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Corporate Social Responsibility and Firms’ Performance: A Stratigraphical Analysis
Comincioli, Nicola; Poddi, Laura; Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
Over the last two decades in OECD countries an increasing number of firms are obtaining certification as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O’Bannon, 1997; Waddock and Graves, 1997; McWilliams and Sieger, 2001; Ullman,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603761
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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Performance of Firms?
Vergalli, Sergio; Poddi, Laura - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
Over the last two decades in OECD countries increasingly more firms are certifying as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). This kind of certification is assigned by private companies that guarantee that a certain firm’s behaviour is environmentally and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008029
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The Push Factors for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Probit Analysis
Cominetti, Paolo; Poddi, Laura; Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
In the last two decades in OECD countries there has been increased development of Social Responsible (CSR is the acronym of Corporate Social Responsibility) certified firms. This certification is assigned by public and private companies which guarantee that the behaviour of a certain firm is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584503
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Pollution and the Efficiency of Urban Growth
Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of … equilibrium, compared to the efficient urbanization path, if economic growth implies increasing aggregate emissions. If, on the … other hand, production becomes cleaner over time (`quality growth') the urbanization path approximates the efficient outcome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230846
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Sustainability and Substitution of Exhaustible Natural Resources. How resource prices affect long-term R&D investments
Bretschger, Lucas; Smulders, Sjak - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
material balance principles and relying too much on planner solutions to obtain long-term growth. By analysing a multi-sector R …&D-based endogenous growth model with exhaustible natural resources, labour, knowledge, and physical capital as inputs, the present paper … addresses this critique. We study transitional dynamics and the long-term growth path and identify conditions under which firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230919
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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Performance of Firms?
Comincioli, Nicola; Poddi, Laura; Vergalli, Sergio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
Over the last two decades in OECD countries an increasing number of firms are obtaining certification as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O’Bannon, 1997; Waddock and Graves, 1997; McWilliams and Sieger, 2001; Ullman,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561652
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Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change
Agrawala, Shardul; Carraro, Maëlis - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
the 22 leading microfinance institutions in two climate vulnerable countries – Bangladesh and Nepal - are analysed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465531