<title>Abstract</title> Although any firm operates in a local environment, which includes specific economic, social and cultural contexts, there is still a lack of studies connecting culture and values with operations strategies and practices. This paper attempts to explore a look at how cultural dimensions...

This paper examines cultural and leadership variables associated with corporate social responsibility values that managers apply to their decision-making. In this longitudinal study, we analyze data from 561 firms located in 15 countries on five continents to illustrate how the cultural...

Greek manufacturing firms suffer from low productivity and competitiveness, especially when measured against their counterparts in the other member states of the EEC. The widely-held belief is that the core of the problem is managerial performance, and that it could be improved by careful...

The Nature of Policy and its Value Personnel policy is a declared mode of action for the future. It should be concerned with the future rather than the past. The objective is to set a frame work, within which other people operate, using their own decisions. It is not the same as a set of...

Downsizing remains a topic of great interest to both academics and practitioners. Yet, the impact of layoff decisions on perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has hardly been studied. We examine the impact of responsibility of business leaders making these layoff decisions, and...

This chapter explores the perceptions held about “good” corporate governance (GCG) in three different transforming economies of Central and Eastern Europe [CEE] (East Germany, Estonia, and Hungary). Forty-nine interviews were conducted with corporate governance experts from various...

Research on corporate responsibility (CR), a topic that has grown in importance over the past few decades, has focused primarily on developed countries. In this study, we look to the future and direct our attention to the values/attitudes of business professionals in two high-growth economies of...

Is the societal-level of analysis sufficient today to understand the values of those in the global workforce? Or are individual-level analyses more appropriate for assessing the influence of values on ethical behaviors across country workforces? Using multi-level analyses for a 48-society...

<title>Abstract</title> Both the popular press and academic literature tend to consider organizational change as a step‐by‐step process leading to success. This paper examines the suitability of the theory that guides the implementation of change at company level for organizations in countries in...