The purpose of this paper is to clarify the reasons why most of the Japanese companies have a high regard for employee's competence and don't adopt personnel retrenchment as one of the urgent countermeasures to come out of a business slump. We looked over historical documents about business...

For what purpose do we consider ethics in management, not only of an enterprise? Well, the answer is inscribed in the last five columns of the back part of the stele containing the epilogue, at the end of which already Hammurabi had found an answer introducing his Code, “that the strong might...

This essay on Corporations is a chapter in an upcoming volume on economic theology edited by Stefan Schwarzkopf.The secular study of corporations has long regularly focused on three sets of concerns: (1) Is the idea of corporate “personhood” only a convenient shorthand for a complex set of...

The paper titled "The importance of ethics in management decisions" examines key issues and factors that determine the accuracy of managerial ethics, proposed a model for examining the ethical guide management decisions, and outline some ways to improve performance in managerial ethics

Das Ziel, mehr Frauen in Spitzengremien der Wirtschaft zu berücksichtigen, findet sowohl in der Öffentlichkeit als auch in der Politik immer stärkere Beachtung. Die Forderungen nach einer Frauenquote und die öffentlichkeitswirksame Bestellung von vier Frauen in die Vorstände der...

Bei der vergleichsweise hohen Fluktuation in den Spitzengremien des Finanzsektors in Deutschland in Folge der Finanzkrise wurde die Chance verpasst, für eine Erhöhung des Anteils der dort vertretenen Frauen zu sorgen. Im Jahr 2011 lag der Frauenanteil in Vorständen auf einem ähnlich geringen...

This paper focuses on the management control processes associated with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues management in organisations. Following a review of the literature related to management control and CSR, we use a case example of a leading European insurance company to explore...

The changes within the organizations, the mutations of the employment market have determined the manifestation of a modern organizational phenomenon, namely the intercultural work teams (IWT). The statement that work teams are a microcosm of organization’s high performance, as a whole, induces...

The studies of management and organization on the discourse and the power of the discourse are the aggregate of the techniques about the negotiation, problem solving and presentation. In the context of management studies, the discourse gains a functional quality beyond the perception of the...