Electric Cooperatives are in crisis, owing to management scandals and environmental controversies. This paper argues that a return to fundamental cooperative principles is in order and can be accomplished without compromising the independence and flexibility enjoyed by management at these...

There is an identifiable and distinct body of law and administrative regulations on state enterprise governance, anticorruption and public sector ethics emerging in the Commonwealth Caribbean. The law and administrative structures are still developing but they are sufficiently well developed to...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship that Ethical Work Climates and National Culture have on business faculty in universities. Most studies involving ethics focus on students or professions outside academia. We felt that looking at the teaching profession and in particular...

The purpose of our exploratory study is to describe the characteristics of a sample of Central and East European students in business and engineering from their cultural assumption perspective. The cluster-distinctive cultural practices are: High Power Distance, In-group and Institutional...

We examine the role of corporate culture in M&As by utilizing a unique corporate social responsibility (CSR) dataset, providing in-depth information on multiple dimensions of organizational culture in 22 developed markets. In accordance with the prediction of the culture clash theory, a wider...

We analyze the effect of CEO food culture on corporate innovation using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2000 to 2016. We extend benign masochism and behavioral consistency theories to determine that a CEO with Szechuan cuisine food culture is positively associated with corporate...

The current article traces back the scientific interest to cultural levels across the organization at the University of National and World Economy, and especially in the series of Economic Alternatives - an official scientific magazine, issued by this Institution. Further, a wider and critical...

This study examines the role of codes of ethics in reducing the extent to which managers act opportunistically in reporting earnings. Corporate codes of ethics, by clarifying the boundaries of ethical corporate behaviors and making relevant social norms more salient, have the potential to deter...

We investigate the impacts of cultural environment on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the U.S. To measure the cultural environment of a firm, we use several variables of cultural dimension widely adopted in the literature, such as the percentage of religious adherents and the percentage of...

Hofstede’s cultural dimensions are used to analyze the Corruption Perception Index of 47 countries. Using a linear regression model with the CPI as the dependent variable and culture as the independent variables, 65% of the perceptions of corruption is explained by four of Hofstede's cultural...