Purpose – The paper aims to study the impact of cultural differences on the ownership structure of international joint ventures in China. It is reasoned that foreign investors, when faced with larger culture-related investment uncertainties, may have the incentive to acquire more control...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the distinctive decision-making style of Alshura (participative approach) and its role in governance of Muslim states to provide insight of this pioneering democratic approach to decision making. The paper provides further knowledge of an issue...

Romania joined the EU on January 1, 2007. Becoming a full member had effects on both Romania and the European Union. Once the Association Treaty had been signed, a complex process of integration began. The integration process didn’t end after Romania’s EU accession but will continue to...

In detail knowledge of clients that banks enter in business relations with is a way of increasing the efficiency of banks’ investment portfolio. This is because banks so manage to attract new clients more easily and also keep the existing ones into their portfolios, through identifying their...

Examines the main problems plaguing Central and East European nations. Offers an explanation of why orthodox Western policies embodied in the “shock” approach will not be effective for resolving the region's problems. Suggests an alternative perspective and type of economic policy for...

Defendant offers into court is common procedural device aimed at increasing the probability that pre-trial negotiations will lead to out of court settlement. Both in the UK following the Woolf Report and the Cullen Report and in the USA, the idea of extending the arrangement to plaintiff offers...

This paper provides a cradle-to-grave model for political union between two unequally endowed states. The main contribution of this paper is to highlight the role of technology gap and unequal distribution of resources in all the above cases.

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine how the management accounting practice in an organisational unit affects the ability to conduct inter-organisational control. Design/methodology/approach – Governmentality is used as the main theoretical basis for the interpretation of...

Purpose – This paper aims to contribute to the growing body of empirical evaluations of subjective wellbeing by assessing the impact of basic cultural values and beliefs on job satisfaction across 20 countries in Eastern and Western Europe. Design/methodology/approach – Basic cultural values...

Purpose – This paper aims to report the results of a cross-national cultural experiment on auditors' belief revision when evaluating internal control. Design/methodology/approach – Hogarth and Einhorn's belief-adjustment model (BAM) and Hofstede's national culture are employed. Two...