While business-NGO partnerships have received much attention in recent years, insights have been obtained from research in ‘stable' contexts, not from conflict-ridden countries where such collaboration may be even more crucial in building trust and capacity and in addressing governance...

Spanish Abstract: El movimiento de la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (RSE) surge como contrapeso a las ganancias excesivas de las empresas en detrimento de clases sociales marginadas y el medio ambiente. El objetivo de la investigación se centró en realizar un diagnóstico de las...

In the current business environment organizations are under increased pressure to ensure that they are taking appropriate measures not only in creating value, but also in preserving value. This is required in order to adequately safeguard and defend the interests of their multiple stakeholders....

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...

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...

During a period of increasing turbulence and uncertainty in the corporate world, this timely paper contains the complete body of work addressed in the quot;Corporate Defense Insights: Dispatches from the Front Linequot; Qamp;A series (individually published at the RiskCenter throughout the...

In the field of global rule-setting for responsible business behaviour, multi-stakeholder standards have emerged in recent years because of their potential for effective consensus-building, knowledge-sharing and interest representation. Proponents also hold that multi-stakeholder standards could...

If we consider corporate defense as representing an organization's program of self-defense, we are referring to the structures, measures, mechanisms and processes aimed at defending the interests of all of its stakeholders (including its people). Managing corporate defense is therefore an...

Using rhetorical analyses of the Facebook updates and postings, the lived experience of an American Expatriate in Ghana is told through the lenses of a Ghanaian living in the United States. The study reviews the contemporary understanding and importance of expatriation to organizations and...