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Gender pay inequity: a question for corporate social responsibility?

Browne, Jude - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

This paper examines the extent to which contemporary business-led approaches designed to maximize female human capital are effective in reducing the gendered pay gap in the British labour market. In particular it asks whether the approach outlined by the latest Cabinet Office Review on women's...

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Varieties of Capitalism and the Learning Firm: Corporate Governance and Labour in the Context of Contemporary Developments in European and German Company Law

Zumbansen, Peer - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2007

each field are addressing organizational questions related to the business enterprise. While labour has eventually begun to … dynamics of the corporation, hereby building on the theory of the innovative enterprise, as developed by management theorists …, neither group has effectively addressed their common blind spot: a better understanding of the business enterprise itself. In …

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The Evolution of the Corporation: Organization, Finance, Knowledge and Corporate Social Responsibility

Zumbansen, Peer - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2008

This paper, which selectively focuses on the contested concept of Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR], forms part of a larger research project on the evolution of corporate governance. This research posits the evolution of corporate governance along three historical paradigms: first, the...

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Firm Ownership and Philanthropy

Chai, D.H. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

This paper empirically examines the relationship between firm ownership structure and corporate charitable donations. Using a panel data set of 1,017 listed Korean firms, we find that larger firms with higher advertising intensity and lower export intensity 'give' relatively more, suggesting...

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Multinationals in Developing Communities: how EU Multinationals build Social Capital in Poland

Jones, Ian W.; Nyland, Chris M.; Pollitt, Michael G. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2004

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is usually an area that does not lend itself easily to inter-company or cross-country analysis. This paper is an attempt to provide some metrics of multinational CSR drawing on the recent literature on social capital. We look at the self-reporting of social...

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Multinationals in their communities: A social capital approach to corporate citizenship projects

Jones, Ian; Pollitt, Michael; Bek, David - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2006

The objectives of this research are to provide new ways of thinking about and measuring the extent and effectiveness of multinational company efforts to contribute to society via their corporate citizenship (CC) (or corporate social responsibility - CSR) programmes. It uses as its method of...

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Reflexive law, corporate social responsibility and the evolution of labour standards: the case of working time

Barnard, Catherine; Deakin, Simon; Hobbs, Richard - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2004

Through an empirical study of working time in the United Kingdom, we explore the scope for initiatives based on corporate social responsibility (CSR) to engender voluntary action by employers to raise labour standards. Our evidence suggests that a CSR-based approach faces considerable problems...

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How do Multinationals Build Social Capital? Evidence from South Africa.

Jones, I; Nyland, C.M; Pollitt, M.G - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

This paper looks at the self-reporting of social engagement by multinational firms in South Africa, developing previous measures of social capital to fit the unique context of the multinational firm in particular mapping the configurations of declared engagement and the firms' provision. It...

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False dawn for CSR? Shifts in regulatory policy and the response of the corporate and financial sectors in Britain

Deakin, Simon; Hobbs, Richard - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2006

We present a model of CSR as a set of mechanisms for aligning corporate behaviour with the interests of society in reducing externalities and promoting a sustainable corporate sector. These mechanisms include voluntary action by companies to go above minimum legal standards, with the aim of...

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Flexible or not? The Comply-or-Explain Principle in UK and German Corporate Governance

Sanderson, P.; Seidl, D.; Roberts, J.; Krieger, B. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

The current financial crisis has given rise to calls to toughen considerably the codes of corporate governance put in place in many countries to regulate corporate behaviour (e.g. the UK Combined Code). These codes vary slightly in form but tend to contain a mix of non-discretionary regulations...

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