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Studies on industrial pollution and community pressure in developing countries are rare. We employ previously unused …, self-reported toxics pollution data from Mexico to show that there exists some evidence of environmental justice concerns … and community pressure in explaining industrial pollution behavior. We obtain historical data on toxic releases into water …
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We theorize that social media will reduce the incidence of corporate greenwash. Drawing on the management literature on decoupling and the economic literature on information disclosure, we characterize specifically where this effect is likely to be most pronounced. We identify important...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between corporate governance characteristics, namely the board size, board independence, duality, audit committee, ten largest shareholders, managerial ownership, foreign ownership and government ownership and the extent of...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting by banks in the developing economy of Bangladesh. This paper also aims to examine the users' perceptions relating to CSR disclosures issues. Design/methodology/approach – The study collected two...
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This study examines the linkage between corporate social responsibility and stock market returns in the USA, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Concentrating on corporate disclosure and corporate eco-efficiency, we find mostly mixed results by employing factor performance...
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The monograph analyzes environmental practice of transnational corporations (TNCs) at the end of the 20th – beginning of the 21st century. The study investigates into the reasons for differing environmental practices of TNCs thorough the world and in Russia in particular. The author researches...
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being equal (pollution, number of casualties, and firm profile), the stock market reaction to intense press coverage is …
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such an IG has on firms’ technology choices. The IG aims to reduce the production of some bad, say pollution. It can at a … environment, revealing differences in pollution levels between firms leads to vertical product differentiation. The information …, by shifting sales from ‘dirty’ towards ‘clean’ firms, reduces pollution. We show that the IG is most inclined to …
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There has been a growing interest among policy makers on the use of information disclosure policies for pollution … that both eco-labeling and more general full information disclosure policies may not always result in pollution reduction …
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