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As businesses span the globe, multinational and translational companies conduct their business operations in foreign settings, especially in developing countries and in countries in transition from Communist regimes. This poses new challenges to expatriate managers and to home-based staff in...
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We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A … are equilibria where either a single agent or no agent is responsible for a task but joint responsibility never arises …
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Anwendung auf Begriffe des öffentlichen Diskurses – Freiheit, Solidarität, Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Nachhaltigkeit und … normative categories such as justice, solidarity, responsibility, sustainability, and corporate citizenship. Based on this …
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We develop and formalize a utilitarian notion of responsibility for sustainability which is inspired by Singer's (1972 …) principle and the Brundtland Commission's notion ofsustainability (WCED 1987). We relate this notion of responsibility to …. Sustainability and responsibility for sustainability are equivalent if and only if sustainability is feasible. If it is not, there …
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Individuals with a preference for keeping moral obligations may dislike learning that voluntary contributions are socially valuable: Such information can trigger unpleasant feelings of cognitive dissonance. I show that if initial beliefs about the social value of contributions are sufficiently...
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The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen´s alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...
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Morally motivated individuals behave more cooperatively than predicted by standard theory. Hence,if a firm can attract … employers may be able to use the firm’s corporate social responsibility profile as a screening device to attract more productive … motivation whatsoever, such screening may in fact drive every firm with a low social responsibility profile out of business. …
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Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die wirtschafts- und unternehmensethischen Arbeiten von William Baumol und rekonstruiert seine ökonomische Erklärung für die spektakulären Wachstumserfolge westlicher Marktwirtschaften.
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referring to the notion of responsibility which is a central concept of political philosophy and theory. It will be shown that …
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