The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...

We sketch out two basic paradigms informing banking practice: the economistic paradigm focusing on profit maximization and the humanistic one, serving the common good. We then highlight paradigmatic cases to explore how each of these business models fared during the quasi-natural experiment of...

Indian financial sector is dominated by banks. Interestingly, commercial banks account for over 60% of the total assets of financial system comprising of banks, insurance companies, non-banking financial companies, cooperative banks, mutual funds and other financial entities (Reserve Bank of...

This paper presents five key aspects of organizational performance: the relationship with the environment, the consistency with the objectives and the set out strategy, the importance of the human element, the effectiveness and efficiency concern, and the contribution of TQM as a guarantee of...

This review explores with the variety of literature support the relationship of variables with respect to employee morale and organizational trust. To extend and facilitate further studies contextually and empirically, a mind-map is presented to show how these relationship variables relate to...

This is a PDF file of ‘Behavioral Finance Curriculum – What Topics and Teaching Approaches to Utilize in a Course?' slides from a presentation at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics, September 18-21, 2012, Polytechnic Institute of New York University,...

This article makes a review of theoretical concepts and theories about culture in international business, since they are topics that can not be treated in isolation for the Colombian businessmen, and much less as independent topics. They are concomitant and interdependent elements. The...

Brown (2007) has described ethical leadership as “the demonstration of normatively appropriate conduct through personal actions and interpersonal relationships, and the promotion of such conduct to followers through two-way communication, reinforcement, and decision making” (p. 141). Kanungo...

We use machine learning methods to create a comprehensive measure of credit risk based on qualitative information disclosed in conference calls and in management's discussion and analysis section of the 10- K. In out-of-sample tests, we find that our measure improves our ability to predict...

Spanish Abstract: Las negociaciones pueden ser de muy diferente índole; por ejemplo, cara a cara, en equipo, multilaterales, que incluyan importantes elementos interculturales y, también, algunas en las que las nuevas tecnologías de las comunicaciones desempeñan un papel relevante. En las...