These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 18th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance (ECMLG 2022) hosted by ACI and ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal on 10 - 11 November 2022. The Conference Chair is Professor Florinda Matos and the Program chair is Professor Álvaro Rosa, both from ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. ECMLG is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 18th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. 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 Professor Miguel Pina e Cunha, Nova SBE - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, on the topic of Paradoxes of power and leadership. The second day of the conference Keynote presentation is given by Professor Stefan Güldenberg, EHL Hospitality Business School Lausanne, on the topic of Rethinking Leadership in the Knowledge Economy. With an initial submission of 129 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 56 Academic research papers, 8 PhD research papers, and 2 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macau, Malta, Nepal, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, The Netherlands, UK, United Arab Emirates and the USA.

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 19th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance (ECMLG 2023) hosted by ACI and Bayes Business School, City, University of London, UK on 23 - 24 November 2023. The Conference Chair is Dr Martin Rich from Bayes Business School, City, University of London, UK. ECMLG is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 19th year. The key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. 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 Dr Jeffrey Ridley, PhD, FCG, FIIA, CIA, on the topic of A lifetime of Management and Governance Learning: A wish for you all. The second day of the conference Keynote presentation is given by Professor Pumela Msweli, University of South Africa, on the topic of The Leadership Dance on a geopolitically entangled dance floor: Towards Unitive Consciousness. With an initial submission of 164 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 54 Academic Research papers, 11 PhD Research papers, 2 Masters Research papers and 2 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from China, Czech Republic, Czechia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Kenya, Macau, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, the UK and the 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

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.