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Showing 1 to 20 of 450 for “"Corporate Social Responsibility"”.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Future Earnings
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives can be studied as an investment, a signaling device, and/or an agency problem. In this paper, we focus on the investment and signaling hypotheses, and thus examine the association between CSR and future realized earnings and cash flow from …
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Corporate social responsibility disclosure: International evidence
… explores two different but linked settings: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure in executive compensation design among European countries and within European firms and the consequences of controversial industry-based CSR disclosure on Canadian cannabis firms. In Europe, the …
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Should companies pursue corporate social responsibility?
… argument on whether or not companies should be socially responsible. This is so because the primary objective of every company is to maximize profit for its shareholders, corporate social responsibility is therefore seen as a distraction. According to the leading proponent of this view Milton …
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Analytics for strategic corporate social responsibility
… philanthropic activities independent from core corporate strategy, the potential that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can play in gaining competitive advantage for firms have largely been untapped. One of the challenges in unlocking the strategic advantages of CSR lies in measuring results …
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Pharmaceutical Industry
In my thesis, I assert that corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the pharmaceutical industry is essential for both society at large and the pharmaceutical business in general. I support this hypothesis with data from pharmaceutical businesses that have CSR programs and explain how these …
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Do Academic Directors Promote Corporate Social Responsibility?
… evidence that academic directors enhance firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance after examining a sample of S&P 1,500 firms for years 2002 to 2011. The presence of academic directors in corporate board increases firms’ CSR performance. Within academic directors, female academic …
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Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting and Financial Performance
… aims to investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting and the financial performance of JSE-listed companies in South Africa. The study used annual cross-sectional data of 76 JSE-listed companies for the period 2012 to 2019, extracted from the Integrated …
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A framework for corporate social responsibility analysis
… is to provide a new and practical framework for corporate social responsibility analysis. The increasing importance that this subject is acquiring in our current society can be observed from many perspectives. First, changes have been introduced in corporate governance in the last few years. …
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Korea : a Legal Perspective
Reflecting the modern zeitgeist of improved corporate accountability and transparency, the movement in Korea to enhance Corporate Social Responsibility has permeated entire sectors of society. In contrast to the apparent ubiquity of CSR, however, Korean corporate law remains relatively silent on …
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE RUSSIAN ENERGY INDUSTRY
CSR has witnessed global resonance (Jamali and Neville 2011), facing different formal and informal institutional environments, which characterise the national identify of each country (Khanna et al. 2006; Hira and Hira 2000). This challenges the understanding of CSR and the validity of the …
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The tax deductibility of corporate social responsibility expenditure
… assistance. The research conducted revealed that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an important alternative that must be considered. It does, however, beg the question of how CSR can be implemented to provide this financial assistance? Businesses have a certain amount of economic power and …
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An exploration of developments of corporate social responsibility
… about developments and implementation of corporate social responsibility. The six papers used in the submission (thesis) bring together different perspectives of corporate social responsibility garnered from empirical investigations of corporate entities in the UK which was originally …
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Corporate Social Responsibility & Profitability in South Africa
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been widely studied for numerous decades. In particular, researchers have been keenly interested in its relationship to firm financial performance. However, only recently have measurable and standardised tools been established to quantify CSR, through the …
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Corporate social responsibility: the way forward for development
With Corporate Social Responsibility coming to prominence over the last few decades, business has become a central player in the sphere of development. The business case for CSR, by far the most dominant argument for CSR, suggests that CSR is the answer to social ills, injustice and poverty, but …
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Corporate social responsibility in the transition economy of Romania
… to identify the sense making of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by managers of Romanian organisations in the textile industry. The research examines how managers’ sense making affects the adoption of CSR processes compared to those suggested in the CSR literature. The thesis …
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Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting: Towards a framework for Pakistan
Corporations disseminate Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (CSRR) to discharge accountability and transparency to their stakeholders and achieve corporate legitimacy in society. Originating from the developed countries, CSRR practices have been mainly dominated by the ideas and practices …
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