A volume on leadership would be seriously incomplete without a contribution on corporate social responsibility (CSR). The essays on CSR in the present work offer insights that are important in this new century of corporate corruption and moral challenges. I shall take up the gauntlet by asking us to think more carefully about what we mean by the term, “corporate social responsibility.” There is...

Economies that do not have a corporate tax system in their historical heritage sought to establish with independence. The structure means the financing free-market reforms of transition economies. study aims evaluate current 31 Also, relationship between corruption and total burden, GDP per capita, openness, economic freedom, corporate-income-consumption rates 24 economies were examined effecti...

Received: 17 October 2003 Revised: 18 March 2004 Accepted: 29 June 2005 Online publication date: 19 October 2005 Abstract The devastating economic effects of the Asian financial crisis and US corporate scandals have underscored the need to strengthen corporate governance provisions. Although cronyism has been suggested as a leading cause of the two crises, it has received little attention from ...

 International construction companies have settled in Africa and especially Nigeria, to compete for infrastructural projects, in a bid to extend their services across their borders. The trans-border extension of the services offered by these international multi-nationals exposes them to the political risk factors pertinent with the host country. In order to survive the harsh realities of the po...

This study considers the influence of work experience Russian top managers on willingness to stimulate innovative processes in companies, including using at a certain stage some corruption schemes bypass bureaucratic barriers.Using logit model based enterprise surveys carried out by World Bank, data small and medium-sized businesses were analyzed.It was revealed that presence "corruption compet...

We examine the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on several measures of socially responsible management practices. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability reporting laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases. We also document that both sustainable development and employee training become a higher prio...