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We examine whether a company's corporate reputation gained from their CSR activities and a company leader's reputation …
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responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms' productive characteristics influence managers' attitudes towards their CSR rating, and … whether their values in favour of CSR are positively correlated to firms' economic performance. Although a large proportion of … respondents express a favourable view of CSR and a willingness to participate in socially responsible activities, we find that the …
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Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...
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This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
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We analyze the effects of substitutability of social incentives on the labor supply of gigworkers (N=944) in a natural field experiment. In our treatments, we vary the proportion of the worker's wage that is donated to a social cause. Our experimental design allows us to observe the decision to...
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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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We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second,...
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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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Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making …'s profits on CSR ratings, although their negative contemporaneous relation suggests a trade-off. Managerial shareholdings reduce … CSR ratings while rising wages and employment are the main drivers of increasing CSR ratings. This suggests the CSR agenda …
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