These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 17th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance (ECMLG 2021) hosted by ACI and University of Malta, Valletta, Malta on 8-9 November 2021. The Conference Chair is Professor Frank Bezzina and the Proogram chair is Professor Vincent Cassar, both from University of Malta, Valletta, Malta. ECMLG is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 17th 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 University of Malta, Valletta, Malta 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 Eric Barends, MD at Center for Evidence-Based Management, on the topic of 10 years of Evidence Based Management: Challenges, Insights and Developments. The second day of the conference Keynote presentation is given by Prof Sandra C Buttigieg, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta, on the topic of Leading and Managing Health Systems during COVID-19 times. With an initial submission of 91 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 52 Academic research papers, 2 PhD research papers, 3 Masters Research papers, 1 Non-Academic Paper and 2 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and the United States.

hese Proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 13th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance, ECMLG 2017, hosted this year by the Cass Business School, City, University of London on 11-12 December 2017. The Conference Chair is Dr Martin Rich. The conference will be opened with a keynote address by Dr Helen Rothberg from Marist College, Poughkeepsie, USA with a speech entitled Everything I Know about Leadership I Learned as a Bartender. On the second day the keynote will be delivered by Dr Amanda Goodall from City, University of London on the topic of Why we need core business experts as leaders. ECMLG is a well established platform for individuals to present their research findings, display their work in progress and discuss conceptual advances in many different branches of Management, Leadership and Governance. At the same time it provides an important opportunity for members of the community to come together with peers, share knowledge and exchange ideas. With an initial submission of 160 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 61 academic papers, 8 PhD Papers and 2 Work in Progress papers in these Conference Proceedings. These papers reflect the truly global nature of research in the area with contributions from, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lithuania, Malaysia,

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.

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