Strategic alignment deals with organizational strategic fit with functional areas strategies, such as human resources management strategy. It is based on goal setting premise which believes in collaborative effort that involves all parties imagining and working towards a common aim in tandem....

Despite the increasing importance of business angels (BAs) as crucial players in the growth of high-potential early-stage startups, their motivations are not fully understood. Many of the perceptions of BAs deviate significantly from more conventional views of conventional economic and financial...

Expediency is subtle, but it is detrimental to the organization. This study aims to discover what at the workplace prompts supervisor expediency. Based on the literature, it is predicted that supervisor expediency results from high-performance goals. Furthermore, supervisor bottom-line mentality...

Using natural language processing, we identify and categorize the corporate goals in the shareholder letters of the 150 largest companies in the United States, from 1955 to 2020. Corporate goals have proliferated during this period from an average of two in 1955 to almost 10 in 2020. We find a...

Corporate Purpose as a Competitive AdvantageVicente Salas-FumásUniversity of Zaragoza March 2023AbstractThere is a widely held belief that capitalism delivers superior social outcomes if the reason why corporations come into existence, their purpose, is to create social value rather than to...