Aktuelle Studien zur Arbeitssituation in Unternehmen belegen Einzelaspekte wieProduktivitätsverluste, fehlende emotionale Bindung der Mitarbeiter und Defizite imManagementverhalten. Die Thematik wird in dieser Fallstudie in einem interdisziplinärenAnsatz untersucht. Basierend auf dem Modell...

Applying the modern Property Rights Approach to depict employment and firm-internal delegation relationships, this paper addresses the question how to prevent corporate bribery. The analysis and the answers that follow take into account interaction effects between firm-internal delegation...

Because of the increasing importance of effective and productive management of public organizations, budgetary slack is started to be seen as an important problem for public organizations. In order to contribute the solution of this problem, the current study investigates the effects of...

There has been considerable debate about the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate governance and corporate and social performance but in recent years the term corporate social responsibility has gained prominence, both in business and in the press to such an...

This article analyzes the increasing phenomena of voluntary private sector initiatives in social responsibility and assesses the public impact of the privatized pursuit of social justice. It concludes that the social concerns at the root of the phenomenon under review are a welcome development,...

Companies that are going to thrive must have a soul. Those that are only concerned with “maximizing shareholder wealth” or “maximizing profit” will find themselves going the way Enron went. CEOs will have to lead the revolution and should be the ones exhorting executives to make...

Misconduct is widespread in Finance. Mis-selling, mis-representation and negligence harm consumers, or society, while raising profits. This paper presents a model of competition and misconduct in which managers are ethical. Managers must find a balance between their ethics, the actions which...

In 1991 Professor Ted Schneyer wrote a seminal article calling for discipline of law firms. In that article, he used the term “ethical infrastructure” to refer to a law firm's organization, policies, and operating procedures that cut across particular lawyers and tasks. In questioning how...