In 2002, thirty-four chief executives of the world’s largest multinational corporations signed a document during the World Economic Forum (WEF) entitled, ‘Global Corporate Citizenship: The Leadership Challenge for CEOs and Boards’. These included Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, Diageo, Merck &...

The present work addresses how and to what extent the personal and professional relationship networks of small-scale local entrepreneurs help improve their scarce resource endowments. Adopting a mechanistic and functioning oriented view of social capital, the paper suggests the existence of two...

In the 1980s, the cumulative impact of a host of technical-economic and macro-social trends began to fundamentally alter value creation dynamics at the workplace and organizational reality. Rapid social change has relevant implications at all levels of social reality. Via a comprehensive review,...

The aim of the paper is to reveal how corporate social performance (CSP) affects market value and earnings capabilities of companies from banking industry: Banking Services and Investment Banking & Investment Services sub-industries in particular. For Banking Services, the research was extended...

Despite sustained public debate about the current wave of offshoring, there has been limited international business research on its strategic implications. We examine the generation, appropriation and sustainability of economic rents that flow from competitive advantage in the face of...

The concept of sustainable management recognizes the need for prudent economic resource wealth management as well as the conservation of social resource wealth and the management of natural resources and maintenance of environmental friendly and sustainability policies to ensure business...

Global governance is a broad, dynamic, and complex process of interactive decision-making that is constantly evolving and responding to changing global circumstances. The incidence of poverty on cross border peace, development and the environment is obvious today. Also the consequences of...

Excellent management is often methodical and conservative therefore effective leadership is always required to drive entrepreneurship sustainability. Leaders play primary and accessory roles. The primary roles include the leader’s role as a visionary and planner, while the accessory roles...

Using two sets of hand-collected survey data, we studied the value-adding activities of venture capitalists (VCs) operating in the weak legal environment of China. VCs exert value-enhancing efforts in addition to monitoring through trust considerations. We identified the effects of three types...

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...