By means of a review of the entrepreneurial importance of intellectual capital, this article analyzes how it is applied for the Spanish company Irizar, helping it to overcome the productive crisis. In this context, we attempt to validate three premises about the generation of knowledge, which...

In 'Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era,' I argue that Japan's lifetime employment system is not collapsing under the various pressures of globalization and modernization, but that it is developing gradually and that it continues to work well for the salarymen that work within it....

This research examines the relationship between the dimensions of McClelland's Theory of needs (i.e., needs for power, achievement, and affiliation), felt accountability, and informal accountability for others (IAFO). This study's aim is to enhance organizational research by demonstrating the...

The purpose of this review is to evaluate the status of scholarly research on Japanese management as it is applied outside Japan. The first part of the review deals with the concept of Japanese management. The second part aims at understanding how Japanese management is applied in foreign...

There is an increasing recognition of the need to provide ways for people to raise concerns about suspected wrongdoing by promoting internal policies and procedures which offer proper safeguards to actual and potential whistleblowers. Many organisations in both the public and private sectors now...

One of the most important prerequisites for effective leadership is powerful communication. This has been observed throughout all of human history, and examples of powerful communication may be found even in one of the oldest documents of record, the Hebrew Bible. This paper examined a small...

Post-conflict economies often prove daunting for foreign investors. Many of these nations are reaching out to diasporans, emigrants, and their descen- dants living abroad, for much-needed foreign investment capital. Little is known about why diasporans invest in their countries of origin. Recent...

This paper explores the connection between business and culture and discusses in which way the extended, in-depth understanding of the target market culture can improve the economic success of an internationally active company. The purpose of the paper is to show that achieving success in the...