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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility: evidence from China
Zu, Liangrong; Song, Lina - 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 whether their values in favour of CSR are positively...
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The Determinants of Virtue: Modelling Changes in the CSR Ratings of Chinese Firms
Wu, Shuangqi; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Wang, Jinmin - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787003
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Determinants of Managerial Values on Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from China
Zu, Liangrong; Song, Lina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 whether their values in favour of CSR are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566698
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287651
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Stakeholders, Bargaining and Strikes
Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2001
We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a … potential willingness of the stakeholder to make contributions to promote agreement may be the source of severe inefficiency …. However, and more surprisingly, for a wide range of parameter values this outcome is better for the stakeholder than if he …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262598
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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2014
foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377328
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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884296
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931754
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Individual and corporate social responsibility
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2009
behavior on behalf of stakeholders, and insider-initiated corporate philanthropy. For both individuals and firms we discuss the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269689
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Are employees better off in socially responsible firms?
Tamm, Katrin; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - 2010
and external stakeholders. A further outcome of the study emphasizes the negative link between firm size and corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278597