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Pure Profit for Russia: Benefits of Responsible Finance
Gerasimchuk, Ivetta; Ilyumzhinova, Kamila; Schorn, Alistair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The purpose of this report is to serve as a post financial crisis handbook that will help both financiers and environmentalists in Russia to cooperate in establishing a ‘greener’ and less risky financial system in a similar manner to which this process is underway in other emerging markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008593004
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A comparison of three mega bank groups’ strategies towards a low carbon economy focusing on activities of their securities companies
Kasai, Katsuya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
, various promising activities have been identified, all of which should be appreciated equally with SRI. The three mega bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258320
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Benchmarking of corporate social responsibility: Methodological problems and robustness
Graafland, J.J.; Eijffinger, S.C.W.; Smid, H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper investigates the possibilities and problems of benchmarking Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). After a … and environmental aspects as well as national and international aspects of CSR. The overall benchmark is based on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008619153
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In pursuit of a sustainable supply chain: insights from Westpac Banking Corporation
Keating, Byron W.; Quazi, Ali; Kriz, Anton; Coltman, Tim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
socially responsible banks—to examine how they approached the challenge of managing corporate social responsibility (CSR) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260624
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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development
Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of transaction costs on economic welfare and development. We extend the static model of Romer (1994), in which transaction costs reduce welfare by the reducing the equilibrium number of intermediate goods, and estimate the welfare losses in the case of domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616794
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Internet für alle? Die Diskussion des »digital divide« revisited
Krings, Bettina; Riehm, Ulrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Die Diskussion um das digital divide oder die digitale Spaltung, wie sie für den deutschsprachigen Raum übersetzt wird, wird nun schon seit nahezu zehn Jahren intensiv geführt.1 Vor allem im Rahmen der politischen Diskussion hat sich das Bedrohungsszenario einer digitalen Spaltung innerhalb...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617201
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Internet Kiosks in Rural India: What Influences Success?
Kendall, Jake; Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
-Logue, a franchise of over 1000 locally-owned, Internet kiosks in rural villages in India. We seek to assess how this new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790263
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Ethical Investment and Consumers in Cultural History
Alam, Niaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
A short cultural history of the impact of Ethical Investment and Consumers over the years. Primarily from a UK based perspective looking at the evoluton of ethical business issues and their contemporary impact. Topics covered include impacts in books, films and foreign policy. History of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107365
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SRI Cultivation in Andhra Pradesh : Achievements, Problems and Implications for GHGs and Work
Duvvuru, Narasimha Reddy; Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
method of rice cultivation: the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). SRI is an innovative approach to rice cultivation but … not a technology as such. The present papers examines advantages of SRI and its diffusion in India in general Andhra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107463
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Information Dissemination through Official Websites: A Critique
Bhattacharya, Kaushik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
issue of benchmarking of the contents of official websites has not yet received adequate attention. The paper argues that … with the proliferation of official websites worldwide, data dissemination concepts as developed by the IMF need to be …, attempts to specify some common structural features in the contents of official websites that could act as potential benchmarks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742982