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This study outlines a systemic review of the social and economic transformations that have been inducing the business …
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specific social and environmental impacts, to a network of organizations, with different aims and natures, collaborating on … complete application of the “subsidiarity principle”, calls for a re-thinking of the “corporate social responsibility” concept … relevant sustainability issues. In this paper, the authors will provide a definition of “Territorial Social Responsibility …
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acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). This kind of certification is assigned by private companies that guarantee that … between Social Responsibility certification and the performance of firms. Their results were ambiguous and did not show any … discover whether certain performance indicators are affected by a firm's social responsible behaviour and their certifications …
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Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O’Bannon, 1997 … Social Responsibility certification and the firms’ performance. Our work builds a CSR index that intersects two of the three … main international indices (Domini 400 Social Index, Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, FTSE4Good Index), in order to …
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The paper addresses the following problems: (1) What is the relationship between competitiveness and CSR? (2) Why is the opportunistic use of CSR counter-productive? (3) How can ethical behavior survive in highly competitive markets? and (4) What is the new meaning of competitiveness in the...
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Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O’Bannon, 1997 … Social Responsibility certification and firm performance. Our work builds a CSR index that intersects two of the three main … international indices (Domini 400 Social Index, Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, FTSE4Good Index), in order to overcome some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167037
environmental quality endowed to her offspring. Entering adulthood, agents choose randomly between two occupations: citizens and … authorities. Politicians decide upon the allocation of the tax revenue between environmental protection and education activities …, reducing total public funds and thus environmental protection activities. This result is in accordance with existing empirical …
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environmental stewardship in the hands of local officials and polluting enterprises who are more concerned with economic growth and … profits than the environment. Therefore, effective environmental protection needs their full cooperation. Against this … governments, and a number of market-based instruments, supporting economic policies, environmental performance ratings and …
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Funding adaptation requires adequate governance and there are different ways to organise and channel the funds to where it is most efficient and most necessary. This paper investigates this issue and studies the practical implementation of a development under conditionality, namely...
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Global warming requires a response characterized by forward-looking management of atmospheric carbon and respect for ethical principles. Both safety and fairness must be pursued, and there are severe trade-offs as these are intertwined by the limited headroom for additional atmospheric CO2...
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