infonet-economy

Workplace bullying is becoming an increasingly popular topic in research (see Branch, Ramsay & Barker, 2013) and the media (e.g., Time, Belsky, 2013; and Wall Street Journal, Silverman, 2013), perhaps reflecting public awareness of bullying as both prevalent and problematic. A specific area of employment in which bullying has been consistently documented, manifesting in various...

The article discusses the role of the UN Global Compact (UNGC) in the emerging global CSR infrastructure. It evaluates the debate around the effectiveness and legitimacy of the UNGC alongside the arguments of its supporters and critics and thereby introduces the Thematic Symposium contributions. The article further identifies three theoretical perspectives that are used by scholars...

The state governance system seems to be incapable to address sufficiently global public goods problems or to regulate global business so that the public interest is served. At the same time, international governmental organizations are unable to fill the governance gap while nongovernmental organizations(NGOs) criticize the behavior of business firms along their supply chains....

We empirically investigate how performance expectations affect top manager replacements. We do so by approximating performance expectations based on professional bookmaker betting odds in professional soccer, thus capturing the effect on the dismissal probability of team coaches. Controlling for team performance and unobserved team heterogeneity, we show that a one-standard-deviation...

One of the most frequently used procedures for measurement invariance testing is the multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA). Muthén and Asparouhov recently proposed a new approach to test for approximate rather than exact measurement invariance using Bayesian MGCFA. Approximate measurement invariance permits small differences between parameters otherwise constrained to be...