Recently added articles from Journal of Global Business Issues:
Do Business Ethics Courses Work? The Effectiveness of Business Ethics Education: An Empirical Study
Apr 01, 2008; Jewe, Ronald D ... ABSTRACT This research study sought to determine the effect of business ethics education on the ethical attitudes of students enrolled in undergraduate business schools. A study of 561 undergraduate students, from 4 private universities, determined that the completion of a business ...
Active Learning Strategies for Computer Information Systems Education in Online Courses
Apr 01, 2008; Paetzold, Scott P; Melby, Nathaniel J ... ABSTRACT Active learning strategies have been established as effective methods to increase student interaction and knowledge retention in the traditional classroom environment. Recently, growth has been seen in the popularity of online learning due to the independence and convenience ...
Influence of Public Policy on Governance: Is there a Role for Shareholders as Stakeholders?
Apr 01, 2008; Nadeem, Mohammed ... ABSTRACT This study examines whether corporations should operate solely to maximize shareholder value or to serve a more broadly defined, diverse set of social interests. This paper reviews how American public policy toward corporations has rested upon different answers to this question, ...
Implementation of Michael Porter's Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility Model
Apr 01, 2008; Milliman, John; Ferguson, Jeffery; Sylvester, Ken ... ABSTRACT Michael Porter and Mark Kramer (2006) propose that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) should be linked to core business objectives that are leveraged for increased economic and social values. While the strategic CSR approach is intriguing less attention was placed on ...
Why Do Firms Issue Stock at a Discount? Dividend Reinvestment Plans: Shareholder Wealth and Capital Accumulation
Apr 01, 2008; Swartz, L Mick ... A dividend reinvestment plan with a discount sells shares cheaper than the market and incurs costs and possible loss of value for the firm. The empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that investors in these companies temporarily earn negative returns consistent with an increase in costs and ...
Enhancing Business Education: Bringing Ethics and Excellence to Classroom
Apr 01, 2008; Dhiman, Satinder ... ABSTRACT Business curriculum rarely provides any permeating and systematic model to garner a high sense of purpose or values or to nurture emotional intelligence. Our current traditional-aged students, the Millennials, want more from their life than money. They want meaning, purpose, ...
Expiration Day Effects: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan
Apr 01, 2008; Ju, Shiaw-En; Lo, Keng-Hsin; Wang, Kehluh ... ABSTRACT This study examines the expiration day effects of TAIEX futures and options. Empirical evidences show that abnormal volatility exists on the day before expiration day. Abnormal volume and abnormal return volatility are found in the first fifteen-minute window on the settlement ....
E-Democracy in Action: Websites of Finnish Members of Parliament
Apr 01, 2008; Suomi, Reima ... ABSTRACT Internet is a too valuable tool to be left just for the businessmen. Modern governmental activity can benefit a lot from the use of the Internet. Web-sites and active participating in web-based activities is and should be an integral activity in the life of political actors ....
Corporate Voluntary Disclosure: Empirical Evidence from Italy and the United States
Apr 01, 2008; Kumar, Kamalesh ... In recent years dissatisfaction with mandatory financial reporting has led investors, financial markets and other key stakeholder to demand from companies to voluntarily provide more comprehensive information about their long-term strategies and performance. The dissatisfaction with the quality ...
The Analysis of Technological Intra-Industrial Trade Competition and Trade Specialization
Apr 01, 2008; Wang, Teng Kun ... ABSTRACT This study analyzed the international technological competition in Information Communication Industry (ICI) to explore the phenomena of intra-industrial trade effects. Owing to the high growth rate in ICI industry, but with no guarantee of increasing profit from greater ...
At Work: Where Do We Go wrong?
Apr 01, 2008; Marques, Joan ... ABSTRACT: In a small empirical study, conducted among 40 members from a broad variety of L.A. based business corporations, who were also MBA students, some interesting findings emerged. The question asked to the population was, "What do you consider the three greatest problem areas in ...