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Trust in Large Organizations
La Porta, Rafael; Lopez de Silanes, Florencio; … - 2010
Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and … cooperation trust hold up remarkably well on a cross-section of countries …
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Firms' Stakeholders and the Costs of Transparency
Almazan, Andres - 2014
relationships. Stakeholder effects of transparency are especially important for younger firms with less established track records (e … stakeholders and potential stakeholders can affect firm value. Our analysis indicates that while transparency (i.e., generating … about its quality is not prematurely generated. The costs associated with transparency arise because of asymmetric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065245
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Continuing Dangers of Disinformation in Corporate Accounting Reports
Kane, Edward J. - 2009
Insiders can artificially deflect the market prices of financial instruments from their full-information or inside value' by issuing deceptive accounting reports. Incentive support for disinformational activity comes through forms of compensation that allow corporate insiders to profit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767752
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Foreign Firms and Local Communities
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012
The literature on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on host-countries has been almost exclusively focused on issues of productivity, growth and wages. We argue that this leaves quite a bit of important unexplored areas of inquiry,...
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Corporate Social Responsibility for Irresponsibility
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2011
This paper provides an empirical investigation of the hypothesis that companies engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) in order to offset corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). We find general support for the causal relationship: when companies do more "harm," they also do more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122028
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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
Eccles, Robert G. - 2012
processes for stakeholder engagement, to be more long-term oriented, and to exhibit higher measurement and disclosure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108252
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What is the Business of Business?
Nilsson, Andreas - 2017
This paper develops a simple framework for understanding the emergence of new organizational forms, such as socially responsible firms and social entrepreneurs, that embody the private sector's efforts to resolve problems that typically have been within the purview of government and traditional...
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Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens
Reinhardt, Forest L. - 2010
Business leaders, government officials, and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of quot;corporate social responsibilityquot; (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with environmental regulations, do firms have additional...
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Impact Investing
Barber, Brad M. - 2019
We document that investors derive nonpecuniary utility from investing in dual-objective VC funds, thus sacrificing returns. Impact funds earn 4.7 percentage points (ppts) lower IRRs ex post than traditional VC funds. In random utility/willingness-to-pay (WTP) models investors accept 2.5-3.7 ppts...
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Going Green in China : Firms’ Responses to Stricter Environmental Regulations
Fan, Haichao - 2019
This paper examines the effect of stringent environmental regulations on firms' environmental practices, economic performance, and environmental innovation. Reducing COD levels by 10% relative to 2005 levels is an aim of the Chinese 11th Five-Year Plan. Using a difference-in-differences...
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