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The impact economy : balancing profit and impact
Schoenmaker, Dirk - 2020
How can governments and companies be jointly empowered to have a positive impact on the sustainable development goals? The current economic system is largely geared towards increasing economic growth. But this could come at the expense of rising social inequality and environmental...
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CSR and firm survival : evidence from the climate and pandemic crises
Chemmanur, Thomas J.; Gounopoulos, Dimitrios; … - 2022
We analyse the relationship between the extent of a firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its long-term survival probability. We conjecture that a better CSR rating is associated with a lower probability of corporate failure and a longer survival period. Consistent with this, we...
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Does corporate social responsibility affect the performance of firms?
Comincioli, Nicola; Poddi, Laura; Vergalli, Sergio - 2012
Over the last two decades in OECD countries an increasing number of firms are obtaining certification as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O'Bannon, 1997; Waddock and Graves, 1997; McWilliams and Sieger, 2001; Ullman, 1985)...
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Does corporate social responsibility affect the performance of firms?
Vergalli, Sergio; Poddi, Laura - 2009
Over the last two decades in OECD countries increasingly more firms are certifying as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). This kind of certification is assigned by private companies that guarantee that a certain firm's behaviour is environmentally and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008811383
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Incorporation and taxation : theory and firm-level evidence Peter Egger; Christian Keuschnigg; Hannes Winner
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian; Winner, Hannes - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847019
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Do global financial markets capitalise sustainability? : evidence of a quick reversal
Moliterni, Fabio - 2018
This study investigates the growing importance of sustainability in financial markets by estimating the extent of capitalisation of companies' commitment to sustainability on their market value. The spreading concern for social and environmental issues, and especially for the material risks of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862953
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A comparison between sustainability frameworks : an integrated reading through ESG criteria for business strategies and enterprise risk management
Casciotti, Paola - 2023
SDGs, to implement coherent public and enterprise's policies and to produce realistic sustainability reports. The … classification approach, a new enterprise internal framework, to integrate both sustainability and financial drivers, into Corporates … easily comparable and integrated at an application enterprise level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391219
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An attempt to disperse the Italian interlocking directorship network : analyzing the effects of the 2011 reform
Drago, Carlo; Ricciuti, Roberto; Santella, Paolo - 2015
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects on the Italian directorship network of the corporate governance reform that was introduced in Italy in 2011 to prevent interlocking directorships in the financial sector. Interlocking directorships are important communication channels among...
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Disentangling the effect of private and public cash flows on firm value
Scherrer, Cristina Mabel; Fernandes, Marcelo - 2016
This paper presents a simple model for dual-class stock shares, in which common shareholders receive both public and private cash flows (i.e. dividends and any private benefit of holding voting rights) and preferred shareholders only receive public cash flows (i.e. dividends). The dual-class...
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The government as a large shareholder : impact on firm value and corporate governance
Fernandes, Marcelo; Novaes, Walter - 2015
The subprime crisis led to a wave of government interventions in the private sector that has been particularly strong in Europe and Latin America, where several governments are large shareholders in a variety of public firms. In a sense, the subprime crisis induced these governments to behave as...
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