Humanistic management: a history of a management paradigm from the human dignity / Osmar Arandia, Consuelo García-de-la-Torre -- Humanistic management: a balancing act towards a better world / Michael Pirson -- Corporate social responsibility based on dignity and well-being as keys to the...

This chapter analyzes the practices of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability in Chilean small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This work follows an explorative and descriptive methodology that uses analysis of secondary information as data collection instrument. Results...

Purpose: This paper aims to propose future public policy guidelines (FPPG) in sustainable regional development for Guaviare (Colombia) – a territory affected by environmental and social distress – for the year 2035. Design/methodology/approach: Following collective action theory and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper revisits the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth. Design/methodology/approach: Using a cross-country panel data set of 61 countries in the period 2002–2014, this paper empirically analyzes the differences in contribution to economic growth....

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine and interpret the characteristics of social responsibility in general, and business responsibility in particular, that were evident during a period in European history that was plagued by widespread social problems and change. Based on that...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the situational and dispositional determinants of job satisfaction in environments created by implementing employee-supportive lean. Design/methodology/approach The research uses a questionnaire to measure the determinants of job satisfaction...