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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the voluntary social and environmental disclosures made in the annual reports of Rothmans Ltd between the years of 1955 and 1999. The first part of the paper focuses on defining legitimacy theory as it has been used in accounting research,...
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in games of micro-politics and power struggles. Results suggest that knowledge about external institutions substitutes … results of an extensive ethnographic field study of the 2006 to 2008 Siemens corruption scandal. We find that this event did … corporate corruption with regard to its regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive dimensions. It is therefore particularly …
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Seit dem Ende der Bretton-Woods Ära haben zahlreiche Bankenkrisen Volkswirtschaften immense Kosten auferlegt. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit den politökonomischen Einflussfaktoren auf die Tiefe dieser Bankenkrisen. Es wird argumentiert, dass nur schnelle und tiefgreifende...
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welfare through their decisions. Yet, cases of central bank corruption abound. The dissertation provides examples of ?pure …? corruption in central banks. Only a few studies address corruption and similar, but not necessarily criminal, behavior of central … bank employees and governors, even though corruption in the central bank is obviously possible. By the very nature of their …
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in and that put their clout for the fight against corruption in question. Against this background, three novel anti-corruption … contracts induced by means of bribery are analyzed. It is stated that both nullity and voidability run counter to effective anti-corruption …. What is more, legislation can also take advantage of these chinks to fight corruption effectively.In Section II it is …
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sector than corruption. Meanwhile, protests last week forced Canada's Pacific Rubiales, oneof the largest oil producers in …
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Wachstumsgetriebenen DI für zwei der untersuchten sechs Länder (Brasilien und Kolumbien). D. h., dass das inländische Wirtschaftswachstum … under investigation (Brazil and Colombia). That means that economic growth in these countries has a causal impact on …
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electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved … of avoided peak installed capacity is 6 and 9.5 times less than the cost of new installed capacity for India and Brazil … national savings of the order of US $1.2 million per day for India and US $2.5 million per day for Brazil are reached in 10 …
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Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....
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