This study examines the influence of culture on management's response to the challenge of climate change, as manifested in firms' voluntary participation in carbon disclosure via the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). We argue that national culture impacts managerial attitudes and philosophies...

What are a negotiator's ethical and moral obligations during a negotiation? Should a negotiator be dedicated to achieving the greatest value possible for his or her client even though that goal may appear to require some degree of deception? Does it make a difference whether a culture has a...

In the late 1990s, it was announced that Australia would introduce legislation to respond to an OECD Convention for criminalizing bribery of foreign public officials. This was part of a coordinated international OECD initiative. The US had already addressed such issues two decades earlier under...

Currently, there are no adequate mechanisms under international law to balance the competing tensions climate change presents to state sovereignty. On one hand, climate change threatens state sovereignty because the catastrophic loss of life and property of millions of people would deprive...

The current article traces back the scientific interest to cultural levels across the organization at the University of National and World Economy, and especially in the series of Economic Alternatives - an official scientific magazine, issued by this Institution. Further, a wider and critical...

Examination of the strict disclosure standards under the Code of Ethics for Arbitrators in Commercial Disputes and the more lenient conflict-of-interest guidelines promulgated by the International Bar Association, particularly in light of the Fifth Circuit decisions in Positive Software...

This paper investigates the effects of national culture on firm risk-taking, using a comprehensive dataset covering 50,000 firms in 400 industries in 51 countries. Risk-taking is found to be higher for domestic firms in countries with low uncertainty aversion, low tolerance for hierarchical...

The paper examines the relationship between CSR and cost of equity in an in-ternational context assessing the moderating effect of culture on the relation between CSR and the cost of equity. We use an international sample of 42 countries, and company-level data from 2002-2013, to address...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship that Ethical Work Climates and National Culture have on business faculty in universities. Most studies involving ethics focus on students or professions outside academia. We felt that looking at the teaching profession and in particular...

This study examines the role of codes of ethics in reducing the extent to which managers act opportunistically in reporting earnings. Corporate codes of ethics, by clarifying the boundaries of ethical corporate behaviors and making relevant social norms more salient, have the potential to deter...