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...

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...