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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.

Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …

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Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement. Keine Nachhaltigkeit ohne ökonomischen Erfolg. Kein ökonomischer Erfolg ohne Nachhaltigkeit

Figge, Frank - EconWPA - 2004

Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert. Hierbei bezieht sie erstmals zwei unterschiedliche, sich ergänzende Bewertungsverfahren ein: Sie nimmt erstens das Konzept des Environmental Shareholder Value auf und...

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Impacts of Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

Australian, state and territory regimes came under review for the Commission’s inquiry into native vegetation and biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that the cost of farm regulations could be reduced if...

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Reaping Benefits from Management Research: Lessons from the Forecasting Principles Project, with Reply to Commentators

Armstrong, JS; Pagell, Ruth - EconWPA - 2005

forecasting principles project, which was designed to summarize all useful knowledge in forecasting, we found that journals have … sources that summarize advice (principles) from research; journals do not meet this need. To increase the rate of progress in … developing and communicating principles, researchers, journal editors, textbook writers, software developers, web site designers …

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Incentives for Developing and Communicating Principles: A Reply

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2005

grounded principles. As a result, academics often conduct their research as an intellectual exercise with little concern as to …

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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development. The Case of Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and the quality of economic development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing different aspects of economic development and...

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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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Globalisation and Human Development

McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001

Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented debate on globalisation. Attention has focused on the origin and main features of globalisation and its potential impact on world economic, political and social order. This research and policy debate is understandable, as the pace and consequences of...

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A HUMAN DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO THE STATUS OF DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH EAST INDIA

Nayak, Prof. Purusottam - EconWPA - 2005

Concept of human development and its measurement as introduced by UNDP in the first Human Development Report 1990 is an approach to measure economic development. It is a composite measure of economic progress and a better substitute to Per Capita Income (measure) that could neither capture nor...

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A STUDY ABOUT POVERTY, HEALTH, EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEPRIVATION IN INDIA

sivakumarmarimuthu; sarvalingam - EconWPA - 2004

This paper deals with poverty, health, education and human deprivation among Indian States. Human development evaluates development in conglomerative perspective where as human depeivation analyse it in deprivational perspective. Deprivation in poverty, health, education lead the poor to indulge...

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