In this paper, I determine the compensation component of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) contract that can improve CSR rating the most by considering two types of the contract. Based on my results, I find that for objective contracts and subjective contracts, the best-performing...

We examine executive compensation contracts that are directly and explicitly linked to corporate social performance. In particular, we study two types of such contracts, subjective and objective, and the CSR-related variables on which compensation is contracted. We attempt to find which type and...

This interview concerns doing business in China given the rapid changes and industrial development of that country. This report is based on an interview with Robert T. Martin, Managing Director & Regional Executive of BMO Bank of Montreal in June, 2005. Recent federal government financial reform...

Brand names and brand equity are recognized as important intangible assets among firm managers in the global food supply chain. This analysis investigates the long-run potential of brand equity among food processors to actually create real options for a firm's management. The empirical analysis...

This paper measures rural poverty in Hubei Province and Inner Mongolia in China. The poverty lines we derived by Ravallion's method differ from the official Chinese poverty lines. The official pan-country poverty line underestimates rural poverty in Hubei Province and overestimates rural poverty...

This paper studies the application of the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) in the crop insurance industry under climate variability. We designed a model to help farmers decide about buying crop insurance products to reduce climate and price risks. The objective is to minimize farmers' return...

This interview concerns doing business in China given the rapid changes and industrial development of that country. This report is based on an interview with Robert T. Martin, Managing Director & Regional Executive of BMO Bank of Montreal in June, 2005. Recent federal government financial reform...

As a fundamental logistics service, the express delivery (ED) industry provides production and consumption activities to maintain efficient supply chain operations. It plays an important role in promoting industrial development and maintaining daily life and consumption. This study examined the...

This paper measures rural poverty in Hubei Province and Inner Mongolia in China. The poverty lines we derived by Ravallion's method differ from the official Chinese poverty lines. The official pan-country poverty line underestimates rural poverty in Hubei Province and overestimates rural poverty...

A pair of enantiomers with a rearranged dimeric phenylethanol skeleton, namely ( ±)-alashinol K ( 1a and 1b ), were isolated from the stem barks of Syringa pinnatifolia . The structures were established using IR, UV, MS, and NMR data, and their absolute configurations were resolved by...