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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to determine what types of sustainability activities companies are reporting and whether persons external to the companies understand how those reported activities correspond to the companies' narratives about sustainability. That is to ascertain how people...
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can use each approach to differentially influence managers to make more CSR investments. The paper uses game theory with … an all-pay contest structure to model how a large institutional investor could reward firms for CSR activities by …). We identify conditions under which the punishment contest induces a higher level of CSR activity among firms compared to …
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into the business planning and long-term strategy, and their view of the costs and benefits of ESG-related programs. We ask …:• What are the real costs and benefits of ESG? • How do companies signal to constituents that they take ESG activities … seriously? • How accurate are the ratings of third-party providers that rate companies on ESG factors?• Do boards understand the …
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Shareholder activism on sustainability issues has become increasingly prevalent over the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address environmental and social...
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