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The Role of Standards in Eco-innovation: Lessons for Policymakers

Vollebergh, Herman R.J.; Werf, Edwin van der - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost … discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and …-saving technologies. This broad perspective enables us to identify interesting economic dimensions of standards, such as their …

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Platform Competition with Endogenous Multihoming

Roson, Roberto - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

A model of two-sided market (for credit cards) is introduced and discussed. In this model, agents can join none, one, or more than one platform (multihoming), depending on access prices and the choices made by agents on the opposite market side. Although emerging multihoming patterns are,...

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Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non- profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form of a donation received by a...

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Cross-Country Ethical Dilemmas in Business: A Descriptive Framework

Ferro, Nicoletta - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

As businesses span the globe, multinational and translational companies conduct their business operations in foreign settings, especially in developing countries and in countries in transition from Communist regimes. This poses new challenges to expatriate managers and to home-based staff in...

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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,...

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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Tirole, Jean; Bénabou, Roland - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Society’s demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the “psychology and economics” of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend,...

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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...

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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...

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Market Equilibrium in the Presence of Green Consumers and Responsible Firms: A Comparative Statics Analysis

Doni, Nicola; Ricchiuti, Giorgio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

This paper analyzes how the interaction between green consumers and responsible firms affects the market equilibrium. The main result is that a higher responsibility by both producers and consumers can have different impacts on the efficiency of the firms’ abatement activity, depending on the...

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Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens

Stavins, Robert N.; Reinhardt, Forest L.; Vietor, … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

Business leaders, government officials, and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of "corporate social responsibility" (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with environmental regulations, do firms have additional moral or...

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