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This paper focuses on the management control processes associated with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues … management in organisations. Following a review of the literature related to management control and CSR, we use a case example of … a leading European insurance company to explore the extent and nature of management control for CSR. …
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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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management tool with multiple benefits for opportunity identification. CSR may be promoted as a means of nurturing creativity and …This conceptual paper examines the issue of integrating CSR at the start-up level with the aim of increasing the firm … competitive advantage, CSR principles and practices are a key vehicle for opportunity identification and implementation …
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Social Responsibility (CSR). We surpass the predictions of the agency theory by proposing a cognitive-behavioral approach of … necessity. We study the connection between the nature of the director's profile and the knowledge transfer in CSR practices; and …
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research project on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Three main contributions are offered: first, we argue that the … knowledge. Third, we argue, through an illustrative case, that research on CSR would benefit from being carried out in the … being relevant for CSR practices. …
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Overcoming the Gap Between Academic and Practical Knowledge about CSR: A Methodological Framework Whenever researchers … Responsibility (CSR). Three main contributions are offered: first, we argue that the notion of generic knowledge can help overcome … case, that research on CSR would benefit from being carried out in the radical constructivist epistemological paradigm in …
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This paper investigates the relative importance of different types of news in driving significant stock price changes of firms in the defense industry. We implement a systematic event study with a sample of the 58 largest publicly listed companies in the defense industry, over the time period...
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This study reconsiders the role of jumps for volatility forecasting by showing that jumps have a positive and mostly significant impact on future volatility. This result becomes apparent once volatility is separated into its continuous and discontinuous component using estimators which are not...
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The aim of this article is to use probabilistic ideas to study predictive reasoning based on hypotheses and models, but without using Ito calculus, without writing any stochastic differential equations, in fact without writing any formulas at all. The aim is to extract from the study of...
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We consider a pure exchange financial economy, where agents, possibly asymetrically informed, face an "exogenous uncertainty", on the future state of nature, and an "endogenous uncertainty", on the future price in each random state. Namely, every agent forms private price anticipations on every...
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