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The effect of CSR on stock performance : new evidence for the USA and Europe
Arx, Urs von; Ziegler, Andreas - 2008
This paper provides new empirical evidence for the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on corporate financial performance. In contrast to former studies, we examine two different regions, namely the USA and Europe. Our econometric analysis shows that environmental and social...
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Product categories as judgment devices : the moral awakening of the investment industry
Arjaliès, Diane-Laure; Durand, Rodolphe - 2018
Product categories are more than classification devices that organize markets; when reflecting market actors' purposes, they are also judgment devices. Taking stock of the literature on product categories and drawing on the distinction between the faculties of knowing and judging, we elaborate a...
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Challenges for sustainable development of agricultural holdings
Wrzaszcz, Wioletta; Zegar, Józef Stanisław - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 3, pp. 377-402
Agricultural holdings have a very important role for the sustainable socio-economic development. Contemporary, the farms` activity is mainly determined by the market mechanism. Market imposes rules on agricultural holdings` functioning, on both the type and the scale of agricultural activities,...
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The Impacts of Economic Growth on Per Capita Consumption-Based CO 2 Emission between China and United States
Nie, Qing - 2023
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of economic growth, population, and energy consumption on consumption-based CO2 emissions for a global panel of China and U.S. with the comparison of two dynamic models, pooled OLS and LSDV, for the period 1990–2016. The empirical evidence...
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Municipal Bond Insurance and the U.S. Drinking Water Crisis
Agrawal, Ashwini K.; Kim, Daniel - 2021
The alarming rise in drinking water pollution across the U.S. is often attributed to cost cutting pressures faced by local officials. We know little, however, about why these pressures are so severe for some cities compared to others. We present a new theory to argue that an important...
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The Rise of U.S. Food Sustainability Litigation
Tai, Steph - 2014
movement and its rising use of litigation. In particular, it focuses on two growing areas of food sustainability litigation … legal avenues fail to mesh with the values of the food sustainability movements. This article concludes by drawing from … studies of other historical movements and argues that the food sustainability movement, if it is to succeed in transforming …
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Outsourcing of service areas as a method of increasing the effectiveness of a company
Ziółkiewicz, Marek - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 2, pp. 45-56
An increasing number of companies, in order to improve their competitive stance on the market, decide to outsource some of their service functions to external subjects. Outsourcing of this type of activity is frequently regarded as a strategic decision. A properly conducted outsourcing project...
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The influence of organisational culture on the total quality management programme performance
Roldán, José L.; Leal-Rodríguez, Antonio L.; … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 18 (2012) 3, pp. 183-189
This paper aims to examine the relationships between different types of cultures and effectiveness in Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation. Using Cameron’s framework, we have tested the connection between a quality culture taxonomy and TQM programme performance using data from a...
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Funding Urban Mass Transit in the United States
McGowan, Richard Andrew - 2014
As urbanized areas have grown across the United States, roads have quickly developed with them. Yet many cities have developed this infrastructure at the cost of failing to adequately fund urban mass transit, in spite of the important services it provides for the poor, commuters, and the...
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Race to the Future: Innovations in Gifted and Enrichment Education in Asia, and Implications for the United States
Ibata-Arens, Kathryn C. - In: Administrative Sciences 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-25
How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills—including creativity, innovation, and technical capability—to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate education policy and practice into a key component...
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