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Over the past decade, the debate on climate change has dramatically shifted. The strong evidence presented by the scientific community through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process established by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Meteorological...
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The aim of this report is to analyze the Socially Responsible Investment in the USA from the shareholder's point of view. Based on the rule 14a-8, dissatisfied investors or activists may submit proposal to be implemented in order to improve social, societal and environmental performances of a...
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Socially responsible firms are expected by European regulators to create shared value for their shareholders, their stakeholders and society. Yet how to generate profits while providing public good is still academically debated. This paper argues that corporate social responsibility encompasses...
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The growth of socially responsible investment on public financial markets has drawn considerable academic attention over the last decade. Discarding from previous literature, this paper sets up to analyze the Private Equity channel, which is shown to have the potentiality to foster sustainable...
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This paper argues that mainstream economic the- ory, far from providing an indisputable plea in favor of shareholder value-maximization, o ers striking arguments showing quite the opposite: pro t maximization cannot be a legitimate prioritar- ian goal for private rms. This opens the door for a...
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The present paper offers a narrative of the attempts of the privatized Romanian oil-company Petrom to assert its legitimacy in an environment characterized by global insecurity of the energy industry, instability of the political regime in Romania and an intensified all-levels fight with...
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concerned. Cluster 1 firms adopted CSR practices to achieve economic goals without resorting to the formalization of these … practices. In contrast, cluster 2 firms "learn CSR by doing" and by establishing CSR procedures and tools. Then  we match … different types of innovation (product, process, organizational). In comparison with the firms which don't adopt CSR, firms in Cluster …
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Biodiversity refers to the dynamics of interactions between organisms in changing environments. Within the context of accelerating biodiversity loss worldwide, firms are under increasing pressures from stakeholders to develop appropriate tools to account for the nature and consequences of their...
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This article analyses the complementarity between various dimensions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and … financial performance. We hypothesise that the absence of consensus in the empirical literature on the CSR-financial performance … different CSR components. We investigate such relationships using a sample of 595 firms from 15 European countries over the 2002 …
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investors and companies are increasingly aware that climate change and its associated needs for reducing CO2 emissions are likely to impact structurally many areas of the economy. This paper offers a contribution to understand these impacts on companies' strategy, by studying management systems....
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