Prinzipien sollen seit jeher die charakteristischen Züge und das Wirken der "modernen" Genossenschaften festlegen sowie deren Eigenart in die Zukunft tragen. Auf längere Sicht kann eine veränderte Anwendung selbst der Kernelemente eines genossenschaftlichen Wertesystems erforderlich werden....

Berkshire Hathaway, among history's largest and most successful corporations, shuns middlemen; its chairman, the legendary investor Warren Buffett, excoriates financial intermediaries. The acquisitive conglomerate rarely borrows money, retains brokers, or hires consultants. Its governance is...

Wirtschaft zwischen Milliarden und Moral: Gibt es eine Unternehmensverantwortung, die neben einer ökonomischen auch eine soziale und moralische Verantwortung umfasst? Karl Homann, ehem. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Marktwirtschaft nicht nur...

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...

Little light has been shed on the functioning of business in potential post-growth economies. With this paper, we aim to expand discussions on post-growth economies to the company level and suggest one possible way to connect existing management practise with the fact that, in order to stay...

The current paper is part of a wider research that has as general objective to develop an evaluation and analysis model for the total quality management (TQM) system to identify best practices that determine its’ performance, in order to improve it. The research is focused on organizations...

The paper refers to relationships between the innovativeness of an organization and its selected determinants such as strategy, corporate culture, structure and operational processes. Research was conducted among 200 managers at the top, middle and operational levels of management (200 companies...

Purpose The article explores the linkages between the type of environmental strategy (ES), the use of internal communication (IC), and the greening of organizational culture (OC). Moreover, the article empirically examines whether company size matters in the use of environmental IC practices in...

The paper deals with the elements of business ethics and social responsibility, as important factors for improving the corporate image of the organizations, and thus achieving a competitive advantage on the market. The competitiveness and development of the organization in conditions of more and...

The possession of intangible assets has long been assumed as the major driver of international expansion and the factor that gives rise for the multinational company. The growth trajectory of South Africa banks does not conform with this theoretical prediction. In spite of the evident possession...