Purpose ? The purpose of this paper is to provide an ethical foundation for relationship marketing using a virtue ethics approach.Design/methodology/approach ? The approach is a conceptual one providing a background on relationship marketing from both American and European perspectives. Earlier...

Investor relations are costly activities undertaken by firms to align the expectations of the shareholders with that of the company. These activities involve interactions with investors and analysts as well as voluntary information disclosures intended to reduce information asymmetry while...

This paper reports the preliminary work under way to analyse the composition of public spending in response to increased economic openness in the advanced industrial societies over recent decades. The compensation hypothesis predicts that public spending will rise in response to greater...

This paper reports the preliminary work under way to analyse the composition of public spending in response to increased economic openness in the advanced industrial societies over recent decades. The compensation hypothesis predicts that public spending will rise in response to greater...

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