Purpose This paper aims to study how biases in decision-making processes could be reduced. In this vein, over the past 30 years, scholars interested in decision-making have been raising their interest in the development of quality control tools to mitigate the effects of cognitive distortions....

The paper presents the main results of a research project lead by the Department of Sociology and Communication of the University of Rome, Italy to understand the impact of ICT on the job contents and the work modalities of the professional workers operating in the field of hi-tech services. The...

The increasing number of crimes in areas with large concentrations of people have made cities one of the main sources of violence. Understanding characteristics of how crime rate expands and its relations with the cities size goes beyond an academic question, being a central issue for...

The contemporary management is often faced with the fact that in theory accepted basis are not in managerial practice fully followed. As an example, could be stated the understanding of the company as a system. In theory, an enterprise is defined as a relatively isolated system, but the practice...

This paper tries to demonstrate ethical value as being an essential element in order to achieve sustainability in many societies such as Iran. In addition this paper lays out some of obstacle and challenges about ethical issues in Iranian industries. The evidence from our investigation supports...

One important challenge is managing an organization in which members conduct their business in an ethical manner. In our paper are two aspects important. One aspect of this challenge is having knowledge of environmental and organizational conditions that increase the likelihood of unethical...