Purpose – The aim of this paper is to analyse the factors associated with the perception of the value honesty among Russian organisational members from selected former Soviet countries: Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Design/methodology/approach – Using the Rokeach Value Survey, the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore understanding about impact of work‐related values on attitudes toward changes and organizational learning in Chinese organizations. Design/methodology/approach – Research was conducted with 1,303 respondents from 29 Chinese companies in...

Purpose – The aim of the study is to explore the relationship between organizational leadership capability and organizational performance in the context of market orientation in Estonian financial services organizations. Design/methodology/approach – A total of eight organizations from the...

Purpose – This paper sets out to investigate the effect of organizational culture on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in service companies in Estonia. CSR is defined here as a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their...

Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Social capital levels, gossip and employee performance in aviation and shipping companies in Israel -- A knowledge-based theory of the firm -- The hidden value of intangibles: do CEO characteristics matter? -- The long-term effect of...

This volume concentrates on different forms of honesty and dishonesty in management and their consequences for managers, firms and society. These issues are related to values and behavior patterns and thus, the basis of contemporary business.

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in...

The current extensive literature on the home-country employment effect of FDI focuses almost exclusively on the case of investments from high-income and high labour cost home countries. In our paper we analyse the home-country employment effect in Estonia as a lowcost medium-income transition...

Differences in the toughness of competition are likely to be one of the major determinants of the large dispersion in productivity, costs and output prices across firms even within narrowly defined sectors and geographical markets. This dissertation examines how increase in the intensity of...