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Integrated Approach to Managing Sustainability

Berényi, László - In: Theory Methodology Practice (TMP) 9 (2013), pp. 23-28

Achieving a higher level of sustainable development needs both individual and corporate efforts. An effective solution needs an integrated approach that allows the consideration of environmental and social values in addition to the economic interest. Additional management tools may be useful but...

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Sustainability and Readiness for Change: Insights from a Banking Case Study in Serbia

Kontic, Ljiljana; Kontic, Jovan - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 14 (2012) 32, pp. 537-548

approach. The research setting consisted of an international bank which operates in Serbia. Serbia is one of Western Balkan … selected bank. Regarding different characteristics of national cultures, the construct validity of research methodology … publicly available information about bank. The Organizational Diagnosis Questionnaire (ODQ) developed by Preziosi (1980) is …

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Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance

Ash, Michael A.; Boyce, James K. - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2008

Measures of corporate environmental justice performance can be a valuable tool in efforts to promote corporate social responsibility and to document systematic patterns of environmental injustice. This paper develops such a measure based on the extent to which toxic air emissions from industrial...

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Self-Regulation and Regulatory Flexibility: Why Firms May be Reluctant to Signal Green

Lyon, Thomas P.; Maxwell, John W. - Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, … - 2014

Corporate self-regulation is a crucial non-market strategy, and has generally been understood as a response to regulatory threats. However, self-regulation can also influence the nature of regulatory threats, especially when firms have private information about their costs of abatement. We study...

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Ecologie Politique et Entreprises : un essai d'articulation

Rambaud, Alexandre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

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Water Stewardship and Corporate Sustainability

JONES, Peter; COMFORT, Daphne; HILLIER, David - In: Economia. Seria Management 17 (2014) 2, pp. 358-372

The aim of this paper is to provide an exploratory review of the extent to which some of the world’s leading companies are publicly addressing water stewardship as part of their corporate sustainability strategies. The paper begins with an outline of the growing importance of corporate...

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The Economics of Corporate Environmental Responsibility

Crifo, Patricia; Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 7 (2014) 3-4, pp. 279-297

This paper surveys the economic literature on Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER). It first defines and illustrates what CER is, and what it is not (namely green washing). It then examines various rationales for firms to implement CER programs: to respond to social pressure, pre-empt...

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Corporate Social Responsibility in China:A Vision, an Assessment and a Blueprint

Vermander, Benoit - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Over the years, many corporations have been trying to determine what they can and should do to contribute to the sustainability of the economic, social and ecological environment within which they operate. Corporate social responsibility has become a key senior management issue worldwide and an...

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Socially responsible investing and stock performance: New empirical evidence for the US and European stock markets

Mollet, Janick Christian; Ziegler, Andreas - In: Review of Financial Economics 23 (2014) 4, pp. 208-216

This paper empirically examines the theoretically ambivalent relationship between socially responsible investing (SRI) and stock performance. It contributes to the existing literature by considering both the US and the entire European stock markets and by using consistent world-wide corporate...

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Le coût de la protection et de la réhabilitation de l'environnement

Berland, Nicolas; Dreveton, Benjamin; Dissart, Yannick; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

Environmental protection by both private and puplic organizations has become a major stake for the various actors of society. However, this problem sets up technical difficulties at various levels. In particular, how much does the protection of the environment cost and how are driven related...

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