings, the Anglo cluster of nations is distinguished by its strong performance orientation but weak family orientation. The Confucian Asian cluster is characterized by a s...

This case is about Kija Kim, a Korean born founder and CEO of Harvard Design and Mapping Inc. (HDM). Founded in 1988, HDM is a cutting-edge GIS firm with $5 million in revenue and 35 employees in their Cambridge, MA and Washington D.C. offices. Through Kija Kim's leadership, HDM has become a significant niche player in homeland security and disaste...

This article reports the results of an empirical study of salary equity for Women in Development of Greater Boston. The study objectives were to examine whether a glass ceiling exists for women in development in the New England area and develop a historical review of equity progress as compared to previous studies. Issues specific to women in the d...

This paper examines the relevance for the emerging markets of the construct of family business, in terms of three parameters – pre-dominance of the family in business, engagement of the family dominantly in the business, and identification of the family with the business. The literature proposes these parameters to be the distinctive measures of fa...

When we take the lens of race, ethnicity, gender, and class to the collected academic work on women business owners, what does it reveal? What do we really know? Are there differing definitions of success across segments of the women businessowner demographics? Do the challenges faced by African American women entrepreneurs differ from those confro...

“This is the hand that God dealt me and I am going to play it” Darlene Jeter, 1991. Darlene Jeter, co-founder of Jet-A-Way Inc., a recycling and waste disposal company, became CEO in 1991 upon the death of her husband, Eddie Jeter. Despite a recent loss of almost 50% in their company’s revenue, Jeter decided to keep the cards she was dealt, playing...

Proposes that women will not make significant advances in American businesses unless the focus shifts from a preoccupation on gender awareness to one of multicultural awareness. Discusses the whitewash dilemma and dominant assumptions about women in management to help explain the current management development paradigm that fails to recognize diver...

Assumptions about and between white women and women of color are rarely discussed. In view of this, several critical false assumptions are examined relative to communication and understanding. Also discussed are what individuals and organizations can do.