Locally owned, northern SMEs often find themselves working out of and in small communities in sparsely populated regions. Using a constructive research design and semi-structured interviews with SMEs from Northern Finland, Norway and Iceland this study highlights the relationship between the...

The aim of the paper is to define the important factors of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Business Ethics (BE), and Human Resource Management (HRM), and to quantify their impact on the formation of positive attitudes of SMEs towards the concept of Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG)...

This essay has as purpose to make polemics on Human Resource Management, face to arguments on the category 'Social Responsibility' within XXIth Century firm organizations. There is also an intention to theorize grosso modo upon their application worthiness, in global market environment, related...

We develop a theory of how firms respond to each other's CSR activities. We contend that whether a firm will emulate, ignore, or oppose a rival's CSR efforts depends on attributes of the underlying social issue, specifically on its pervasiveness, salience, and agreement. We develop a formal...

This paper has two objectives. Our first aim is to critically analyze the ethical implications of current accounting principles relating to human resources. Our second purpose is to propose three alternatives to the current accounting treatment of human resource costs as an expense of doing...

The General Electric Company (GE) is widely regarded as one of the world's most successful corporations of the 20th century. This paper aims to critically analyse the corporate strategy of GE during the period from 1981 to present under the leadership of two very different but equally...