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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility : evidence from China

Zu, Liangrong (contributor); Song, Lina (contributor) - 2008

This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social … responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms' productive characteristics influence managers' attitudes towards their CSR rating, and … in poorer regions that are more likely to have managers who opt for a higher CSR rating. Managers' personal …

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Performance effects of appointing other firms' executive directors to corporate boards : an analysis of UK firms

Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Weir, Charlie - 2014

This paper studies the effect on company performance of appointing non-executive directors that are also executive directors in other firms. The analysis is based on a new panel dataset of UK companies over 2002-2008. Our findings suggest a positive relationship between the presence of these...

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Reputation as insurance : how reputation moderates public backlash following a company's decision to profiteer

Arroyos-Calvera, Danae; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2022

We examine whether a company's corporate reputation gained from their CSR activities and a company leader's reputation, one that is unrelated to his or her business acumen, can impact economic action fairness appraisals. We provide experimental evidence that good corporate reputation causally...

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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 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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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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The hidden costs of choice in the labor market

Au, Pak Hung; Li, King King; Zhang, Qing; Zhu, Rong - 2023

Freedom of choice is often thought to improve efficiency. We experimentally investigate the effect of giving workers a choice between compensation schemes with and without a CSR component (CSR/NoCSR) on labor market participation decision and work performance, compared to the alternative of...

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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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Social responsibility in market interaction

Irlenbusch, Bernd; Saxler, David - 2015

A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we disentangle three major characteristics of market interaction, diffusion of responsibility, social information, and market framing, and provide evidence for how these characteristics...

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Social incentives matter : evidence from an online real effort experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2012

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...

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The gender pay gap in the CEOs' labor market

Tani, Massimiliano; Valentine, Andrew; Sharpe, Kieran - 2022

We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past three decades across 18 countries. We find that male and female CEOs receive a similar compensation overall but this masks marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely,...

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