Educational institutions in general have a unique culture that lends itself to independent thinking, autonomy, participation, and shared governance. However, national context plays a major role in shaping the nature of these academic organizations, with implications for management and human...

The extension of the European Union represents a huge opportunity for the companies, but in an equal measure it is a real challenge, namely the one to face competition with European enterprises. Quality stands for a constituent part of the competitiveness but the extension of the European Union...

This study defines SHRM as employee/business performance relationship. Employee performance has an impact on performance of business departments in this model; and, performance of business departments have an impact on firm performance. In addition, American model of SHRM defines SHRM with HR...

Using archival data published in 2003 and 2007, we investigated factors that influence the change of nationality of the most senior executives in foreign affiliates of MNCs operating in Japan. Our results show that as the length of operation in Japan increased, the likelihood of a non-Japanese...

American HRM has shareholder perspective, and European HRM has stakeholder perspective. This creates divergence between HRM of both markets. This divergence makes social context important in European HRM. European HRM aims to protect interests of society; therefore, there is involvement of...

The International Standards Organisation's ISO 26000 on social responsibility supports organisations of all types and sizes in their responsibilities towards society and the environment. ISO 26000 recommends that organisations ought to follow its principles on accountability, transparency,...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of emotional intelligence on organizational performance among insurance companies in Kenya. Design/methodology/approach: Positivism research philosophy was adopted for the study. Descriptive and explanatory cross-sectional...

Synergistic value integrates insights from the stakeholder theory the resource based view theory and shared value. The stakeholder theory provides opportunities to align business practices with societal expectations and sustainable environmental needs. Businesses ought to reconcile disparate...

In 2002, thirty-four chief executives of the world’s largest multinational corporations signed a document during the World Economic Forum (WEF) entitled, ‘Global Corporate Citizenship: The Leadership Challenge for CEOs and Boards’. These included Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, Diageo, Merck &...

The factors that determine firms' levels of internationalization remain a focal area of international business research. Within this research stream, studies building on the upper echelons theory have investigated the influence of the demographic characteristics of the top management team (TMT)...