for the initiative to acknowledge young scholars. It has been a great honor for me to have my PhD project research recognized by Highly Commended Awards from Emerald. One of the articles from my dissertation has been published in Management Decision and was chosen as the 2006 December Highlight, in January 2007 it received Emerald Literati Network's 2007 Highly Commended Award and in December 2008 the whole dissertation received a Highly Commended Award in the Management and Governance category." Professor Karina Skovvang Christensen School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus, Denmark "The Kemmy Business School is delighted with this international recognition of Dr. Christine Cross for her outstanding contribution, through her doctoral thesis, to our understanding of the factors influencing the continuing limited representation of women in key managerial functions in organisations. Her insightful study is further evidence of the high standard of scholarship emanating from the School on workplace issues which are critically important to business performance in the modern age" Professor Donal A Dineen Dean, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland "I am thoroughly delighted that my Doctoral research has been chosen as the recipient of the 2008 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Award in the category of Leadership and Organisation Development. Receiving this prestigious award is a great honour for me personally, for the awarding institution (Cork Institute of Technology) and for our Business School (Kemmy Business School). I believe the continuing support of these awards creates an important opportunity for the dissemination of the valuable research