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sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …
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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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regulation (under the condition that it is efficient) can lead to win-win situations, in which social welfare as well as the …
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Severe environmental degradation appears to be threatening the long-term development prospects of countries all over the world, particularly the developing ones such as Nigeria. The paper reviews relevant literature and examines the process of environmental degradation via water pollution in...
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This paper explores what a critical commentary on micro principles texts might look like, examining what is to be critiqued and how to do it.
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This essay will consider the relevance of the social sciences - especially economics - to the foundations of … principles. In particular, the concept of sustainability, carrying with it clear requirements for values, goals and ethics, has … begun to reshape economics. The broadest conception of sustainability is found if we understand sustainable development to …
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Given the call for the development of an accounting conceptual framework, this paper rejects the need for such an undertaking. Using a historical methodology this paper traces the existence of an accounting conceptual framework that painstakingly has been established over the centuries. The...
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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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This paper analyzes the effects of public subsidies on R&D expenditure in the German manufacturing sector. The focus is on the question whether public R&D funding stimulates or crowds out private investment. Cross sectional data at the firm level is used. By applying parametric and...
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are taken into account. The paper proposes a theory of innovation and market structure, showing that the relation between … innovation and competition depends on horizontal spillovers, vertical spillovers, and cooperative settings. The private …
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