The emergence of new institutional economics (NIE) has advanced our understanding of general economics, the firm, and the limitations to neoclassical models. As a result, NIE concepts have been increasingly applied to cooperatives to understand cooperatives’ diversity, purpose, issues, and...

Firms are increasingly shaken by the challenges triggered by today’s unpredictable landscapes. In this context, they are constantly searching for new ways to address fast-moving marketplaces more rapidly and with greater flexibility. This chapter investigates how strategic agility helps...

The social licence literature contains two quite different accounts of the concept. Sometimes social licence is presented as an essentially empirical matter; sometimes it is portrayed as having normative significance. Both advocates and critics assume that the normative version is easy to...

We explore how a recent major change to the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) Code of Ethics has redefined professional responsibility of professional accountants throughout the globe. Already adopted by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) in 2017, a new...

The concept of "quality of public finances" (QPF) covers many qualitative and structural issues of fiscal policy. This chapter traces the origins of the concept of QPF to the Lisbon Strategy and the subsequent EPC Working Group on "Quality of Public Finances" (2004-2007). At its core, the QPF...

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of two types of negative ties, namely perceived negative ties and intended negative ties, on the two types of employee work outcomes, namely job performance and ethical voice. In addition, the chapter discusses the role of personal reputation...

The main purpose of this study is to measure financial literacy of individual pension system customers in Ankara and to find out factors affecting financial literacy while acquiring additional information on financial decisions of individual pension system customers. The results show that the...

The research analyzes the convergence of several socioeconomic indicators in a sample of 137 countries over the period 1990–2019. Applying log t -convergence tests, it finds that socioeconomic indicators’ convergence is divergent. Measuring seven different indicators, there are only two...