American Journal of Business: Volume 18 Issue 2

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Table of contents

Employee Involvement to Improve Safety in the Workplace: An Ethical Imperative

Sonny S. Ariss

Companies in general have not lived up to their ethical responsibility in assisting workers in decreasing workrelated accidents and illnesses. This paper presents a systematic…

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An Investigation of Poison Pill Securities, Long‐Term Debt, and the Wealth of Shareholders

James Forjan, Bonnie Van Ness

Poison pill securities can be used to deter takeover activity by making the acquisition cost prohibitive or to increase bargaining power of target firms. Poison pills, which are…

The Meaning Behind the Message: Climate Perceptions and the Psychological Contract

Jill Kickul, Matthew A. Liao‐Troth

It has been argued that the social and informational cues within the work environment need to be investigated to better understand and identify a nomological network underlying…

The Perceived Impact of Outsourcing on Organizational Performance

Dean Elmuti

Outsourcing is the strategic use of outside resources to perform activities that are usually handled by internal staff and resources. By using a well‐managed outsourcing…

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Perceptions of Women as Managers in Chile and the United States

Crystal L. Owen, Robert F. Scherer, Michael Z. Sincoff, Mark Cordano

The objective of the current study was to determine if stereotypical perceptions of women as managers existed among men and women in two different cultural settings, the U.S. and…

The Social Responsibility of Management: A Reprise

Philip R. P. Coelho, James E. McClure, John A. Spry

Frederick R. Post’s response (2003) to our paper (“The Social Responsibility of Corporate Management: A Classical Critique,” 2003) is factually mistaken, inconsistent, and…

The Social Responsibility of Management: A Critique of the Shareholder Paradigm and Defense of Stakeholder Primacy

Frederick R. Post

Shareholder Theory allows management to ignore the interests of the other constituencies while pursuing its own narrow self‐interest under the guise (the ethical facade) of…

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Cover of American Journal of Business

ISSN:

1935-5181

Online date, start – end:

1986

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr David Burnie