The efficiency of social housing providers is a contentious issue. In the Netherlands, there is a widespread belief that housing corporations have substantial potential for efficiency improvements. A related question is whether scale influences efficiency, since recent decades have shown a trend of mergers among corporations. This paper offers a framework to assess the effects of scale and merg...

There is a vast amount of literature that considers the importance of the family as an institution. Little attention, however, has been given to the impact of the family structure and its dynamics on institutions. This limits our ability to understand distinct institutional developments—and hence growth—in the past and present. This paper supports this argument by highlighting the importance of...

In the 1970s, there were many reports of toxic hazards at corporate subsidiaries in the developing world that were no longer tolerated in the corporations' "home" countries. Following the chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, in 1984, leading corporations then announced that they applied uniform standards of worker and environmental protection worldwide. With globalization, corporations should al...

Elvin R. Latty, before turning his energies to law school administration, was the most innovative and resourceful of the pioneer draftsmen of close corporation legislation. This article is dedicated to him in recognition of the tremendous impact his thinking has had on the development of such legislation. This article first notes the general failure of legislatures, at least before 1960, to dif...

It is probable that ‘The Farm Beneath the Sand’ will come to stand for a revolution in archaeological investigation. The authors show that a core of soil from an open field can provide a narrative of grazing animals, human occupation and their departure, just using DNA and AMS dating. In this case the conventional archaeological remains were nearby, and the sequence obtained by the old methods ...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is both a core and emerging issue in management. Recently, many contributions were developed by scholars and practitioners to better understand the phenomenon and its practical relevance for the corporations. However, defining the phenomenon and the specific characteristics it assumes particular to individual corporations is challenging. Moreover, it is dir...

This paper, based on the international relations and international political economy literature, shows that the international management field has been influenced by certain national interests, particularly from the United States, and also that it reproduces a particular theory of globalization that benefits the interests of transnational corporations. One of the most concerning outcomes of thi...

Modern corporations depend heavily on information and communication technologies and are becoming increasingly interconnected locally and internationally. This interconnectedness and dependency on information technology make corporations vulnerable to cyber attacks. Corporate managers therefore need to understand the growing cyber war threats and implement appropriate strategies to mitigate the...

Multinational corporations have been at the front of the ERP movement since its origins. The globalization of markets had a profound effect on multinational corporations’ IT strategies, including ERP systems, to facilitate supporting the global outlook. Despite the increasing growth of global ERP systems, the focus of research has been mostly on the intraorganizational aspects. Implementation o...

The title of this article restricts our discussion to our colleges of agriculture and their agricultural training for commercial farm management. As most economics departments is not, in and of itself, adeare aware, however, the structure of the entire agriquate to this purpose" [2, p. 449]. He claims that the cultural business complex has changed greatly in "...typical undergraduate curriculum...