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The determinants of virtue : modelling changes in the CSR ratings of Chinese firms

Wu, Shuangqi; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Jinming, Wang - 2017

Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. We overcome this limitation by using panel data on Chinese firms. We find no effect of last year's profits on CSR ratings, although their negative...

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Are employees better off in socially responsible firms?

Tamm, Katrin; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - 2010

The growing awareness of the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has raised the questions about how responsible behavior of firms would impact employees' well-being. This paper investigates the link between corporate social responsibility and job satisfaction, which is a more widely...

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Management as a technology?

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 … countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption of basic management practices, with the US having the highest …

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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...

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A theory of expert leadership

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012

that has been addressed in the management literature. In a new 'theory of expert leadership' (TEL), this paper blends …-business industry; and (3) leadership capabilities, which include management skills and a leader's innate characteristics. This paper …

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Female workers, male managers : gender, leadership, and risk-taking

Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2019

This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using data from international top-level women's soccer, we provide evidence that male coaches show a lower level of risk-taking than female coaches on average. We also find a U-shaped...

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Sexual bias and household consumption : a semiparametric analysis of Engel curves in rural China

Gong, Xiaodong; Soest, Arthur van; Zhang, Ping - 2000

We analyze Engel curves for nuclear households in rural China. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families covering nineteen out of thirty Chinese provinces. We consider expenditures on food, also subdivided into several food subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other...

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Choosing a partner for social exchange : charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness

Fehrler, Sebastian; Przepiorka, Wojtek - 2016

People benefit from being perceived as trustworthy. Examples include sellers trying to attract buyers, or candidates in elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange games, in which the trustor can choose the trustee, we study whether trustees can signal their...

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Women in the workplace and management practices : theory and evidence

Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2017

We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High … methodological challenges: (i) how to measure management practices; (ii) how to account for endogeneity of management practices; and …

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Prosocial managers, employee motivation, and the creation of shareholder value

Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018

Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...

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