Corporate success often resembles a snowball. We show how initial luck in hiring talented people, the resulting technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and status-seeking by workers can make small initial differences generate large differences over time.

Here, the authors examine the issue of ethical corporate identity to competitively position brands, and this serves as a vital platform for corporations to critically think on ways in which they can cause or affect corporate socially responsible activities tying in or matching with the values of...

Corporate success often resembles a snowball. We show how initial luck in hiring talented people, the resulting technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and status-seeking by workers can make small initial differences generate large differences over time

In this paper, through literature survey and interviews with forty-one civil service officers, the corporate culture particularly the salient features of the Singapore Civil Bureaucracy, is examined. The use of analogies and metaphors is indeed not uncommon in describing cultures, and in this...

The study began by defining values, and through literature review, highlighted that corporate leaders - through their own values held - play a large part, if not a key role in moulding their organisations and establishing their organisations' core values. Using Low's (2002) thesis as a...

Talent or human capital is the primary driver of any successful organization, better talents will definitely differentiate higher performance organization from the rest; and talent management is critical when it comes to business excellence and success. Even though talented people are crucial to...

The study, an update of a study made in 2005, begins by defining values, and through literature survey highlights that corporate leaders– through their own values held– play a large part, if not a key role in molding their organizations and establishing their organizations’ core values....

Corporate success stories often resemble a snowball. We show how initial luck in hiring talented people, the resulting technological advantage, superior corporate culture, and statusseeking by workers and by consumers can make small initial differences generate large differences over time.