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Ruth Alas

Researcher at Estonian Business School

Publications -  137
Citations -  1926

Ruth Alas is an academic researcher from Estonian Business School. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate social responsibility & Organizational commitment. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 134 publications receiving 1761 citations.

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A twenty-first century assessment of values across the global workforce

David A. Ralston, +50 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Schwartz Values Survey (SVS) data from samples of business managers and professionals across 50 societies that are culturally and socioeconomically diverse was used to identify the SVS dimensions that have cross-culturally internally reliable structures and withinsociety agreement for business professionals.
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Ethics in countries with different cultural dimensions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared ethical standards in countries with different cultural dimensions based on empirical data from 12 countries and found that dimensions of national culture could serve as predictors of the ethical standards desired in a specific society.
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Organizational Culture Types as Predictors of Corporate Social Responsibility

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated connections between corporate social responsibility and organizational culture types by conducting a survey in Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Czech, Finnish, German and Slovakian enterprises.
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Organizational learning and resistance to change in Estonian companies

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted interviews with managers in 137 Estonian companies concerning changes implemented and learning outcomes and found that the relationship between organizational change and learning is seen differently in a country in transition.
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Societal-level versus individual-level predictions of ethical behavior: a 48-society study of collectivism and individualism

David A. Ralston, +48 more
TL;DR: In this article, the utility of both the societal-level and individual-level dimensions of collectivism and individualism values for predicting ethical behaviors of business professionals was investigated. But, the authors found that values at the individual level make a more significant contribution to explaining variance in ethical behaviors than do values at a societal level.