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Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens

Reinhardt, Forest L. - 2008

Business leaders, government officials, and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of "corporate social responsibility" (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with environmental regulations, do firms have additional moral or...

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The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

Eccles, Robert G. - 2012

We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched …-term, both in terms of stock market and accounting performance …

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Achieving Scale Collectively

Bassi, Vittorio; Muoio, Raffaela; Porzio, Tommaso; Sen, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper argues that rental market interactions allow small firms to increase their effective scale and mechanize production, even when each individual firm would be too small to invest in expensive machines. We conduct a novel survey of manufacturing firms in Uganda, which uncovers an active...

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners : The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...

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Small Business Survival Capabilities and Policy Effectiveness : Evidence from Oakland

Bartlett, Robert P, III. - 2020

Using unique City of Oakland data during COVID-19, we document that small business survival capabilities vary by firm size as a function of revenue resiliency, labor flexibility, and committed costs. Nonemployer businesses rely on low cost structures to survive 73% declines in own-store foot...

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PIPE Dreams? The Performance of Companies Issuing Equity Privately

Brophy, David J. - 2004

firms whose poor operating performance may limit alternative financing options. We propose that firms are motivated to sell … investor composition of a PIPE security matter in the subsequent performance of the issuing firm. Poor post …-issuance performance is associated with securities where investors obtain significant repricing rights, which protect them from future …

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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines

McKenzie, David J.; Mohpal, Aakash; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations. In theory, raising aspirations could have positive effects by inducing higher effort, but could also reduce effort if unmet aspirations lead to frustration. Treatment resulted...

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Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance

Cai, Jing - 2016

of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,800 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly …

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Getting on the Map : The Impact of Online Listings on Business Performance

Luca, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We evaluate the extent to which small businesses maintain an online presence, looking at restaurant listings on a major online review platform. While the majority of restaurants have an online presence, we find that roughly 18 percent in our sample have no presence as of the end of 2017, despite...

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Credit Supply Shocks and Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Brazil

Bazzi, Samuel; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Oliveira, Raquel F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We explore how financial constraints distort the entry decisions among otherwise productive entrepreneurs and limit growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run...

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