Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: M. Todd Royle Author-Name: Jie G. Fowler Title: CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN ACCOUNTABILITY AND DIVERSITY: AN EXPLICATION OF ACCOUNTABILITY, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND BELONGING IN ORGANIZATIONAL TRAINING Abstract: Accountability is fundamental to proper social functioning, promotes transparency, and directs individuals' actions. This research compares and contrasts major conceptualizations in contemporary scholarship. It presents an overview of accountability, which can be integrated into training regimens in the workplace, and describes what accountability provides regarding individuals' attitudes and work-related behaviors. In addition, this work evaluates research in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Specifically, we analyze how training and accountability promote these attributes. Ultimately, this research contributes to organizational training literature by bridging the gaps between accountability and diversity-related issues. Classification-JEL: M10, M12, M14 Keywords: Accountability, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, DEIB, Training Journal: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research Pages: 1-20 Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Year: 2023 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/ijmmre/ijmmr-v16n1-2023/IJMMR-V16N1-2022-1.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:ijmmre:v:16:y:2023:i:1:p:1-20 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Art Barnard Author-Name: Dennis Kopf Title: START-UP ABROAD: AN ABDUCTIVE ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN EXPAT-PRENEURS IN GERMANY Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the motivations and concerns of the expat-preneur and the German government’s actions and plans to attract them. This paper uses an abductive research approach using a ‘case–pool’ investigative design. Thirty depth interviews were conducted of expat-preneurs, government officials, innovation leaders, and entrepreneurship academics within Germany. Expat-preneurs were found to be a distinct group of self-initiated expatriates and were also quite distinct from typical American domestic entrepreneurs. Quality of life, business opportunity and government incentives were important for the expat-preneurs. The strengths and weaknesses of the German community-driven entrepreneurship apparatus were also discovered. Classification-JEL: M13 Keywords: Expatriate Entrepreneurs, Transnational Entrepreneurs, Expat-preneurs, German Start-Ups, Abductive Research, Entrepreneurial Culture Journal: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research Pages: 21-34 Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Year: 2023 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/ijmmre/ijmmr-v16n1-2023/IJMMR-V16N1-2022-2.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:ijmmre:v:16:y:2023:i:1:p:21-34 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Kathleen Wilburn Title: UNITED NATIONS COMMUNICATION ON PROGRESS EMERGES AS THE PRIMARY ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE REPORTING CENTER Abstract: This paper will identify the growing demands for transparency of social and sustainability behavior by business. It will review the new regulations for business by governments and how the information is being reported. The problem identified in the reporting mechanisms is the fact that they do not provide results that can be compared because the reports focus on different measurements. The reporting mechanisms will be discussed, and the paper will then describe a new reporting website, Communication on Progress, produced by the United Nations that will solve the problem. It will make reporting Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals and results more accessible at a global level and will allow comparisons among companies. Classification-JEL: M00 Keywords: Environmental, Social, and Governance, Reporting, ESG, UN Global Compact Journal: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research Pages: 35-47 Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Year: 2023 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/ijmmre/ijmmr-v16n1-2023/IJMMR-V16N1-2022-3.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:ijmmre:v:16:y:2023:i:1:p:35-47 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Benedict E. DeDominicis Title: THE SOCIAL IDENTITY DYNAMICS OF THE EUROPEANIZATION OF BULGARIA: RECONSTRUCTING GRAMSCIAN HEGEMONY IN A POST-NEOCOLONIAL BALKAN NATION-STATE Abstract: This analysis proposes that a significant source of the systemic sources of so-called grand corruption and strategic corruption in Bulgaria lies in its long-term history of imperial and colonial subordination. It raises the epistemological issues of the perceptual basis for the identification of corruption. Corruption is a weaponized political label favoring particular political topographic characteristics and trends that support a regional international political hierarchical order, in this case American hegemony. The Bulgarian national community’s complex component community identity profile is a product of generations of external domination which this analysis highlights. This legacy includes authority legitimation challenges that contradict establishment authority claims that their domination and control provide an invisible public good in terms of social order. Institutionalized habituated attitudinal predispositions among the public emphasize functionally the state authority as self-serving in its domestic control. The national state authority represents the control interests of an external hegemony. This domestic control ultimately serves the hegemonic interests of an external power, e.g., the Ottoman sultanate, the Soviet Union, or NATO/EU. Bulgarian constituency group and individual acquisition of greater social status via social creativity in relation to the state authority displays orientations towards serving the domestic national representative of the alien imperialist/colonialist hegemon. Classification-JEL: D73, F54, H11, H41, H56, H83, H87, M48, N44 Keywords: Bulgaria, Corruption, European Union, Hegemony, Imperialism, Social Identity Theory, Soviet Union, United States Journal: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research Pages: 49-88 Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Year: 2023 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/ijmmre/ijmmr-v16n1-2023/IJMMR-V16N1-2022-4.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:ijmmre:v:16:y:2023:i:1:p:49-88 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Zhenpan Wang Author-Name: Sulin Chung Author-Name: Xiuzhu Gu Title: CONSUMER CHANGES INDUCED BY ADOPTION OF THE INTERNET OF THINGS Abstract: The Internet of Things is experiencing rapid development in China and has huge market potential. There is little existing literature examining consumer cognitive changes or behavioral changes induced by Internet of Things technologies. This study is the first attempt at exploratory analysis. The purpose of this study is to examine the predicted and influential relationships between value perception change, satisfaction change, privacy concerns, and changes in word-of-mouth and loyalty caused by the Internet of Things. The results imply that customer value perception changes and satisfaction changes predict word-of-mouth changes and loyalty changes, and there is a positive relationship between them. The findings have ramifications for businesses, as well as for theoretical and practical Internet of Things research. Classification-JEL: 0310 Keywords: Cognitive Changes, Behavioral Changes, Internet of Things Journal: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research Pages: 89-97 Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Year: 2023 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/ijmmre/ijmmr-v16n1-2023/IJMMR-V16N1-2022-5.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:ijmmre:v:16:y:2023:i:1:p:89-97 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ana Isabel Ordonez Parada Author-Name: Jesus Saenz Olivas Author-Name: Xochitl Bustillos Varela Author-Name: Yolanda Rosales Manjarrez Title: INTRAPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INCUBATORS AND BUSINESS CREATION: EVIDENCE FROM MEXICO Abstract: The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate aspects that determine the probability an individual presents high levels of intrapreneurship. An intrapreneur worker combines ideas and uses existing resources to promote new lines of business, seeking sustainable economic benefits. The organization is renewed from within improving its competitiveness. Intrapreneur skills and competences were analyzed, as well as education level, gender, type of business activity and parental entrepreneurship influence, in owners and collaborators of companies generated in a business incubator. We examine data from a population sample of 75 companies incubated in the Business Center of the School of Accounting and Administration of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua. The research is an exploratory, applied, field study, with bibliographic support. A logistic regression model was developed. Results obtained indicate that academic degree and the offspring of entrepreneurship indicate a strong probability an individual presents high levels of intrapreneurship. Classification-JEL: D83, H3, I22, I23, M13 Keywords: Companies, Intrapreneurship, Skills, Competencies Journal: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research Pages: 99-107 Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Year: 2023 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/ijmmre/ijmmr-v16n1-2023/IJMMR-V16N1-2022-6.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:ijmmre:v:16:y:2023:i:1:p:99-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Azucena Herrera Author-Name: Jorge Gonzalez Title: PERCEIVED IMPACTS OF THE DEREGULATION OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS' LABOR COMPETENCIES IN THE USA Abstract: Increased Mexican migration to the United States has led to policy challenges in both countries, with ethical, social, human, health, and labor implications. For this reason, bilateral relations between these countries have long-standing needs in legal, human, and labor matters. There is an urgent need to find formulas and solutions to confront multiple challenges. This study explores the professional profile of Mexican immigrants in the USA. Its purpose is to describe the job profile of Mexican immigrants. A random sample of individuals was interviewed before crossing from the USA to Mexico, through the Juarez II International Bridge, from Laredo, Texas to New Laredo, Tamaulipas. This qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive study identifies Mexican immigrants' labor competencies. The findings could assist public and private organizations to evaluate and implement public programs for labor insertion and reinsertion of Mexican migrants on both sides of the USA-Mexico border. Classification-JEL: M120, M510 Keywords: Labor Competencies, Job Profile, Immigrants, Human Resource Management Journal: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research Pages: 109-125 Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Year: 2023 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/ijmmre/ijmmr-v16n1-2023/IJMMR-V16N1-2022-7.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:ijmmre:v:16:y:2023:i:1:p:109-125