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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268597
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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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Employment and wage effects of privatization: evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2008
transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268760
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Privatization and changes in the wage structure: evidence from firm personnel records
Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2008
We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269136
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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2012
We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively Mongolian,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289887
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The determinants of rural migrants' employment choice in China: Results from a joint estimation
Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking into account unobservable characteristics that link the choice to migrate with the choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289933
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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs : Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?
Tian, Lihui; Estrin, Saul - 2005
The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China?s newly privatized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262209
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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