Coupled with the continuing threat of reduced defence expenditures and increasing competition, European defence companies have reacted with a number of strategic manoeuvres involving mergers, acquisitions and other forms of alliance. Moves towards a single European defence industry have been a...

This paper explores the concept of a reverse diffusion of knowledge, that is, the transfer flowing from a company’s subsidiary to its home plant. The article presents the empirical evidence gathered in General Motors UK and Poland, where the reverse diffusion of a concept of the built-in...

The article presents research results concerning CSR-related criteria of managerial decision-making and their level of importance from the perspective of students of technically and business oriented study programs across seven European countries. The first part of the article deals with...

This article analyses the leadership expectations of students in their role of potential future managers, comparing leadership prototypes across countries from Central and Eastern Europe with a focus on participative leadership. The findings suggest a complex web of influences, with individual...

The purpose of our exploratory study is to describe the characteristics of a sample of Central and East European students in business and engineering from their cultural assumption perspective. The cluster-distinctive cultural practices are: High Power Distance, In-group and Institutional...

This article introduces the joint research project titled "GLOBE Student" with its focus on seven Central and Eastern European countries at its current stage. The project's overall aim is to investigate cultural ideals and practices as well as leadership prototypes of future managers, based on...