ISSWOV aims  to advance the study of work and organizational values and related aspects of  the organization; to encourage the exchange of ideas and interaction among scholars engaged in these topics; to collect, generate, preserve, decipher, and disseminate data and information relating to work and organizational values, and to encourage and initiate publications concerning research on these  themes. 
  
ISSWOV was founded in Budapest, 1988, by the participants of the first International Conference on Work Values organized by Professors Dov Elizur from Bar Ilan University,  and Istvan  Magyari-Beck, from  the Budapest University of Economics. Since then, scientists from all corners of  the globe gather every two years in a new conference. 

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