Abstract
The essence of this issue of JHV, is again, truly international and diverse. Values associated with local development have become global in nature, but how do we make the local institutions embrace such values? Schoburgh, in her crisply written paper, shows how development committees are expected to work in partnership with local authorities, but justifiably asks: are development committees fit for this purpose? Patnaik asks similar questions about local categorisation of values in terms in regional cinemas and engages us in a discourse where the notion of regional cinema gets reinforced by the idea of the local. Ferriera et al., who had earlier published an interesting work with us on motivation of volunteers, share their recent work which argues that not only there is a relationship between funds and performance, but fund diversity play a critical role on performance. Asibe et al., show us the relationship between cultural values and the performance of the textile industry. Narayanan and Murphy highlight the importance of organisational climate with both destructive and constructive deviance behaviour in different cultural settings. Badr-El-Din Aboul-Ela does a wonderful job at analysing the relationship between workplace compassion and job performance. Finally, this issue is happy to carry another paper by Rambu after his work on axiological illnesses published in this journal in 2015; this one adds to his earlier work on the concept of ‘axiological memory’ and Weber’s contribution.