This paper investigates the relationship between sustainability disclosure measured through the combined and individual environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores and the value of European companies from energy and health care industries. The reasons for this research are the increased...

This paper looks at how companies might respond to the demands of stakeholders when developing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies. Using empirical evidence across five countries we show that stakeholder expectations on CSR do not appear to conflict within countries but are...

“The proof of the pudding is in eating it”. The product will succeed only if people have successfully implemented it and benefitted from it. Prem not only discusses the behavioral factors responsible for success or failure of IT product life cycle, but introduces a whole new field of...

There is so much euphoria about IT, particularly with IT proliferating into every area of our lives. Miracles of IT like the internet, on-line services like banking, shopping, home delivery of goods, cab-booking services, ease of communication through social media, GPRS, home-based conferencing...

The extension of management discourse to public-sector entities in Italy comes up against a particularly interesting case in museums and art organisations. Here more than anywhere else, perhaps, the rhetoric of managerialisation faces serious problems in understanding the nature of such...

Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice towards positive social impact. In this paper, I provide a framework outlining the role of investors as stewards of the commons. While companies are increasingly...

This paper models Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as one of the outputs that results from a firm's decisions regarding what and how to produce. The framework developed allows for studying technical efficiency and deriving a system of internal shadow prices to quantify the value of...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationships between different dimensions of corporate social responsibility (CSR), as well as the mediating role of innovation between CSR dimensions and financial performance. Data was collected with questionnaires from 321 managers of...

In the conditions of constant market changes, fast development and spread of technology, multiply competition and „over night” product superannuation, successful companies became those who create new knowledge, spread it out trough the entire company and implement it rapidly in the new...

There are many factors that determine the structure of competition in the environment of growing globalization. Of these, the factors which predominates the nature of competition include not only rivals, but also the economics of particular industries, new entrants, the bargaining power of...