Today, project management practices play a key role in different industries and sectors. Project management is promoted as an organizational strategic component that leads innovation, creates value and turns vision into reality. Despite the importance of projects and project management their high rate of failures and challenges is a major concern of both industry and academia. Among the reasons that affect project outcomes, stakeholder influential attributes and more importantly, their understanding and effective utilization and management are identified as the key to project success. This study utilizes the body of knowledge developed in the field of project management and uses stakeholder theory combined with a number of complementary theories to achieve its goals and objectives. The study moves beyond the traditional power-based frameworks employing six key influential attributes to examine their direct and mediating effects on project success. The quantitative survey data are analyzed using SEM statistical techniques and procedures to produce research results. The research results have led to the development of a new typology of stakeholder influential attributes (TSIA) and a stakeholder-based project management model (SBPMM) that aid managing for stakeholders' strategy and principle.

This study focuses on the role of supervisor-subordinate communication and leadership style on organisational commitment of nursing staff in the selected hospital. Meyer and Allen's instrument for multidimensional organizational commitment was utilized in this research. Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire was adapted from Stogdill's" (LBDQ-XII) form 12 and the items related to supervisor-subordinate communication were derived from two different researches by Heald, Girton and Kazanskya. The structured questionnaire was completed by 134 nursing staff of a major complex hospital in Tehran, Iran. In the demographic data, the majority of the respondent were 20 -30 years old female, had more than 10 years tenure and a Bachelor Degree. Overall, T-test analysis showed significant differences in type I and type II leader's consideration regarding level of affective and continuance commitment. Regression analysis indicated a significant contribution of communication exchange in affective commitment through type I and type II leader's consideration, whereas mutual communication showed a significant contribution in affective commitment only in type II consideration. There was no contribution of supervisor-subordinate communication in continuance commitment according to the two types of leader's consideration. In conclusion, the level of affective commitment is different among nursing staff and depends on quality of the leader and member communication and leaders' consideration. Especially in higher level of leader consideration and mutual communication, dependency of the nursing staff will increase. However, the continuance commitment depends on other factors which were not considered in current study.

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Purpose Asian economy in transition is facing great deal of challenges, so its corporate governance. This paper investigates the dominant corporate governance models practiced under the liberal market capitalism, cooperative capitalism, collective capitalism and the state capitalism across the continents and proposes conscious governance approach for Asia and emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores and compares Anglo-American and Continental European corporate governance models. The report further investigates the development of corporate governance across Asian publicly listed companies, state-owned enterprises, small and medium enterprises and other privately held large enterprises, and raises questions and concerns and derives conclusion. Findings The Asian experience of imposing Western corporate governance models is more of a simplification of tasks based on political, cultural and globalization needs rather than the regions’ economic, financial and social development reality. Practical implications The unique proposition of conscious corporate governance aligns corporate governance practice with Asian socio-economic transition vision and helps with further development and reforms. Originality/value The paper adds to the existing efforts and triggers a fresh view to the Asian and emerging economies corporate governance research and strategy.

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