On May 29, 2014 Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia signed an agreement on the integration to the Eurasian Economic Union (EaEU) which formally goes into effect on January 1, 2015. A new common market of goods and factors of production will appear on the map of the planet. There are 170.3 million...

This paper is focused on the links between the protection of Traditional Knowledge (TK), including origin products, and local economic development in developing countries. The analytical framework for the paper is based on Amartya Sen‟s elaboration of “development as freedom” in which...

Importance of the topic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) gained momentum in Egypt during the past decade, yet its impact seemed to be limited. This study provides a closer look on why and how is CSR practiced in Egypt, the challenges encountered, and possible improvement of CSR practices....

A holistic analysis of the implication of businesses in genocides that combines historical evidence with tentative theorization is so far unavailable. This paper aims to contribute to start to fill this gap and, ultimately, to start a process of preventive learning concerning private sector...

In this paper we analyze the fragility at the firm level of Bosnia-Herzegovina. This Country is trying to grow after having faced four years of conflict (1992-1995) and previous series of sources of political instability. In our analysis we take into account the fact that there exist two...

The debate oncorporate human rights abuses and, in general, onthe relationship between business and human rights has seen an important development in 2011, after the unanimous endorsement of the Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) by the U.N. Human Rights Council. The U.N....

Multinational corporations (MNCs) benefit from globalization, they have emerged as major actors of the global economy and expanded their activities worldwide. Meanwhile, international society has become increasingly concerned about environmental issues and, therefore, a considerable number of...

In 2008 president Obama decided for an “open data” policy on governments’ data resources and opened since 2009 10th of thousands of data. The EU commission followed in 2009 with the “Open Forum” initiative [www.openforumeurope.eu]. Although the European Union opts for a policy to open...

The concept of job satisfaction has intrigued a debate that has extended outside the academic community and into the business and government sphere. Both academics and public managers agree that the existence of participative management improves job satisfaction of public administration...