A notion of auditor independence, envisaged as crucial to the credibility of the audit function, resides in professional Codes of Ethics in much of the western world. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the auditor independence construct has been imported eastwards and incorporated into...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate diversity attitudes of business school students across three national contexts Norway; India and the Czech Republic. These three countries are dissimilar from one another in terms of values, such as individualism and collectivism (Hofstede,...

In their quest to move toward free‐market economics, different nations have adopted contrasting strategies in implementing reforms. The Czechs and Slovaks, adjacent nations with similar natural resources, were both united for a substantial period of time. Although both shared a common...

Purpose – To provide an Asia‐Pacific viewpoint of the key constraints associated with large geographic distances for smaller westerns firms entering central and eastern Europe (CEE), described as a turbulent transitional environment. Design/methodology/approach – An exploratory study was...

Explores the problems of manager development within the context of the move from a command to a free economy. Places particular emphasis on issues concerned with the education of manager educators and trainers, with reference to the Czech Republic. Proposes models of development for both large...

The recent process of the transition to market systems in the Central European economies has had profound effects on both trade and domestic output. Two of the by‐products of the transition, the fall in the volume of intra‐COMECON trade as well as the deliberate tightening of the fiscal...

Helped by somewhat limited inward investment from the West and a programme of wide‐scale privatization, reform in the Czech Republic appears to be proceeding relatively successfully. Emerging from the pressures of a long and complex history of political, geophysical and economic change and...

Presents the initial findings of an ongoing study into the motives and uses of the joint venture by British investors in the Czech Republic. Observes that, despite the many opportunities presented of doing business in Eastern Europe, the British have been slow to invest; the UK does not feature...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the context and nature of marketing used by nonprofit organizations in the Czech Republic. Design/methodology/approach – A number of senior self‐designated marketing managers in a wide range of non‐profit organizations in Prague were interviewed to...