The middle management role in strategy execution remains a critical issue in the success of strategic initiatives. The management literature has viewed middle managers as 1) implementers of topmanagement defined strategic changes, 2) relationship managers in strategic-change programs and 3) key...

Conflicts are an ever present reality; and, we see that with an increase in psychological maturity at workplaces, conflicts are increasingly being handled through negotiations. While contemporary literature and tools deal with negotiating strategy, tools and techniques, what they miss out on is...

In recent years, the employer expectations have witnessed an upward surge, in anticipation of certain discretionary behaviors out of their employees, which fall beyond the purview of workplace requirement and reward systems. All this apparently is to ensure long service periods and bring out the...

In recent years, more and more companies, both small and large, have become aware of issues related to sustainable development. In spite of the significant presence of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Europe, few studies have examined the social responsibilities of SMEs. Corporate social...

Innovation and sustainable development are major contemporary issues. Innovation represents an important tool for achieving corporate social responsibility while sustainable development is a challenge for business and emphasises the direction that innovation activities can take. The objective of...

The article formulates a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) based upon research outcomes. It enables knowledge centric entrepreneurships in Colombia to implement strategic Marketing practices. The research project explores entrepreneur’s marketing rationale through fieldwork and data analysis....

The goal of this research is to identify determinants of internet Corporate Social Responsibility communication of 41 Belgian companies. Using a content analysis and scoring technique, this paper estimates the degree of website information disclosure of companies' involvement with corporate...

This paper examines the implementation of a strategic management system at the Port Authority of Valencia, a government body managing and controlling the ports of Valencia, Sagunto and Gandia in Spain. The methodology used is a case study, a method that has grown increasingly popular in this...

An understanding of the organizational cultural preferences of new hires is required in order to achieve a person-organization fit—the key to reducing job turnover and maintaining a committed workforce. In addition, because all organizations socialize new hires (formally or informally) to...

This paper explains the importance and benefits for Libyan companies of engaging in corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD). Libya, as a developing country, was chosen by the researchers as it has undergone many changes over a short period of time in terms of economic, environmental...