Richard C. Hoffman

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of chief executive officers (CEOs) of major US corporations was conducted to compare the differences between the two constituencies concerning issues of relevance for the future.

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and managerial effectiveness among three cultures and found that self-awareness of different managerial skills varied by culture, and that selfawareness of interactive skills may be crucial relative to effectiveness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine some factors that enabled the new industrial corporation to expand its role in society and describe how some of the institutional characteristics of the modern corporation itself provided some opportunities or challenges in terms of gaining social legitimacy, which led to the development of such concepts of corporate social responsibility as: public relations, service, trusteeship, and public welfare.

TL;DR: This article examined the actual growth and development of franchising globally during the 1990s and found that the business sectors experiencing the most franchising growth are retail and restaurants, and that franchising firms tend to export their business formats to neighboring countries or to countries with similar cultural characteristics.