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How do Companies Invest in Corporate Social Responsibility? An Ordonomic Contribution for Empirical CSR Research

Will, Matthias Georg; Hielscher, Stefan - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 3, pp. 219-241

This paper takes both a <i>conceptual</i> and an <i>empirical</i> approach to answer the question as to how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be connected to the company’s role as an agent of social value creation when it operates within an imperfect institutional framework of market competition. To...

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The Role of the Management Fashion Arena in the Cross-National Diffusion of Management Concepts: The Case of the Balanced Scorecard in the Scandinavian Countries

Madsen, Dag; Slåtten, Kåre - In: Administrative Sciences 3 (2013) 3, pp. 110-142

The diffusion of fashionable management concepts is an important research topic in management and organization studies. Researchers have pointed out that various actors such as consultants, conference organizers and the business media comprise the so-called “management fashion arena” around...

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Applying Emotional Intelligence Skills to Leadership and Decision Making in Non-Profit Organizations

Hess, James D.; Bacigalupo, Arnold C. - In: Administrative Sciences 3 (2013) 4, pp. 202-220

Non-profit organizations and leaders may benefit from the utilization of behaviors attributed to emotional intelligence. The consideration of emotional intelligence skills becomes a strategy for the development of the non-profit organizational leader’s ability to assess the impact and...

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Relationship between Leadership and Characteristics of Learning Organizations in Deployed Military Units: An Exploratory Study

Schiena, Raffaella Di; Letens, Geert; Aken, Eileen Van; … - In: Administrative Sciences 3 (2013) 3, pp. 143-165

Previous research has shown that military units operating in the context of risky missions display the characteristics of a Learning Organization. The present work provides preliminary exploratory evidence about the association between Learning Organization characteristics and leadership styles...

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The Bretton Woods Institutions and the Environment: Organizational Learning within the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Lindenthal, Alexandra; Koch, Martin - In: Administrative Sciences 3 (2013) 4, pp. 166-201

Due to a growing public awareness, in the last 40 years environmental impacts of development projects financed and supported by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have come into view. Since then, the member states have pressured both organizations to implement environmental...

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Governance in the Arts and Culture Nonprofit Sector: Vigilance or Indifference?

Turbide, Johanne; Laurin, Claude - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 4, pp. 413-432

In this article we attempt to contribute to governance research in the nonprofit area by proposing a conceptual framework inspired by recent developments in the literature. First, we analyze the governance of nonprofit organizations (hereafter, NPOs) from different theoretical perspectives,...

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The Challenge of Corruption in Global Supply Chains : Compliance Risks Posed by Labor Protection Contracts in Mexico

Brooks, Tequila J. - 2018

This article discusses the compliance risk posed to corporations by the practice of protection unionism in supply chains in Mexico. The article explains the concepts of protection unionism and "labor protection contracts," shows how the practice distorts genuine tripartism in the workplace,...

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Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment : The Case of South Asia

Shah, Mumtaz Hussain - 2019

This paper empirically investigates the influence of corruption, bureaucratic quality and government stability on … period of 1985-2008. Owing to the long-term relationship with the host, absence of corruption and bureaucratic interventions … absence of corruption, honest public office holders, efficient bureaucracy and government stability for the foreign direct …

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The Effect of Home Country and Host Country Corruption on Foreign Direct Investment

Brada, Josef C.; Drabek, Zdenek; Perez, M. Fabricio - 2023

We analyse the effect of corruption on FDI. Using FDI outflows from a sample of East European transition economies that … the inertia of past investments. Our model separates the effects of corruption on FDI location decisions and on the amount … invested. We find a linear and negative relationship between host country corruption and the likelihood of MNCs locating in …

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Determining Whether the Institutional Conditions of a Region and the Internal Factors at the Firm-Level Influence the National Entrepreneurial Innovation in Korea

Samson, Kouame - 2017

In this paper, we use a panel of manufacturing firms in South Korea to investigate the influence of factors on the institutional and firm-level on the innovativeness of manufacturing firms. This research used the regional innovation system (R.I.S.) theory perspective to deepen the understanding...

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