This empirical survey is based on a questionnaire which was distributed to 6,000 medium-sized German companies with international activities. The analyses included responses from a total of 533 enterprises. The areas examined include the importance of globalization, the motives for and the...

The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) is a Global Public Policy Network supporting ten universal principles in the areas of human rights, labor standards, environmental protection, and anti-corruption. Networks such as the UNGC are an organizational form with distinct structural properties...

This article analyzes the underinvestigated field of strategy process management in German multinational companies (MNCs). Whereas the emphasis of research in the field of strategic management has traditionally been laid on the investigation of the strategy content, the knowledge of the strategy...

We critically assess integrative social contracts theory (ISCT) and show that the concept particularly lacks of moral justification of substantive hypernorms. By drawing on Habermasian philosophy, in particular discourse ethics and its recent application in the theory of deliberative democracy,...