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How future managers view societal culture : a comparison across seven CEE countries
Catana, Doina; Pučko, Danijel; Krzykała-Schaefer, Renata - In: Journal of East European management studies : JEEMS 18 (2013) 4, pp. 463-481
students in business and engineering from their cultural assumption perspective. The cluster-distinctive cultural practices are … decrease), Performance Orientation and Humane Orientation (desire to increase). Country of origin influences the students …
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Values and leadership expectations of future managers : theoretical basis and methodological approach of the GLOBE Student project
Cater, Tomaž; Lang, Rainhart; Szabo, Erna - In: Journal of East European management studies : JEEMS 18 (2013) 4, pp. 442-462
This article introduces the joint research project titled "GLOBE Student" with its focus on seven Central and Eastern … leadership prototypes of future managers, based on the assumption that today's students will likely form the future management in … discuss their appropriateness and shortcomings for the analysis and explanation of students’ leadership prototypes. …
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The Future of Capitalism : 'Un-Corporating' Corporate Governance
Fenwick, Mark - 2016
A corporate governance model built around hierarchical structures, in which authority and empowerment flows through the board of directors to management and eventually staff, and the board is responsible to shareholders (the owners) of a company, worked well in an era of industrial capitalism,...
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Diverse Hedge Funds
Lu, Yan; Naik, Narayan Y.; Teo, Melvyn - 2021
We explore the value of diversity for hedge funds. We show that fund management teams with heterogeneous education backgrounds, work experiences, nationalities, genders, and races, outperform homogeneous teams by 5.03% to 8.10% per annum after adjusting for risk. An event study of...
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Birthplace diversity and team performance
Brox, Enzo; Krieger, Tommy - 2019
We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...
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The effects of corporate and country sustainability characteristics on the cost of debt : an international investigation
Hoepner, Andreas G. F.; Oikonomou, Ioannis; Scholtens, Bert - 2014 - This version: October 2014
We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into 470 loan agreements signed between 2005 and 2012 with borrowers based on 28 different countries across the world and operating in all major industries. Our principal findings...
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Investing in employees in Serbian companies : internal dimension of CSR
Damnjanović, Milena - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 5 (2019) 1, pp. 441-448
Implementation of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become important for all stakeholders and an important part of company’s businesses and reporting. Little research attention is given to the research about CSR from employees' perspective and to the influence of CSR to...
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Crisis and corporate social responsibility : threat or opportunity?
Fernández-Feijóo, Belén - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 2 (2009) 1, pp. 36-50
The objective of this paper is to reflect on the consequences of the current economic and financial crisis on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a concept of great importance nowadays. The core approach is the possible link between CSR and the crisis, if both elements can be combined. After...
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Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? : international evidence
Dyck, Alexander; Lins, Karl; Roth, Lukas; Wagner, Hannes - 2015
This paper assesses whether shareholders drive the environmental and social (E&S) performance of firms worldwide. Across 41 countries, we find that institutional ownership is positively associated with E&S performance with additional tests suggesting this relation is causal. Our evidence shows...
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Institutional Country Factors and Corporate Social Responsibility
Soppe, Aloy - 2013
Inspired by the LaPorta et al. (1997, 1998) work on comparative corporate governance, we tested the Matten & Moon (2008) framework to analyze differences in cross-national CSR performance. A model was built that questions whether different social, environmental and governance issues are more...
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