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We examine why organizations may at times decrease their performance after receiving a positive rating. We argue that in contrast to the prevailing assumption that organizations will strive for favorable ratings to achieve reputational benefits, incompatibility between a positive rating and a...
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The movement of personal data across national borders is fundamental to the Internet economy. Yet the laws that govern such data flows remain national or, at best, regional. This mismatch weakens privacy protection, increases costs and uncertainty for business, creates tension and political...
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We are no longer an industrial economy characterized by assembly lines; we are now in a knowledge economy where creativity is what matters and the old ways of running a firm simply do not work. This paper discusses a new paradigm for corporate ethics and leadership that includes factors that...
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Starting from the famous but controversial statement of Peter Drucker (1981) - "There is neither a separate ethics of business nor is one needed", this paper goes on to argue that business ethics and social responsibility are not unrelated. It shows how it is necessary to distinguish between...
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This paper explores the relationship between attitudes to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the cultural dimensions of business activity identified by Hofstede and Hofstede (2005) using a sample of nearly 90,000 stakeholders drawn from 28 countries. We develop five general propositions...
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The problems of corporate social responsibility have become a big business during the last decades and the idea that companies cannot continue to operate profitably over the longer term unless they can win support for their operations from the society at large and build relationships of trust...
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This study investigates whether mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting ameliorates liquidity and reduces risk for stocks. Moreover, we explore whether these impacts vary with regulated company category and stakeholder influence capacity. For a mandatory CSR reporting...
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This study examines how the gender of corporate social responsibility (CSR) leaders (as signers of the CSR reports) could affect two psychometric properties (i.e., solidarity and certainty) and the readability of the reports. We also investigate how these gender-based differences are associated...
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The 8th UN Forum for Business and Human Rights, held at the end of November 2019, was meant to re-center the state within the discourse and practice of human rights based management of global economic activity. This essay considers two significant challenges to that effort. The first touches on...
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The concept of business ethics and CSR has been developed or adopted widely by the business/companies in the recent years and it has its specific impact on the development of the country and also the welfare of the organisations. The prominent reciprocal benefits that these two concepts can...
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