This is an electronic reprint of a review of the book "Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture" by Eric L. Jones, Princeton: Princeton University Press that appeared in the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2007, vol. 163, issue 3, pages 526-529, URL...

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

It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...

It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...

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...