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How Global Is International CSR Research? Insights and Recommendations from a Systematic Review

Pisani, Niccolò; Kourula, Arno; Kolk, Ans; Meijer, Renske - 2020

While studies on international corporate social responsibility (CSR) have expanded significantly, their true global nature can be questioned. We systematically review 494 articles in 31 journals over a 31-year period. We assess the embeddedness of CSR in international management/business (IB);...

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Reviewing a Decade of Research on the 'Base/Bottom of the Pyramid' (BOP) Concept

Kolk, Ans; Rivera-Santos, Miguel; Rufin, Carlos R. - 2013

In 1998-1999, Prahalad and colleagues introduced the Base/Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) concept in an article and a working paper. This article’s goal is to answer the question: What has become of the concept over the decade following its first systematic exposition in 1999? To answer this...

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Thinking Globally, Acting Regionally : The Case for a Pacific Climate Treaty

Wewerinke-Singh, Margaretha - 2017

The Model Pacific Climate Treaty presented in this report is a draft model treaty for the Pacific region aimed at averting the multiple threats posed by climate change. The initiative of a Pacific Climate Treaty builds on the momentum of the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations...

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What Caused the Smartphone Revolution?

Evans, David S.; Chang, Howard H.; Joyce, Steven - 2019

This paper examines the contribution of 3G and 4G cellular technologies to the smartphone revolution. It relies on quasi-natural experiments in which these technologies were launched at different times and deployed at different rates across countries while the availability of handsets, operating...

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Rebuilding Global Trade : Proposals for a Fairer, More Sustainable Future

Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn; Meléndez-Ortiz, Ricardo - 2009

In advance of the G20 London Summit in early April 2009, and in the context of the economic crisis, the immediate priority of many governments and trade experts was rightly to create and implement a strategy that would offset declining trade and investment, particularly in developing countries...

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Improving Development Effectiveness through R&D: Dynamic Learning and Evaluation

Fiala, Nathan; Mangan, Cormac - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Research and development (R&D) is a common process in for-profit organizations. Despite the benefits, it is not routinely practiced in nonprofit organizations, in part because it is difficult to identify the effects of programs that are designed to involve individuals over long periods of time....

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Microfinance in LDCs: multipurpose NGOs linkage models

SANSEVERINO, Chiara - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2007

’. Nevertheless a ri-definition of their role is needed, given some critical impacts of NGO programs in microfinance and given the … strategic partnerships in which the multipurpose NGO, as promoter, manage the component of non-financial services and other … guarantee. This kind of ‘linkage model’ can overwork NGO ability to stay at the grassroots and succeeds in both reducing …

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Private Donations for International Development

Micklewright, John; Wright, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Charitable donations by private individuals and firms can help fund the Millennium Development Goals. What are the prospects for increasing donations for international development, whether from small-scale donors, the super-rich (as in the recent gifts by Bill Gates and Ted Turner), or the...

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Media Coverage & Charitable Giving After the 2004 Tsunami

Brown, Philip; Minty, Jessica - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006

Media coverage of humanitarian crises is widely believed to influence charitable giving, yet this assertion has received little empirical scrutiny. Using Internet donations after the 2004 tsunami as a case study, we show that media coverage of disasters has a dramatic impact on donations to...

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The Scope of NGOs and Development Program Design: Application to Problems of Multidimensional Poverty

Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2012

choices concerning program type? The application of the economics of organization yields useful insights into NGO structure …

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