Notwithstanding one decade of corporate law reform during which the German legislature augmented the traditional explicit system of corporate control with market-based corporate governance devices, the German corporate governance reform law agenda is still packed. The paper provides an overview...

In this paper we report results from a study which explores the impact of quality on performance in the financial services industry. Although some disagreement exists, the operations management, economics and marketing literature advocate a positive relationship between quality and financial...

In a recent comment made about my paper “A Social Movement Perspective on Finance: How Socially Responsible Invetsment Mattered” (J Bus Ethics 92:57–78, 2010), published in this journal, Déjean, Giamporcaro, Gond, Leca and Penalva-Icher (J Bus Ethics 112: 205-212, 2013) strongly criticize...

The financial regulation is moreover based on self-regulation and the coordination of external and internal supervision. This determines an evolution in the role played by the supervisory authorities, and in the manner in which they interact - with and almost advisory function - with the...

We examine the relations between national cultures, the multinationality of the firm and its holdings of cash. We develop several hypotheses from well known corporate finance theories and theories of the multinational firm, positing that cultural factors as well as the degree of multinationality...

This paper summarizes the recent stock options backdating scandal from the perspective of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The paper begins with a brief history of the stock options expensing debate. The paper continues with a discussion of the academic research that propelled the...

In this paper, we will propose that both Management bu instructions (MBI) and Management by Objectives (MBO) today give notoriously inadequate results. Management by Values (MBV), on the other hand, is emerging as a strategic leadership tool of tremendous potential for practical development, as...

İşletmelerin verimlilik ve etkililiğini artırmada insan kaynağına yönelik olarak odaklanılması ve geliştirilmesi gereken konulardan birisi de “Örgütsel Vatandaşlık” davranışlarıdır. Bu çalışmada “Örgütsel Vatandaşlık” olgusu öncelikle kuramsal yönleriyle...

The environmental policy and Corporate Social Responsibility are two notions of high importance for enterprises and nations. Numerous pages have been written about the environmental policy of companies in their CSR reports. Whether it concerns to raise environmental awareness among their...

This paper addresses a gap in the literature concerning suitability of organizational learning approaches in facing social responsibility challenges, and proposes a developed framework that could proactively bridge this gap. A new framework is designed in order to gain insight on the...