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This study investigates how board size and occupational background of directors differentially influence social performance in for-profit and non-profit organizations. Using data from California hospitals, we develop a quantitative measure of social performance and provide the following...
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appointments. We further provide evidence that firms genuinely leverage the expertise of charity directors to enhance their ESG … is primarily driven by non-overboarded directors. Overall, our findings emphasize the tangible value that charity …
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when charities are constrained on funding. We rule out spurious factors with firm-charity pair fixed effects, and address …
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This study basically investigates the association between boards' gender mix and corporate philanthropy among listed firms in Nigeria. To achieve the objective of this study, a total of twenty five listed firms were selected through a stratified random sampling technique. A multiple regression...
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intensively also give more to charity. But much of our evidence indicates that agency costs play a prominent role in explaining …
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This article examines the relationship between the sex composition of boards of directors and corporate philanthropy in a sample of large British corporations. The article hypothesises that having women on boards of directors will be positively related to corporate philanthropy. Bivariate...
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needy populations, nonprofit hospital mergers should be evaluated differently than mergers of for-profit hospitals. However … nonprofit hospitals depends on the link between market power and charity care provision. To test the link, we use three measures … of charity care—two dollar-denominated and one based on service volume—to study charity care provision by for-profit and …
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benefit: charity care. I argue that institutional pressures on nonprofits to provide higher levels of social benefits imply …
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this rationale suggests that nonprofit hospital mergers should be evaluated differently than mergers of for … California data, we find no evidence that nonprofit hospitals are more likely than for-profit hospitals to provide more charity …
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