Presentamos la Parte I de una introducción al management japonés, basada en una revisión de la literatura, que describe conceptos y teorías. Examinamos “los tres tesoros”: el empleo vitalicio, el seniority system y los sindicatos por empresa; también mencionamos otros rasgos del sistema,...

En el documento de trabajo número 340 de esta serie presentamos la Parte I de una introducción al management japonés, basada en una revisión de la literatura. Completamos el estudio con esta Parte II, que considera aspectos innovadores, críticas y desafíos del management japonés....

En el documento de trabajo número 340 de esta serie presentamos la Parte I de una introducción al management japonés, basada en una revisión de la literatura. Completamos el estudio con esta Parte II, que considera aspectos innovadores, críticas y desafíos del management japonés....

The article draws on the concepts of cultural and political embeddedness to analyse the local embeddedness of a global transnational engineering firm in transforming economies. It compares the process of the negotiations for and the acquisitions of assets undertaken by ABB in Wroclaw, Poland and...

The topic of environmental sustainability is generating increased concern among business executives, governments, consumers, and management scholars. As these stakeholders struggle with the challenges and opportunities presented by an array of environmental issues, HRM scholars and practitioners...

The relevance of environmental activities has increased both in research and practice. Yet, there is only little systematic insight into such activities of firms, particularly regarding human resource management aspects. This study improves the empirical knowledge for the manufacturing sector,...

Nowadays, employees' readiness for change plays a key role to implement many organizational change initiatives. Using a sample of 510 bank employees in Jordan, this study seeks to analyze how high-performance human resource management practices and affective commitment impact employees'...

The subject of the article relates to the use of social media in organizational activities aimed at creating a positive image of an organization. The image is an important element of the organization's strategy-it shapes its distinctiveness, distinguishes it from competitors, and determines how...

The author contends in this article that work-based learning is the most advantageous method to prepare people to assume mutual responsibility for leadership and management. The reason is that leadership in the current knowledge era is less frequently produced from a single individual; rather,...

The author provides a personal account of his transition from attempting to use charisma to transmit knowledge to students to removing it so that students can themselves experience knowledge as a basis for learning. Consistent with inquiry-based democratic pedagogy, the author demonstrates how...