Corporate training services have grown into a key approach for improving performance and a substantial industry in recent years due to increased job requirements, workforce flexibility and lifelong learning. Transfer-oftraining is a key output of these services, defined as the application and generalization of new competences at work acquired in training. Corporate trainings are exemplars of hi...

This study uses data on campaign contributions and methods of network analysis to investigate the significance of interlocking directorates for political cohesion among corporate elites. Using quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) regression, the author shows that social ties formed through common membership on corporate boards contribute more to similarity of political behavior than commonaliti...

Research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has tended to focus on external stakeholders and outcomes, revealing little about internal effects that might also help explain CSR-firm performance linkages and the impact that corporate marketing strategies can have on internal stakeholders such as employees. The two studies (N = 1,116 and N = 2,422) presented in this article draw on theory fr...

An unrelentingly challenging business environment has also prompted corporate banking clients to take measures to ensure that they have an efficient working-capital ecosystem to support their local treasuries. This trend is also forcing banks to consider new transaction banking models, especially around cost optimization. These circumstances have made e-invoicing an increasingly popular topic o...

The fact that managers pursue corporate growth and diversification as a primary objective, and that this objective might be contrary to other corporate goals, is well established. For example, Adams and Brock in The Bigness Complex note that “America’s corporate giants have not performed well over the last fifteen years...Bigness has not delivered the goods, and thus fact is no longer a secret”...

Firms need to continuously sense their business environment for being able to seize emerging opportunities and react against threats, such as loss of reputation. Corporate reputation is of particular importance as a valuable intangible asset. Thus, managing a firm’s corporate reputation as well as monitoring the reputation of its competitors may support sensing and seizing capabilities of a fir...

the asia-pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. at the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

Numerous financial decision support systems have been proposed in the literature that analyze corporate disclosures or financial news. However, these sources of corporate information are likely to be filtered before being published, either by investor relations departments or journalists. This bears the risk that the language is adapted to bias a decision support systems’ evaluations. Thus, unf...

Scholars have proffered a number of theoretical explanations for the phenomenon that corporate ownership is diffuse in some countries and highly concentrated in others. One explanation, the social democracy theory, holds that leftist ideology weakens a variety of corporate governance mechanisms and thus prevents the separation of ownership from control in social democracies, where leftist ideol...

After years of research CBR has now reached a state where it is possible to bring CBR techniques in contact with real applications. One of the areas of main interest are the so called help-desks. There and in the related field of service support there is a need for integrating CBR techniques with others, such as databases and information retrieval, in order to access the sources of information ...