This article gives insight into cultural differences and the way they affect business life. The focus of the paper is to present results of a study conducted among students from Austria, Poland and Turkey. Its aim is to provide comparison of cultural dimensions crucial at workplace and to...

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals’ behaviors...

This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...

The purpose of this preliminary study is to identify the possible causes inhibiting Chinese companies from sustainable development. A review was conducted both in the Western literature and within China itself. The data for this study are from semi-structured in-depth interviews with management...

Gravity trade model continues to be coveted for analysis of determinants of trade flows despite its lack of theoretical foundations. The main aim of the paper is to assess the determinants of the flow of Nigeria's exports using longitudinal data from 1999 to 2012. Extrapolating from the...

The success stories from past years of many museums in the world have shown the need for a change in terms of management vision of this type of cultural organization, by addressing elements outside the organization as a driver for competitiveness. Thus, the opportunities generated by the...