This study examines the relationship of corporate social performance (CSP) to corporate financial performance (CFP) to determine if CSP is related to firm performance. Additionally, it examines whether firm size or industry affects the relationships between CSR and CSP. This study advances the...

Objective - Corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) is an interesting issue, which has an influence on the decision of an investor when deciding whether to invest in a company. This study examines the empirical evidence about the factors which influence CSRD. The factors include media...

This study examines the use and effect of repeated contacts on mail survey response rates in management accounting research. The use of repeated contacts such as prenotification or follow-up is one highly recommended means to increase response rates. However, there is very little theory behind...

Business ethics is the application of ethical principles to manage complex dilemmas. Business ethics asks, quot;What is right and wrong and good and bad?quot; in business transactions. Ethical solutions may have more than one, or no quot;rightquot; alternative (Yalcin et al., 2000). In this...

This paper examines how major efficiency gains and improved effectiveness were simultaneously achieved at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand over a five-year period. It identifies the business management concepts that were used to transform the organization, outlines how they were applied, and...

We explore the relation of CSR activities with SG&A cost stickiness and asymmetric sales response by using a data sample of 7.464 firm-year observations of European firms for the period 2009-2015. Our empirical findings indicate that SG&A expenses exhibit cost stickiness (anti-stickiness) in the...

We investigate the impact on strategic alliance value when auditors have greater knowledge and experience in auditing contractual alliances. Although common and economically significant, contractual alliances often fail due to uncertainty, lack of trust, and poor culture matches between alliance...

This research paper looks at the financial disclosures during cross border acquisitions.The acquisition process gives the investors to scan the investment arena to park his funds in a venture. The investors are clueless as to the valuation of the acquisition when their company went on to look at...

The paper treats practical and theoretical aspects of the applied strategic analysis having been developed by the author utilized by an organization in the process of its strategic after-sales service aspects research, the after-sales service score, basing on the score of the same name of the...

The paper considers theoretical aspects of the applied strategic customer analysis based on the on the balanced scorecard customer element developed by the author to be applied in the research process of the strategic organization distribution activity aspects and its sales management. The...