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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"corporate citizenship"”.
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Blood money: A grounded theory of corporate citizenship; Myanmar (Burma) as a case in point
Corporate Citizenship as a social phenomena spans a growing body of corporate initiatives, nascent policy frameworks, and global civil society action. Corporate engagement with fragile states, and other situations identified as contexts of conflict and/or weak governance, is the subject of …
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Corporate citizenship: Employee attitudes and their relationship to an employer brand. A comparative case study in the German FMCG industry.
This thesis investigates employee attitudes to corporate citizenship (CC) and the impact on employer brands. It addresses the practice of CC in the German FMCG industry, considers employee understanding of CC, and examines which CC initiatives influence perceptions of employer brands. The research …
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Two Essays on Capital Structure Decisions of the Firm: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Managerial Entrenchment and Ethical Corporate Citizenship
… impact of managerial entrenchment and ethical corporate citizenship on capital structure decisions of the firm. The first essay examines the impact of managerial entrenchment on financial flexibility and capital structure decisions of firms. Agency conflicts and asymmetric information between …
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An Organizational analysis of the inter-organizational relationships between a public American higher education university and six United States corporate supporters : an instrumental, ethnographic case study using Cone's Corporate Citizenship Spectrum
… the study. This organizational analysis examined corporate citizenship through the interorganizational relationships between a public American doctoral research university and six of its corporate partners as framed through Cone's (2010) corporate citizenship spectrum. The World Economic Forum …
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A qualitative study of the communication patterns of the beer brewing industry in Ontario and Québec
… its image, and its behaviors - more particularly Corporate Citizenship Behaviors."--leaf iii.
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Samfélagsleg ábyrgð fyrirtækja í mismunandi menningarheimum
… sáttmála samfélagsins, hagsmunaaðilakenninguna, Corporate Citizenship og Corporate Social Performance. Viðmið og reglur samfélagslegrar ábyrgðar fyrirtækja á borð við viðmiðunarreglur OECD fyrir fjölþjóðleg fyrirtæki, hnattrænt samkomulag Sameinuðu þjóðanna og fleiri voru einnig skoðuð. CSR var …
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Opening Gates: Elevating Corporate Social Responsibility Communication and Strategic Philanthrocapitalism for Social Change
… </em>manifests in myriad terms and meanings: corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, social entrepreneurship, venture capitalism and philanthrocapitalism, to name a few. Now, nonprofit organizations and foundations are building on the social and financial capital of successful …
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Visualizing Oil in Aramco World Magazine: Public Relations and Corporate Photography from 1949-1960
… the magazine concretized a culture of corporate citizenship among employees and countered negative sentiment directed at the company both from within and abroad. It concludes that the images that depicted a range of company operations, from compound activities and personnel portraits to …
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Shaping and managing corporate social responsibility in a low-income country : lessons from Uganda
The corporate social responsibility (CSR) landscape in Uganda was for a long time undocumented. Additionally, Uganda, like many other low-income countries (LIC) has lacked a definitive theoretical base on which to explain what is happening around its CSR affairs. A combination of these two …
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An Investigation of CSR as a Source of Corporate Political Power
… be two sides of the same coin. Yet surprisingly, corporate political power has not been strongly featured in the long-standing debate surrounding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), despite the parallel debate on the influence of business in policy-making. The political dimension of CSR and its …
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Which fairness factors most influence minority professionals to remain committed to an organization as evidenced by a predisposition to depart
… ranks is indicative of the organization's corporate citizenship and its commitment to equal opportunity and diversity. Consequently, factors that affect organizational commitment and retention are of key importance. This mixed study explored the relationship between the attitudes and …
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Pulp Fictions: The Role of Detachable Corporate Social Responsibility in Building Legitimacy for Uruguay’s Largest Ever Foreign Investment.
This thesis examines how practices of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) serve to legitimise Uruguay’s largest ever foreign investment, the US$2.5-billion pulp mill constructed by the Finnish-Chilean firm Montes del Plata. Unusually, this investment prompted little social conflict, which runs …
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A new approach to performance measurement using data envelopment analysis: implications for organisation behaviour, corporate governance and supply chain management
… and systems, and should be measured in terms of corporate governance (CG), organisation behaviour (OB) and supply chain management (SCM) because these factors determine the performance of enterprises in the broader socio-economic perspective generally, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) …
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Corporate social responsibility: the analysis of the social and ethics committee in terms of the Companies Act 71 of 2008
… to recognise the critical connections between corporate activity and socio-economic growth. It is undeniable how important it is for businesses to use corporate social responsibility (hereinafter referred to as ‘CSR') programmes to give back to the community in South Africa. The stressed …
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Socially Responsible and Small: A Quantitative Study of Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Medium Organizations in the United States
<p>Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a global imperative supported by governments, industry, and citizens alike. In 2000, the United Nations launched the Global Compact to encourage businesses to adopt socially responsible policies. In tandem, businesses became increasingly attentive …
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Discourse and Conflict: The President Barack H. Obama Birth Certificate Controversy and the New Media
<p>A creative exploration of the consequences of public speech in the era of freely accessible, social media, as the author, a former elections official, records and explores the consequences of public dissent in the case of President Barack Obama’s eligibility controversy. This non-fiction …
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Good Works: The Topoi of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Travel and Tourism Industry
… focuses on the identification and analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) topoi in the travel and tourism industry. A sample set of six companies was selected for the study due to their size and prominence in the industry -- namely Disney, Hilton, Intercontinental, Marriott, Starwood, …