What is capital?

If you want to set up a company,you will need money, and this is called capital.
Companies can raise it from banks, and this is called a loan. The loan must be paid back with interest, which is that amount of money you should pay to borrow money.
You can also raise capital if you issue shares or equities. These are certificates that represent units of ownership of a business.

The people who invest their money in shares are the shareholders and they own part of the company, and the capital they provide is called share capital.
Another way to borrow money is to issue bonds and people, whether they are individuals or institutions, buy bonds as investments which pay interest and are paid back at a fixed maturity date.

The money that you owe to others is called a debt. In accounting, the debts that companies have are called liabilities. They can be long-term (more than one year) and in this case they may be bonds; they can also be short-term (less than one year) and in this case they may be a debt the company has to pay to suppliers for purchasing goods or services, which will be paid for later on.

The money that you use for daily expenses necessary for the business is called working capital.

Rethinking the Adaptive Leadership model through the Italian Adaptive Leadership Behavior Questionnaire

Since Heifetz designed the adaptive leadership framework in 1994, the academic literature has benefitted from many qualitative research studies focusing on specific adaptive challenges and how the adaptive leadership framework can be practically used to face these. It seems very few have dealt with adaptive leadership through the quantitative lens and have attempted to measure adaptive leadership behaviors or tested Heifetz’s adaptive leadership six-dimensional model. In response, my PhD research aimed to measure the perception of adaptive leadership behaviors across the Italian corporate context and to investigate whether Heifetz’s adaptive leadership model can apply to the Italian culture. Findings and contribution to knowledge can be read in the thesis: Novellini, P. (2023) Rethinking the Adaptive Leadership model through the Italian Adaptive Leadership Behavior Questionnaire, PhD thesis, University of Sunderland.

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Novellini - Hall Italian Adaptive Leadership Behavior Questionnaire

Do you want to measure the perception of adaptive leadership within your company or team? You can use 'Novellini - Hall Adaptive Leadership Behaviour Questionnaire', a new tool in the literature of leadership. This questionnaire was designed especially to be used in the business environment with a perspective on the higher level figures in the hierarchy. However, you can use it in any type of environment and at any level by adapting the terminology to the reality you want to focus on.

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