Belief in the powerful role that values play in family-owned firms' success and well-being drove collaboration on this research project among the disciplines of management, psychology and philosophy. The goals of this research are to define the concept of values from a philosophical perspective,...

Despite the importance that effective leader communication of visions, value-laden messages, and goals seems to have in leadership, we know very little about which leader behavior is conducive to effective persuasive communication of desired end states. The current research highlights leader...

The world in the 21st makes irreversible progress towards globalization of business and internationalization of companies. Any retailer wishes to sell as many products as possible and to obtain the best profit. They know that their product is competitive if it has the capacity to be on top on a...

Micro-enterprises represent significant proportions of small firms in most economies yet they are not routinely profiled or studied. This paper examines business processes and activities of micro home-based businesses (HBB) from an empirical study of 522 firms in New Zealand. Key findings...

The Brundtland report (1987) defi ned sustainable development as a form of development which “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’’. Given that the concept of sustainable development closely links the desire for the...

Despite a significant pool of sustainable development literature that appeared during the last decade, the term remains unclear. This study involved a theoretical analysis of definitions of sustainable development to identify the weights of different components, to assess what meanings are...