Purpose: This paper aims to study how corporate social responsibility (CSR) behaviors can lead to corporate membership on Fortune Magazine’s Most Admired Companies list. Design/methodology/approach: Regression analysis using environmental, social and governance (ESG) statistics published by...

We find that approximately one third (29%) of independent inventors continue to spend money and 51% continue to spend time on projects after receiving highly diagnostic advice to cease effort. Using survey data from actual inventors, this paper studies the role of overconfidence, optimism, and...

"In this study, two non-homothetic translog stochastic meta-frontier cost functions-with and without local concavity imposed-are estimated using a nonlinear maximum likelihood estimation procedure to compare the cost efficiency of Alberta and Ontario dairy farms for the period 1984-96. The...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how farm-level modelers can best extend their research to address issues broader than just farm income. The paper describes how trade-off curves are a valuable tool for summarizing the missing information to policy makers on economic problems related to...

Under heavy development pressure, farmland is rapidly being converted to non-agricultural uses such as houses, roads, and recreational facilities. A great deal of research has investigated these farmland losses and their associated drivers. However, the existing empirical studies have neglected...

We simulate a theoretical agent-based model of opinion dynamics in a two-party framework that captures the effects of social pressures that compel individuals to publicly conform to their party line even when they may disagree with it privately. The results of our model indicate that opinions...