Purpose – This paper aims to provide an introduction to the special issue on the theme of sustainability and the need for change. Design/methodology/approach – The paper gives an overview of sustainability and its managerial and policy dilemmas for organizations. It also outlines the topics...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical framework to explain why corporate social responsibility (CSR) activity leads to different consumers' responses, especially why, in some cases, CSR activity might backfire on the company. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a...

We survey board practices in Brazil. Brazilian companies are commonly controlled by family groups or through shareholders agreements. Controlling shareholders hold a very large portion of voting shares, much more than the minimum necessary to retain control. There is widespread evidence of...

The authors look at the way in which Enron used hedging techniques before the corporate collapse of the organization triggered a crisis of confidence in US business practices and standards. They provide an analysis of how the system was structured and show how the transactions worked before...

Provides an appreciation of the style of the overseas Chinese businessman, with regard to entry into the varied south‐east Asian markets. Looks, particularly, at the role of the ethnic Chinese in the Asian marketing mix, tracing the starting point of 960–1279 in the South China Sea, known as...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the similarities and differences between selected behaviors of USA and Brazilian business people that can lead to unintended and unexpected conflicts when businesses from one country engage in business ventures in the other. Data were collected through...