This paper surveys the literature criticizing the view that managers should run companies aiming to create shareholder value by maximizing stock prices. Based on a multidisciplinary approach, I include empirical and theoretical papers from fields such as corporate law, management, finance,...

Better science enables better technology that builds better bridges (or washing machines or computers). Similarly, better social science enables better social technology, and builds better organizations. The Executive Pocket Guidebook is an easily read introduction to the application of improved...

Understanding strategic human resource management (SHRM) as intrinsic to the relationship between people and the organization such that SHRM IS the roll out of strategy and performance management IS maintenance of strategic success. Perfect game plans perfectly delivered. The science of making...

Aiming at a better understanding of the extent to which Africa-focused research has helped develop context-bound, context-specific, and context-free knowledge, the authors present the findings from a literature review of journal articles with an African context. A systematic search resulted in...

Knowledge sharing typically examines organizational transfer of knowledge, often from headquarters to subsidiaries, from developed country sites to emerging country sites, or from host to local employees. Yes, recent research, such as Prahalad's Bottom of the Pyramid, raises the question of...

Spanish Abstract: En este escrito se pretende presentar las conclusiones preliminares de la primera fase de una investigación sobre la parte externa de las compañías, los proveedores, acreedores y distribuidores en función de las principales decalaraciones de principios de Responsabilidad...

Spanish Abstract: Esta es una presentación PPT que discute el futuro del gobierno corporativo (GC) y como el negocio exitoso del siglo XXI será diferente de su contra-parte del siglo XX. La presentación contiene siete mensajes clave:1. El mundo está pasando por cambios estructurales que...

Social benefit entities, such as benefit corporations and low-profit limited liability companies (or L3Cs) were designed to support and encourage socially responsible business. Unfortunately, instead of helping, the emergence of social enterprise enabling statutes and the demise of director...

With the fast-pace growth on apartment buildings in major cities in Indonesia, it is interesting to investigate the underlying reasons behind such high growth rates. Relying on the perspective of employee competence and prevailing activities on customer relationship management (CRM), this study...

In 2019 the number of individuals employed exceeded 45 million in Germany for the first time. Since 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic put another factor into play that influences job satisfaction of employees, as well as their organizational commitment to the current employer. Due to contact...