Purpose – The paper seeks to examine how the uniqueness and ethnicity of first names influence affective reactions to those names and their potential for hire. Design/methodology/approach – In study 1, respondents evaluated 48 names in terms of uniqueness and likeability, allowing us to...

Purpose – An employee's willingness to share knowledge may be contingent on whether the organization equitably fulfills its reward obligations. This paper seeks to examine how managers and organizations can be vehicles for managing psychological contract perceptions favoring knowledge sharing...

Three manufacturing facilities of an international consumer products company were studied to determine cross‐cultural differences in how managers address employee participation. Despite nearly identical products, a common company culture, and other similarities, European managers demonstrated...

Business school publications are widely criticized for their lack of managerial or teaching relevance. One reason for this criticism is that business school scholarship is typically evaluated purely in terms of one type of work: academic journal articles that are meant to be read by other...

Purpose – Dozens of peer‐reviewed, English language journals are currently published in our field. How ought we to evaluate them? This paper seeks to answer this question. Design/methodology approach – The paper utilizes both relevant literature and data on entrepreneurship journals. The...

Courts around the world have, in recent years, spent much time and effort in trying to solve the problem of the privilege against self‐incrimination in civil proceedings. In Reid v Howard , the High Court decided that, in Australia at least, this was time and effort wasted and that only...

In a recent article, Dr John Breslin discussed European developments concerning the privilege against self‐incrimination (‘the privilege’). His comments related primarily to the Saunders case and since then, in December 1996, the European Court of Human Rights has confirmed the European...

In 1993, the operation of Australia's financial reporting legislation was reviewed by a Senate Committee (‘the Committee’). Most of the Committee's recommendations were accepted in the Government Response, but the changes have yet to be enacted. This note discusses the existing regime and...

In 1993, the operation of Australia's financial reporting legislation was reviewed by a Senate Committee (‘the Committee’). It proposed various changes to the Financial Transactions Reports Act 1988 (FTRA), most of which were accepted in the Government Response in 1995. One of the few points...