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Sustainability disclosure and reputation: a comparative study
Michelon, Giovanna - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2007
?This paper aims to explore the relationship between a company's sustainability disclosure and its reputation. The … Global Index (World1), matched on country, industry and size. The extent of sustainability disclosure is determined using the … extent of sustainability disclosure. Furthermore, results indicate that European companies disclose more than US companies …
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Chief sustainability officers : who are they and what do they do?
Perkins, Kathleen Miller; Serafeim, George - 2014
While a number of studies document that organizations go through numerous stages as they increase their commitment to sustainability over time, we know little about the role of the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) in this process. Using survey and interview data we analyze how a CSO’s...
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Human resource management in professional service firms : learning from a framework for research and practice
Kaiser, Stephan; Kozica, Arjan; Swart, Juani; Werr, Andreas - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 29 (2015) 2, pp. 77-101
Success in human resource management (HRM) depends on the question of whether applied practices of HRM meet specific contingency factors and are appropriately configured. Using this argument, the present article examines HRM in professional service firms (PSFs) in pursuit of three objectives....
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Why are US Corporate Boards Under-Diversified among Genders and Races?
Lemayian, Zawadi - 2020
The popular and academic literatures report that women, Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are under-represented on US corporate boards of directors, relative to their incidence in the US labor force. We confirm this observation by tabulating the presence of female and under-represented...
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Corporate Social and Financial Performance in Chemical Industry in the United States
Rahman, Jahidur Md - 2020
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of corporation social performance (CSP) on corporate financial performance (CFP). This study uses return on assets (ROA) to measure corporate financial performance. This study uses KLD index and TRI index to measure corporate social...
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Personal Ethics & the U.S. Financial Collapse of 2007-08
Trautman, Lawrence J. - 2017
The seeds for the 2007-09 financial collapse were sewn over many years and nurtured by ill-advised governmental housing policy, the presence of pervasive fraud both large and small and the widespread failure of personal integrity. A chronology of bad choices made by individuals and the...
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German and US Investment Professionals’ Use of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosures in Their Personal Investment Decisions and Recommendations to Clients
Arnold, Markus C. - 2020
We examine whether and how German and US investment professionals use corporate social responsibility (hereafter, CSR) information when making personal investment decisions and recommendations to clients. Using an experiment, we find that both German and US investment professionals use CSR...
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Financial Outcomes of Environmental Risk and Opportunity for U.S. Companies
Hassel, Lars G. - 2014
The study extends previous research on the relation between environmental and financial performance in two ways. First, we recognize that the inherent environmental risk differs among industries. Increased levels of industry risk cause companies to have lower market values even if they are more...
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Executive overconfidence and the slippery slope to financial misreporting
Schrand, Catherine; Zechman, Sarah L. C. - 2011
A detailed analysis of firms subject to SEC Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases (AAERs) in the 1990s and 2000s suggests that approximately one-quarter are the result of an act that is consistent with legal standards of intent. In the remaining three quarters, the initial misstatement...
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ESG Assurance in the United States
Gipper, Brandon; Ross, Samantha; Shi, Shawn X. - 2022
assuror expertise in ESG reporting frameworks and measurement standards relates to assurance and supports the disclosure of …
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