Using enforcements of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, we test the hypothesis that socially responsible (ESG) firms receive lower sanctions from prosecutors. Since virtually all cases are settled by bargaining, we estimate sanction specifications derived from a Nash Bargaining model. To...

This contribution provides a broad overview of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) terminology and its emerging constructs. It presents the business case for CSR. The researcher sheds light on the theoretical underpinnings relating to the CSR agenda, including Corporate Citizenship...

Spanish Abstract: El movimiento de la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (RSE) surge como contrapeso a las ganancias excesivas de las empresas en detrimento de clases sociales marginadas y el medio ambiente. El objetivo de la investigación se centró en realizar un diagnóstico de las...

Aiming at a better understanding of the extent to which Africa-focused research has helped develop context-bound, context-specific, and context-free knowledge, the authors present the findings from a literature review of journal articles with an African context. A systematic search resulted in...

Interventions aimed at increasing priority for employee safety could lead to better safety climate and safety behavior of employees. However, current studies reporting on safety climate interventions lack diversity in contexts and settings, they focus mainly on supervisors and do not take into...

This paper tries to investigate current practices in CSR by UBL, ITPSL & BRTC to find out the linkage between CSR & CR. The discussion is based on interviews with employees, managers & stakeholders who deal with CSR issues and strategy and an analysis of published reports such as annual reports...

This paper examines conflict minerals disclosure (CMD) as mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. We rely on a thorough content analysis conducted by the Responsible Sourcing Network on a sample of 122 firms that filed CMDs with the SEC in 2015. We document that firms with long-term oriented incentives,...

Purpose – This study aims to investigate the association between corporate governance and corporate social disclosures (CSD).Design/methodology/approach – Data analysis has been conducted on 29 prior studies published between 2004 and 2016 for the purpose of integrating the findings across...

This document is a pre-print of the opening pages of a book from Palgrave providing a critical evaluation of the seminal Cadbury Code and how it developed over the last three decades. It shows how the process of institutionalizing corporate governance brought benefit but also missed...

This study aims to explore how the serotonin transporter gene affects corporate governance practices in an economy directly and indirectly through national culture. We investigate how the serotonin transporter gene affects corporate governance practices, especially board and management gender...