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Showing 1 to 20 of 670 for “"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
… 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 dissertation …
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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
… 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 and connecting outcomes to key business …
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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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Gender mainstreaming and implementation of social responsibility
… study was to examine gender mainstreaming and social responsibility, their connection and whether they promote each other. This subject intrigued authors interest, specially because of the growing gender equality in the world. Discussions on social responsibility has increased and knowledge and …
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Essays on Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
… impact on corporate attitude towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and how CSR activities directly impact firm value. Employing an extensive US sample from 1991 to 2015, we find that firms headquartered in more religious regions undertake a greater level of CSR activities. …
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Do Academic Directors Promote Corporate Social Responsibility?
… 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 directors …
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Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting and Financial Performance
… 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 Real-time …
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A framework for corporate social responsibility analysis
… 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. Second, the …
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A comparison of perceived social responsibility standards with perceived social responsibility performance in the Australian banking industry : A stakeholder analysis
… to which Australian banking corporations embrace social responsibility. It endeavours to establish the meaning of social responsibility generally and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in particular. In view of the multiple definitions of the concept of ‘social responsibility’ offered by …
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Korea : a Legal Perspective
… 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 the issue, omitting to include any explicit provision governing the concept. In …
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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
… 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 with this …
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An exploration of developments of corporate social responsibility
… 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 termed by …
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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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