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Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens
Reinhardt, Forest L. - 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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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
Eccles, Robert G. - 2012
We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 US companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993 - termed as High Sustainability companies - exhibit by 2009 distinct...
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Behavioral Public Economics : Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers
Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2005
This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...
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Exporting and Firm Performance : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Atkin, David - 2014
producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance …
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Boards of Directors as an Endogenously Determined Institution : A Survey of the Economic Literature
Hermalin, Benjamin E. - 2001
answering one of three questions: 1) How are board characteristics such as composition or size related to profitability? 2) How …
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Asset Sales, Firm Performance, and the Agency Costs of Managerial Discretion
Lang, Larry - 1994
We argue that management sells assets when doing so provides the cheapest funds to pursue its objectives rather than for operating efficiency reasons alone. This hypothesis suggests that (1) firms selling assets have high leverage and/or poor performance, (2) a successful asset sale is good news...
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Top Executives, Turnover and Firm Performance in Germany
Kaplan, Steven N. - 1993
This paper examines executive turnover -- both for management and supervisory boards - - and its relation to firm performance in the largest companies in Germany in the 1980s. The management board turns over slowly -- at a rate of 10% per year -- implying that top executives in Germany have...
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Top Executive Rewards and Firm Performance : A Comparison of Japan and the U.S
Kaplan, Steven N. - 1992
This paper compares CEO and top management turnover and its relation to firm performance in the largest companies (by sales) in Japan and the U.S. Japanese top managers are older and have shorter tenures as top managers than their U.S. counterparts. Overall, however, turnover-performance...
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Unionization and Firm Performance : The Impact on Profits, Growth and Productivity
Clark, Kim B. - 1982
negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by … may have longer term implications for efficiency since the impact on profitability appears to fall most heavily on firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478115
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The Other Side of Value : Good Growth and the Gross Profitability Premium
Novy-Marx, Robert - 2010
Profitability, as measured by gross profits-to-assets, has roughly the same power as book-to-market predicting the …, despite having, on average, lower book-to-markets and higher market capitalizations. Controlling for profitability also … profitability explains most earnings related anomalies, as well as a wide range of seemingly unrelated profitable trading strategies …
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