The companies’ sector in Romania experienced a positive development after 1990, especially concerning their number, as a result of private initiative and privatizations. The prevalence of SMEs in the companies’ sector is obvious, and their number increased 3.4 times after 1992, to a amount...

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...

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...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between work values and attitudes towards work ethics for public and private sector employees. The results of the study reveal a significant relationship between work values and attitudes towards work ethics. A further examination...

After the two studies of 1998 and 2003, the latest “EAA-LR” research, undertaken in 2010 and based on the results of 2009, is permeated by a context of recession, both economic and agricultural, and even more apparent than during the 2003 study, having particularly affected the wine growing...

The authors analyze the tensions in co-operative development by drawing upon the works of the Montréal school of thought on co-operative management, the first contributions of which date to the creation of the Centre for Co-operative management at HEC Montréal in 1975. They suggest that the...

The objective of this paper is to present different approaches that explain the corporate social responsibility. First, we describe two approaches based on economic (rational approach) and moral considerations (moral approach). Second, we propose an alternative approach that suggests that...

The subject of the research presented in this paper is the role of the leadership of change agents in the implementation of organisational change. The focus of research is on the micro-aspect of change, specifically on the impact of changes in employees and their attitudes and behaviours that...

If you are not sure where you are, how will you find out where to go? The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the KPIs and the shipping marketing as well as the usefulness of KPIs in shipping companies performance evaluation. The paper brings the importance of KPIs closer to...