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Shareholder activism on sustainability issues
Grewal, Jody; Serafeim, George; Yoon, Aaron - 2017
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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Re-thinking the CSP-CFP linkage : analyzing the mechanisms involved in translating socially-responsible behavior to financial performance
Mehrpouya, Afshin; Chowdhury, Imran - 2018
In this paper, we re-examine the notion that socially-responsible behavior by firms will lead to increased financial performance. By identifying the underlying processes, institutional settings and actors involved, we present a framework that is more attentive to the multiplicity and...
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How do companies invest in corporate social responsibility? : an ordonomic contribution for empirical CSR research
Will, Matthias Georg; Hielscher, Stefan - 2012
This paper takes both a conceptual and an empirical approach to answer the question of how CSR can be connected to the company’s role as an agent of social value creation that operates within an imperfect institutional framework of market competition. To develop a functional design for an...
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How do companies invest in corporate social responsibility? : an ordonomic contribution for empirical CSR research
Will, Matthias Georg; Hielscher, Stefan - 2012
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Beyond symbolic responses to private politics : codes of conduct and improvement in global supply chain working conditions
Short, Jodi L.; Toffel, Michael W.; Hugill, Andrea R. - 2016
Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance, but it is unclear whether these formal organizational structures raise labor standards. Drawing on thousands of audits conducted...
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Shareholders and stakeholders around the world: the role of values, culture, and law in directors' decisions
Licht, Amir N.; Adams, Renée - 2020 - This version: 5 November 2020
We present evidence on the way personal and institutional factors could together guide public company directors in decision-making concerning shareholders and stakeholders. In a sample comprising more than nine hundred directors originating from over fifty countries and serving in firms from...
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Theorie für die Praxis - zehn Thesen zur wirtschafts- und unternehmensethischen Ausbildung von Führungskräften
Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan; Beckmann, Markus - 2007
und Unternehmensethik kommt jedoch derzeit nicht zustande, weil einigen unternehmensethischen Ansätzen (nach wie vor) die … Hintergrund argumentiert dieser Beitrag, ((a)) warum die Unternehmensethik von einer wirtschaftsethischen Konzeption gesteuert … solche Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik in die Ausbildung von Führungskräften integriert werden kann, so dass die BWL als …
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Corporate citizenship as stakeholder management : an ordonomic approach to business ethics
Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan; Beckmann, Markus - 2008
This paper argues that the perspective of ordonomic - a rational-choice based analysis of (interdependencies between) social structure and semantics - can provide new insights into the changing role of business in society. We claim (a) that the proper role of business is societal value creation,...
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