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Oil spills: are corporations responsible for protecting the environment? USA and Africa
Wrigley, Eric - In: African Journal of Economic and Sustainable Development 3 (2014) 3, pp. 237-253
The purpose of this paper is to answer the following question: are corporations responsible for protecting the environment? In order to answer this question, this paper addresses the following topics: major oil spills, corporate social responsibility, corporate social irresponsibility,...
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Love Canal and the return of paper prophets: a social critique of mainstream accounting
Tinker, Tony - In: African Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance 3 (2014) 2, pp. 143-148
USA is inflicting severe damage upon both the environment and its inhabitants. In 1979, the EPA estimated that in the … USA there were as many as 51,000 sites containing potentially hazardous waste. The number of sites with 'significant …
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Do Investors Value a Firm’s Commitment to Social Activities?
Rodgers, Waymond; Choy, Hiu; Guiral, Andrés - In: Journal of Business Ethics 114 (2013) 4, pp. 607-623
two stage investor decision-making model the relationship between a firm’s innovation effort, CSR, and financial … commitment (CSR) contributes to its financial performance; (2) after controlling for investment in innovation activities, CSR … community relation dimension of CSR only affects the market-based CFP measure of firms with high innovation intensity. Copyright …
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Voluntary agreements and community development as CSR in innovation strategies
Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
, where a non-governmental organization (NGO) rather than a regulator watches over citizens' interests. The innovation … innovation process is considered in terms of a redistribution of profit towards community development, with or without additional … demonstrates that the firm's choice of VA hinges on the tradeoffs between appropriating the full innovation profit and paying a …
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Leadership of organizational change toward an integrated model of leadership for corporate responsibility and sustainable development: A process model of corporate responsibility b...
D'amato, Alessia A.; Roome, Nigel - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2009
sustainable development, which is understood to involve organizational and social innovation leading to change. The paper draws on … theoretical and empirical studies to examine leadership for CR as a particular example of management innovation. Design … integrating the literatures on management innovation and leadership for CR. The proposed model is consistent with the direction …
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Competitiveness
Simona-Luize, tureanu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 2, pp. 556-558
Corporate social responsibility helps achieving different social, environmental and economic policy goals, but it can also contribute to competitiveness. This paper concentrates on how CSR could help competitiveness at level of individual enterprises. Moreover the connection between macro-level...
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The relationship of ethical and economic behaviour
Sigmund, Tomáš - In: Politická ekonomie 2015 (2015) 2, pp. 223-243
Altruism and the ethical relationship to other people affect behaviour of subjects in economic environment. Economy tries to capture this behaviour, there are various models, but it hasn´t been successful in fi nding one model describing various types and cases of altruistic behaviour. Business...
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MODERN FACTORS THAT ENHANCE COMPANY'S FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Claudiu-Marian, Gruian - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 169-175
, corporate social responsibility, innovation, knowledge spillovers. Study limits refer to the fact that these four factors are …
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Corporate Social Responsibility – between Desideratum and Reality
HRISTEA, Anca Maria - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics XVIII(2011) (2011) 10(563), pp. 57-74
The corporate social responsibility is a desideratum of the world and it is an important premise of the business environment. The objectives of this presentation are: conceptual understanding, the identification of the advantages generated by the social responsibility for the company and for the...
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Voluntary agreements and community development as CSR in innovation strategies
Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
, where a non-governmental organization (NGO) rather than a regulator watches over citizens' interests. The innovation … innovation process is considered in terms of a redistribution of profit towards community development, with or without additional … demonstrates that the firm's choice of VA hinges on the tradeoffs between appropriating the full innovation profit and paying a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643538