Executive and supervisory boards of large companies in Germany are still dominated by men - to an extraordinary degree. Only 2.5% of all executive board members in the200 largest companies (not including the financial sector) are women, and only 10% of all seats on supervisory boards are...

Ethics, or its lack, has played a key role in the great crisis. Repeated failures, individual or systemic, have been too frequent and recurrent in recent years not to wonderwhether something in the prevailing model of ethics must indeed be changed. Benedetto XVI in the encyclical Caritas in...

This paper estimates a three-equation structural model based on a theory that relates corporate financial performance (CFP), corporate social performance (CSP), and social pressure. CFP is found to be independent of CSP and decreasing in social pressure, and CSP is independent of CFP and...

The attractiveness of a state regarding foreign investors, multinational banks and creditors, is closely related to country risk assessment. Most of the financial and economic rating agencies such as Standard & Poor's, Fitch, Moody's, etc., are in a position to analyze, more or less...

In our research, we are trying to reveal the importance of culture in the United States, regarding consumer behavior, viewed in terms of visible contradictions, as well as its role in spreading ideas and goods coming from another country. We have also completed an analysis on one of the most...

This study is related to public policy issues, such as the ethics of marketing practices and the dynamics of popular culture. Although textbooks often present the consumer as a rational decision maker, often harmful for consumer activities of the individual or society. Often, the consumer's...

The purpose of the article is to study the visible actions of social responsibility (SR) in the romanian banking organizations. The research aimed to highlight the most active and non active banking organizations in Romania, regarding the implementation of SR. The main domains they are...

Organizational culture has been given a wide array of definitions by researchers, and is yet to be looked upon as a unitary, unanimously accepted concept. By organizational culture, one understands a coherent ensemble of norms, values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours specific to any...

The paper discusses the recent developments shown by Foreign Direct Investments in land in developing countries. Three issues are analyzed, the first being the available evidence on "land grabbing" and the associated question of the role of control over land in the internationalisation of the...

We analyze the effect of investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) on workers' motivation. In our experiment, a gift exchange game variant, CSR is captured by donating a certain share of profits to a charity. We are testing for CSR effects by varying the possible share of profits...