Despite the importance and popularity of the stewardship concept in the current management literature, antecedents and the role of the surrounding framework of stewardship remains poorly understood. Similarly, relatively little is known about the outcomes of stewardship. In this study I set out...

In recent years, the segment of the world's poor has moved into the focus of business and academia. This trend was accelerated by stagnation tendencies in the industrialized world together with comparatively high growth rates in developing countries. Under the headline Base of the Pyramid,...

Consumers' budgets are influenced by the temporal frame used for the budget period. Budgets planned for the next month are much lower than recorded expenses, while those for the next year are closer to recorded expenses (study 1). The difficulty of estimating budgets for the next year imparts...

We find that exposure to different types of categories or assortments in a first task creates a mindset that changes how consumers process information. These mindsets in turn, have a spillover effect that alters consumers' decision making in a variety of subsequent and unrelated tasks, from...

In the past five years, companies have been confronted with an environment principally by the presence uncertainty, dynamism and complexity. Uncertainty evident when making decisions, without being able to have certainty about what can happen to the company, the dynamic look is accomplished by...

The topic of risk incorporates a variety of definitions within different fields such as psychology, sociology, finance, and engineering. In academic finance, the analysis of risk has two major perspectives known as standard (traditional) finance and behavioral finance. The central focus of...

The twentieth first century has witnessed resurgence in the observance of fundamental Islamic practices around the world. However, the fact cannot be denied that the current state of business under unbridled capitalism in the majority of cases in the Muslim world remains far from the Islamic...

This paper examines the use of the Integrated ABC-and-EVA Information System for the management of new technology projects. The advantages of integrating the Activity-Based Costing system with the Economic Value Added financial performance measure and the positive impacts of this integration on...