Contingency theory points out the adaptive management is crucial point to sustainable firm performance. This research aims to determine the relative importance of a set of variables comprising the four entrepreneurial management variables, i.e. strategic orientation, organization culture,...

The article takes a look organizational and management challenges in Nigerian institutions and argues for the need to create a collaborative framework in the areas of communication and innovative, effective responses. There is need for the practices of shared resources, competencies, and...

There exists extensive evidence that people learn positively about themselves. We build on this finding to develop a model of team formation in the workplace. We show that learning positively about oneself systematically undermines the formation of teams. Agents becoming overconfident tend to...

We develop a model of team formation in which workers learn about their level of ability. We show that insufficient cooperation may arise as workers learn positively about their own skills. We then build a model for team managers and establish that their objectivity in assessing coworkers'...

Se la realizzazione di sistemi di produzione e consumo che concilino aspetti economici ed ambientali è un obiettivo sempre più importante per manager e politici a livello mondiale, si sa ancora poco delle competenze e conoscenze necessarie alle aziende per raggiungere questo obiettivo. Sulla...

Over the last two decades in OECD countries an increasing number of firms are obtaining certification as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O’Bannon, 1997; Waddock and Graves, 1997; McWilliams and Sieger, 2001; Ullman,...

The main aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between corporate / institution philosophy and managerial characteristics (interaction, integration, development and respect – cooperation) in volunteer teams of the non-governmental organizations in terms of the perceptions managers...

En la literatura sobre ética empresarial, encontramos un importante número de trabajos centrados en establecer marcos de comprensión sobre qué es lo que conduce a un individuo a comportarse de una manera ética o no ética. Sin embargo, los modelos propuestos hasta el momento son...

Se plantean los orígenes, evolución y clasificación de los grupos de interés (stakeholders). Se pone de relieve la relación que se entabla entre la entidad de crédito como organización social y sus diferentes grupos de interés, analizándose la importancia que se asigna a estos. El...

En las últimas décadas han sido numerosos los estudios que se han realizado para tratar de vincular e incorporar la ética dentro de la organización, incidiendo, sobre todo en la necesidad de desarrollar un comportamiento ético dentro de las organizaciones. Sin embargo, ninguno de ellos hace...