We discus some frequently neglected issues relating to corporate communication infrastructures. The perception of services like e-mail as infrastructural -and thus less interesting -lies at the heart of corporate ignorance regarding their strategic capabilities. This may cause major problems in the near future, when inadequate communication infrastructures may hamper the successful uptake of st...

The part of credit spread that is not explained by corporate credit risk forecasts future economic activity. I show that the link with aggregate business risk and bond liquidity risk explains this finding. Once I project spreads on these two risk factors, which are readily measurable with the daily frequency, in addition to corporate credit risk, the forecasting power of the residual spread red...

The Corporate Social Responsibility has become an essential factor involved in the process of customers choosing products or services. It focuses on the common place notion of “think global, act local”. While Corporate Social Responsibility research has been conducted in many industries, the food sector has been largely ignored. Especially, the agri-food sector has a strong impact on the econom...

A core concept in discussions about technological support for knowledge management is the Corporate Memory. A Corporate or Organizational Memory can be characterized as a comprehensive computer system which captures a company's accumulated know-how and other knowledge assets and makes them available to enhance the e ciency and e ectiveness of knowledge-intensive work processes. The successful d...

Serious Games are games that educate, train and inform using entertainment principles and creativity. Serious Games have provided a body of literature related to the potentials for application in different fields such as government, educational and healthcare management. The use of Serious Games in corporate settings is extensively studied and investigated by researchers. However, less investig...

Great expectations are being placed on firms to act with increasing social responsibility, which is adding a new dimension to the role of management and the vision of companies. Meanwhile, society is looking more closely at the impact of business on the public. Thus, the notion of the corporate citizenship is a significant transition in corporate consciousness as organizations look beyond their...

Existing research suggests that market misvaluations affect corporate investment, often leading to suboptimal investment. I examine whether earnings smoothing reduces the impact of market misvaluations on corporate investment and in turn enhances investment efficiency. I find that earnings smoothing has a strong negative effect on the sensitivity of corporate investment to stock prices. Further...

We examine the relationship between employees’ participation in corporate-sponsored volunteerism and their organizational commitment. In two different organizational settings the psychological functions served by participating in corporate-sponsored volunteer programs were shown to be differentially predictive of employees’ organizational commitment. The more employees volunteered based on func...