Entrepreneurs cannot develop a business single handedly. One of the most important tasks the entrepreneur faces is to recruit, allocate work to, motivate and retain employees who will help the business to grow. Based on survey data, this paper examines the HRM orientations of UK and Japanese...

This article presents the results of an exploratory study on ethical perceptions and management attitudes at different organizational levels of firms operating in Chile. It analyzes the differences as a function of a set of objective characteristics of the firms included in the sample. This...

The economic impact of social responsibility can be translated into direct and indirect effects for companies that practice it. Moreover, from a macroeconomic point of view it can be assumed that a critical number of responsible companies in an economy would transform it into a focus of...

This essay has as purpose to make polemics on Human Resource Management, face to arguments on the category 'Social Responsibility' within XXIth Century firm organizations. There is also an intention to theorize grosso modo upon their application worthiness, in global market environment, related...

Nowadays management models are rather engaged to brightness of ideas than to systematic performance processes. Nevertheless, even having strong, innovative, perfectly efficacious formulas, their practical application can but to fail. The approach of organization as a dynamic influence flow...

This paper contends that the use of strategic metaphors can help deliver the effective intercultural business communication necessary for global success. Using the Renault-Nissan Alliance as an example, the authors argue that an appropriate metaphor can help provide the global glue which...

The reform of corporate governance is again on the agenda in the wake of Enron and excessive risk-taking by financial institutions. However, the search for new and better forms of governance often seems to lack guiding principles. A theory of corporate governance ought to emerge from a theory of...

Applying the modern Property Rights Approach to depict employment and firm-internal delegation relationships, this paper addresses the question how to prevent corporate bribery. The analysis and the answers that follow take into account interaction effects between firm-internal delegation...

We conduct a field experiment at a nonprofit organization’s online store to study how demand changes when consumers’ purchases generate revenue for a charitable cause. Consumers respond strongly when their purchases generate small donations by an anonymous outside group, but responses are...

One can assist to significant changes in the organisation of manufacturing systems during the last years. Lean production, network enterprise or the virtual enterprises are reference concepts of the re-organisation of manufacturing systems. Some authors mention a new enterprise paradigm, of...