Purpose: We address the 'economics/cross-cultural management interface,' showing that bi-polar value perceptions fit into an agency model of an economy. Design: Modern views of economic processes have moved away from the traditional view of closed systems, with a tendency to cite them as open...

There have been cries for the current dominant corporate paradigm to change, these coming from victims of the 2008 recession as well as corporate practitioners. The current paradigm centres on Individualism, but this is part of a dynamic interactive Individualism-Collectivism duality that makes...

In this paper we introduce the concept of the normative personality bedded on ideas from psychology and social psychology develop, and explains how it can be effectively characterised. There are a variety of approaches that attempt to represent personality types, but few have any substantive...

Agency theory explores autonomous systems which have the capacity to develop their own patterns of behaviour and to change that behaviour, too. Change of an agency emerges from the immanent dynamics of its own internal processes, and as responsive change from interaction with other agencies in...

The concept of sustainability is confused and controversial, this resulting from ideological differences. It is a concept often connected to viability, which similarly becomes subject to difference of understanding. It becomes clear that the ideological differences are consistent with the rise...