This chapter explains how socially responsible investing (SRI) has evolved in the last few decades and sheds light on its latest developments. It describes different forms of SRI in the financial markets; and deliberates on the rationale for the utilisation of positive and negative screenings of...

Universities - in the UK and elsewhere - are caught on the horns of a dilemma: they need to innovate in course design, but have little or no money available for speculative investment in new programmes. This paper presents an approach to curriculum design that links the pedagogical concerns of...

The voluntary disclosure of company's private information is increasingly at the center of the attention of managers. This tendency has also been analyzed by several accounting organizations - AICPA1, FASB2, IASC3 and also SEC4 - which have recently developed several documents on the...

In this paper we use the theory of social situations (TOSS) to examine the stability in advertising and (price) competition games. In this context, we derive the interesting result that with endogenous and exogenous advertising the incumbent need not maintain a hungry-look, i.e.,...

Remarks delivered at the July 2002 conference quot;Economic Statistics: New Needs for the Twenty-First Century,quot; cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, and the National Association for Business Economics

By scaling pay by AACSB averages pay across business school disciplines can be analyzed. This study looks at a unique data set of business school professors at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It finds large disparities in pay between the business disciplines that cannot be explained by...

Multinational corporations (MNCs) adopt increasingly diverse and complex marketing channels to sell their products worldwide, thus prompting questions about how to manage channels that confront diverse demands from headquarters (HQ), foreign subsidiaries, and local partners, as well as complex...

Wellbeing refers to employees' physical and emotional satisfaction arising from the work environment and the work itself. Ideally, employee wellbeing ought to enhance workers engagement. Workers engagement possibly relate to some factors including leadership. Evidence exist that work enrichment...

The circular economy (CE) has recently stimulated debates on sustainable consumption and production; Its regenerative systems minimise the environmental impact as practitioner reduce their externalities, including; waste, emissions, and energy leakages through the use and reuse of resources....

Spanish Abstract: Las tecnologías de información y el Internet han estado transformando la manera en que las personas trabajan y realizan negocios. De acuerdo a lo mencionado por (Whitely 2000), éstas tecnologías brindan a las empresas oportunidades de acceso instantáneo a mercados...