KIMEP University

About: KIMEP University is a education organization based out in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Corporate governance & Government. The organization has 185 authors who have published 426 publications receiving 5098 citations.

Teaching the Sensitive Stuff: Does Industry Matter? Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability

Abstract: In this chapter, Teaching the sensitive stuff: Does industry matter? Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability, Harald Knudsen and Alessandro Frigerio discuss the relation between business behaviour and morality It is a provocative chapter that makes important links with CSR debates The message on the core themes of Higher Education and Sustainability lies in making students aware of how misuse of power and influence can develop within businesses The chapter argues against a theoretical approach that assumes that the market functions equally well in all situations Rather, experience shows that industry matters

Assessing the effects of personality traits on the service quality of Korean logistics personnel

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between personality traits and service quality perceptions of the employees of logistics organisations. This study administered the Big-Five scale to derive the measurements of personality traits and the SERVQUAL (RATER) scale to measure service quality perception. Data for this study were collected through an online (web-based) survey from personnel of many logistics organisations in South Korea. The results of this study confirm that correlations between these variables are statistically significant. This study provides additional insights about the relationships and practical applications of these variables. Recommendations are made for the strategic integration of marketing and human resource management practices.

Cross-Sector Spillover Effects of Trade Liberalization

Abstract: This work studies the effects of trade liberalization in a two-country two-sector model, with monopolistic competition and heterogeneous firms in one sector and perfect competition in the other. It is established that the spillover effect of the reduction in a sector's variable trade cost on the average productivity of firms in the other sector is sector dependent. The average productivity of firms increases and the number of firms decreases in the comparative advantage sector in response to the trade liberalization in the other sector. Conversely, the average productivity of firms decreases and the number of firms increases in the comparative disadvantage sector.

Head of a Young Woman: The thrilling recovery of a flying Picasso

Abstract: The case of the illicit export of a Picasso painting by its owner and its confiscation and recovery by French and Spanish authorities provides an interesting example of the complexities of the transnational criminal, civil, and administrative law protection of national cultural heritage and of the ongoing efforts to achieve useful legal instruments at the European level, which foster and harmonize the current and often informal mechanisms of cooperation and judicial assistance among the different domestic enforcing agencies. It also attempts to show how Spanish authorities have made a legitimate, but possibly overreaching, use of existing European Union law in order to recover and appropriate a valuable work of art.