In recent years since the widespread adoption of the ISO 14001 international standard and the continuous update of the European EMAS scheme, along with the effects of many other environmental management schemes, environmental management systems (EMSs) have gained increasing acceptance among...

This article makes a review of theoretical concepts and theories about culture in international business, since they are topics that can not be treated in isolation for the Colombian businessmen, and much less as independent topics. They are concomitant and interdependent elements. The...

Social status and its dynamics may be an important predictor of which firms will engage in large-scale bribery. Prior theory is incomplete, however, and prior studies have lacked comprehensive and reliable data on firm-level bribery decisions. We offer a new theoretical prediction and a novel...

This essay focuses on the concept of eliminating the fiduciary duty in an LLC, as permitted by Delaware law, and what that could mean for future parties. When parties A and B get together to create an LLC, it is okay if they negotiate to eliminate their fiduciary agreements as to one another....

This study investigates the link between board independence and the quality of community disclosures in annual reports. Using content analysis and a panel dataset from the UK FTSE 350 companies, the results show a statistically significant relationship between board independence, measured by...

Purpose. Recent studies have suggested that the specific characteristics of public organizations may have a bearing on the implementation of organizational change. Public organizations typically operate in an environment characterized by checks and balances, shared power, divergent interests and...

In this article, the author introduces the leadership approach known as “leaderful practice,” an alternative to the traditional trait-based approach of individual leadership. Leaderful practice is shown to sustain an ethical infrastructure based on democratic principles. It is democracy not...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to trace the emergence of knowledge-centric innovative enterprises that function in a disaggregated and dispersed form and further contemplate the economic and managerial rationale behind this strategy. A constant challenge to large organizations as well...

Almost similar to quality management in common, Six-Sigma has penetrated most of the sectors of business world these days. Although Six-Sigma originated in industry, it has stirred a substantial amount of academic literature. This paper reviews the existing literature describing the trends,...

In recent years, a new form of co-operative business is taking shape in Italy: the community-based enterprise, a community acting collectively at both management and business level, to pursue common goals. Community-based enterprises grow on a system of networks of free relationships among the...