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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is like a chameleon, that changes its colour according to the context it is in … speaks the language of religious, political and/or mandated CSR. India, in recent times came into the limelight with its … mandated CSR policy that was incorporated into its Companies Act 2013, which became operational from the financial year 2014 …
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The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) underwent a overhaul in India for certain large, stable companies … importantly, to the Companies themselves. As a result, Corporate Communication on CSR became extremely relevant. Moreover, study … of mandated CSR (here, under the Section 135 and Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013) also became a new area for …
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In the context of the low levels of regional cooperation among South Asian countries when compared with the successful results from cooperation in East Asia (consisting of South East and East Asian countries), the objective of this paper is first to assess the prospects of cooperation among...
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The paper examines cultural differences and institutional uncertainty as important factors in the development of trust as a basis for successful international business relationships. The authors focus their investigation on the potential that actors have in becoming aware of and creatively...
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This paper studies the effect of institutions on trade flows, using a gravity modelapproach. We start from a standard gravity equation that incorporates geographical proximity,language, trade policy and common history. These factors reflect the costs of trade acrossgeographical and cultural...
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Formal trade barriers and transport costs explain only part of the resistance to international trade. Search costs on the international market and insecurity of property rights and contract enforcement have recently been emphasized as important intangible barriers to trade. This paper proposes...
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This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of cultural and institutional distance, and institutional quality. Analyzing a sample of bilateral trade flows between 92 countries in 1999, we find that institutional distance...
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Die Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), hat zusammen mit dem DIW Berlin und dem Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaft, Warschau, untersucht, wie die Unternehmen in Polen und in Ostdeutschland die Bedingungen an ihrem Standort bewerten und ob...
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