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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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TRACING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF ACCOUNTING A WESTERN EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN LINKAGE: A PARTIAL EXAMINATION

salvary, stanley c. w. - EconWPA - 2005

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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Why doesn't Capitalism flow to Poor Countries?

Tella, Rafael Di; MacCulloch, Robert - EconWPA - 2004

We find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that governments in poor countries have a more left wing rhetoric than those in OECD countries. A possible explanation is that corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces the electoral appeal of capitalism more than that of...

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Market Reaction and Volatility in the Brazilian Stock Market

Medeiros, Otavio Ribeiro De; Matsumoto, Alberto Shigueru - EconWPA - 2004

We perform an event study to investigate stock returns associated to the announcement of equity issues by Brazilian firms between 1992 and 2003 aiming to determine the market reaction before, during, and after the issue announcement. After measuring abnormal returns by OLS, we used ARCH and...

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An Empirical Analysis of Market Reaction Around the Bonus Issues in India

Mishra, Asim - EconWPA - 2005

Past researches have revealed significant abnormal returns for bonus issues even though the bonus issue date is known in advance and the distribution contains no new information. This study examines the stock price reaction to the information content of bonus issues with a view of examining the...

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An Empirical Analasis of Market reaction Around the Bonus Issues in India

Mishra, Asim - EconWPA - 2005

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Exogenous shocks and real estate rental markets: An event study of the 9/11 attacks and their impact on the New York office market

Fuerst, Franz - EconWPA - 2005

Any attempt to measure the impact of the 9/11 attacks is faced with the difficulty of separating the effects of the attacks from the impact of a wider economic recession and other simultaneous events. This study attempts to isolate the effect on New York office rental and vacancy rates by...

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Social Irresponsibility in Management

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2004

Previously published research suggested that the typical manager may be expected to harm others in his role as a manager. Further support for this was drawn from the Panalba role-playing case. None of the 57 control groups in this case were willing to remove a dangerous drug from the market. In...

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The Case of the Detrimental Drug: Implications for the Stakeholder Theory of Directorship

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2005

The Winter 1979 issues of Directors and Boards presented readers with a questionnaire based to a degree on a 1969 board incident at Upjohn Corporation [see Box 1 (on page 2) and Box 2 (on pages 3-4)]. In this questionnaire, a profitable drug named “Wondola” was being produced by the...

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The Case of the Detrimental Drug: Implications for the Stakeholder Theory of Directorship

Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2004

“stakeholder” theory of board membership which I proposed in conjunction with the Wondola experiment. In the following pages, I … present the background of the experiment. The stakeholder theory will then be proposed as a solution to the “responsiblity …

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