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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"corporate social performance"”.
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Market Reaction to Corporate Social Performance
… the general issue of investors' use of data on corporate social performance. The problem addressed was, do investors, in their role in forming security prices, use data on social performance in their investment decisions? To address this question, two basic approaches were explored. First, an …
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The Influence of Ceo Decision-Making and Corporate Strategy on Corporate Social Performance
… dissertation, I examine the role of CEOs and corporate diversification on corporate social performance (CSP). In the first essay of the dissertation, I evaluate the financial implications of corporate social performance and assess the validity of a widely used measure of social performance, …
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Using Friedman to understand the relationship between market competition and corporate social performance
The Corporate Social Performance (CSP) literature focuses on the relationship between financial performance and social performance of firms. Although the literature recognizes a positive relationship between these two ideas, it is not clear what role competition plays, since there is confusion in …
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Exploring the relationships between Corporate Social Performance (CSP) and institutional shareholding for JSE-listed companies
… increased interest in companies' environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure and their corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. Although the relationship between a company's Corporate Social Performance (CSP) and its institutional shareholding has been studied in a number of …
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Corporate Social Performance as a Determinant of Firm Financial Distress: Insights from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
This study examines how Corporate Social Performance (CSP) levels affect the likelihood of firm financial distress in an emerging market context across economic cycles. The significance of this research lies in addressing the gaps in existing literature, which predominantly focuses on mature …
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Exploring the curvilinear relationship between corporate social performance and financial performance: Evidence from South African listed firms
… wealth of research into the relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP). However, this relationship has not been thoroughly researched in developing markets, particularly in South Africa. Compelling theoretical arguments and empirical evidence …
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The Design Dimensions of the Just Organization: An Empirical Test of the Relation Between Organization Design and Corporate Social Performance
Although organization design to bring about corporate social performance (CSP) is a critical issue in the business and society field, little research has been conducted. This study is an empirical test of the general model of the just organization presented by Stephens and colleagues (1991; …
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A model for effective organisational stakeholder engagement : development and evaluation of a systematic approach to corporate-stakeholder engagement management
… in business of concepts associated with the social bottom line (corporate social responsibility, corporate sustainability, community investment, stakeholder involvement, public participation and societal license amongst them) have focused the attention of communications academics and …
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Socially Responsible Investing : a comparative analysis of environmental, social, governance, reputational and labor factors
Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) aims to deliver competitive investment returns while fostering social good. It aims achieves its objective by including a firm's corporate social performance (CSP) in its investment d s . I has giesgnfct momentum over the past few years and is poised to assume a …
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Formal and Informal Institutional Influences on Multinational Enterprise Social Responsibility: Two Empirical Studies
… (MNE’s) portfolio of locations affect social responsibility (and irresponsibility)? To explore this question, I engaged in two complementary empirical research studies, each exploring a particular subset of the MNE portfolio environment-social responsibility dynamic.</p> <p>The first …
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Crisis Management in the Delivery of Women's Reproductive Health Care: Responding to Social Activism
… theory to examine organizational responses to social activism. This work examines how womens' reproductive healthcare facilities have responded to anti-abortion activism. Institutional theory, coupled with the crisis management literature, was used to develop a set of hypotheses. Survey data …
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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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Environmental NGOs and Business: A Grounded Theory of Assessment, Targeting, and Influencing
… explaining how ENGOs assess the environmental performance of firms, select target industries and firms, and influence those targeted industries and firms. A preliminary model based on research in the fields of social movements, neo-institutional theory, stakeholder theory, and corporate social …
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Social, cultural, and political constructions of Corporate Social Responsibility in China: A study of business discourses in the Fiberhome Technologies Group
Abstract This thesis focuses on corporate social responsibility (CSR), a vital issue for both business and academic researchers, and examines how the reality of CSR is socially constructed within a Chinese social, political and cultural context. In particular, this thesis examines understanding and …
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Harnessing social capital : an exploratory investigation of stakeholder disposition in boundary spanning networks
… of individuals and small groups imbued with social capital within an organisational stakeholder environment. Initially, this study explores and maps the complex theoretical relations between organisations, stakeholders and social capital to construct an argument for addressing stakeholder …
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Corporate Social Responsibility in China: The Influence of Dynamic Capability and the Implications on Financial Performance and Investment
The thesis explores the determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) adoption and its implications on company financial performance (CFP) and investment in China. In doing so, we aim to answer two primary research questions: (1) how a company’s dynamic capabilities—its ability to respond …
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Stakeholder representation in the CEO's letter to shareholders
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Stakeholder representation in the CEO's letter to shareholders
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms