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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
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Mapping technologies to business models : an application to clean technologies and entrepreneurship
Dörr, Julian Oliver - 2022
Theory suggests that new market entrants play a special role for the creation of new technological pathways required for the development and diffusion of more sustainable forms of production, consumption, mobility and housing. Unconstrained by past technological investments, entrants can...
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On violence in professional team sport as the endogenous result of profit maximization
Stewart, Kenneth G.; Ferguson, Donald G.; Jones, J. C. H. - 1992
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Peer effects of ambition
Albert, Philipp; Kübler, Dorothea; Silva-Goncalves, Juliana - 2019
Ambition as the desire for personal achievement is an important driver of behavior. Using laboratory experiments, we study the role of social influence on ambition in two distinct domains of achievement, namely performance goals and task complexity. In the first case, participants set themselves...
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Corporate carbon emission statements
Reichelstein, Stefan - 2022
Current corporate disclosures regarding carbon emissions lack commonly accepted accounting rules. The accrual accounting system for carbon emissions described here is grounded in the rules of historical cost accounting for operating assets, enabling the preparation of balance sheets and flow...
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Can mass fundraising harm your core business? : a field experiment on how fundraising affects ticket sales
Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen - 2019
Some companies engage in mass fundraising - where thousands of recipients are asked to make small donations - in addition to their core business. Via a corpo-rate social responsibility (CSR) channel this may increase sales. However, recent research uncovered significant "ask avoidance" which, if...
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Who shows solidarity with the irresponsible?
Bolle, Friedel; Costard, Jano - 2013
In the Solidarity game lucky winners of a lottery can transfer part of their income to unlucky losers. Will losers get smaller transfers if they can be assumed to be responsible for their zero income because they have chosen riskier lotteries? Or will risk-lovers and riskaverters favor those who...
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Measuring the impact of the OECD guidelis for multinational companies
Mueller, Bernardo; Roviello, Felipe Yudi - 2021
The OECD Guidelines for the responsible business conduct of Multinational Enterprises is one of the largest corporate social responsibility programs (CSR) in the world. By February 2021, 501 allegations of misconduct by multinational companies have been brought to the attention of the National...
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Tax strategy disclosure : a greenwashing mandate
Bilicka, Katarzyna; Casi-Eberhard, Elisa; Seregni, Carol; … - 2022 - This version: 27.04.2022
Firms constantly face new and more stringent tax disclosure requirements and, increasingly, paying a fair share of tax is seen as part of corporate social responsibility. In this paper, we investigate whether mandating qualitative tax disclosure leads to intended outcomes, using, as an exogenous...
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Executive compensation tied to ESG performance : international evidence
Cohen, Shira; Kadach, Igor; Ormazabal, Gaizka; … - 2022
This paper examines the reliance on ESG metrics in executive compensation contracts. In our sample of international publicly traded firms, a rapidly growing fraction incorporate ESG metrics in the compensation schemes of their top executives. Our analysis links the reliance on these metrics to...
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