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The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...
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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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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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Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O’Bannon, 1997 … Social Responsibility certification and the firms’ performance. Our work builds a CSR index that intersects two of the three … overcome some problems related to the multiplicity of CSR definitions and certifications. By using this database, our work …
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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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Over the last two decades in OECD countries increasingly more firms are certifying as Socially Responsible (CSR is the … by looking at panel data. The novelty of our analysis is due to its dynamic aspect and from a CSR index that intersects … Index), to be objective and obtain a representative sample. The main results seem to support the idea that CSR firms which …
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In the last two decades in OECD countries there has been increased development of Social Responsible (CSR is the … certain problems related to the multiplicity of CSR definitions and certifications. The sample obtained is a data panel of 417 … enterprises (317 CSR firms and 100 firms as a control sample) belonging mainly to OCSE countries. The core of our analysis makes …
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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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social responsibility" (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with …
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Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O’Bannon, 1997 … Social Responsibility certification and firm performance. Our work builds a CSR index that intersects two of the three main … problems related to the multiplicity of CSR definitions and certifications. By using this database in a panel framework, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561652