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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"doing good"”.
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Doing Good in Guatemala: Perceptions of Voluntourism in San Juan Comalapa
<p>This thesis is an exploration of host community perceptions of volunteer tourism in the context of a small community in the highlands of Guatemala called San Juan Comalapa. Voluntourism acts as a bridge between development aid and traditional tourism and therefore voluntourism organizations …
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Title IX Coordinators: Good People Doing Good Work Under Impossible Expectations
The Title IX Coordinator is the chief administrator tasked with ensuring institutional compliance with Title IX, but scant literature exists about how Title IX Coordinators come to their role, how they gain the skills, competencies, and knowledge required to ensure institutional Title IX …
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Doing Good: How Three Large Public Institutions Promote An Environment of Service
<p>This study explores the service environment on the campuses of three large public research institutions: Michigan State University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Through qualitative research, campus environments were examined through …
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Feeling bad and doing good: Forgiveness through the lens of uninvolved others
Previous forgiveness research has mostly focused on victims’ forgiveness for transgressors, and variables expected to promote forgiveness, such as transgressors’ repentance and atonement, have been collectively branded as apology. However, decisions concerning forgiveness frequently occur outside …
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Growing from Doing Good in Later Life: Growth Themes in Narratives of Prosocial Behavior
… A better understanding of what growth from doing good looks like can inform individuals and society about how to maximize the benefits of prosocial behavior.</p>
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Doing well by doing good? Exploring how corporate social responsibility initiatives impact consumer behavior
Brands now widely implement corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives to respond to the call for businesses to contribute to societal welfare. The extant marketing research has focused on the economic benefits of brands communicating their efforts in CSR initiatives to consumers. However, …
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Does doing good, do good : an investigation into SRI fund performance in South Africa
In this paper the literature is reviewed to determine what exactly SRI is, and whether there has been evidence of the financial benefits of SRI compared to conventional portfolios internationally. It has been found that among the different opinions of SRI, four goals of SRI are central to …
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Being Better at Doing Good: Organizational Engagement and Foreign Management Practices in DPR (North) Korea
Foreign organizations work in DPR Korea under multiple external and internal pressures, and these organizations try to respond to their working environment in their own ways. However, it is important that these foreign organizations are able to work effectively, in order for engagement with DPRK to …
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Feelings of doing good for myself or others: Discussing effects of self-conscious emotions on sustainable consumption
<p>Consumers have increasing interests in sustainable products, but the actual purchase rate is relatively low. To find the reasons of this gap, previous studies focus primarily on cognitive factors of behavioral change based on the theory of planned behavior. Little research, however, discusses …
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In the business of doing good: Effective return on donation (ROD) mechanisms in philanthropy and impact investing
The Business of Doing Good is not made up of organizations but people. People bring change, substantial change to society as a whole as well as individuals. I was born in India and saw severe injustice that affected me profoundly. I vowed to myself that a day would come and I would do my share to …
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Doing Good or Looking Good? The Impact of Geopolitical Competition on Australia's Aid Performance in the Pacific
… extent to which aid in the Pacific is genuinely “doing good” versus merely “looking good”. The study offers new insights into the factors influencing aid performance and raises concerns about the reliability of such assessments, especially when they concern recipients that are geopolitically …
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Doing Good or Looking Good? The Impact of Geopolitical Competition on Australia's Aid Performance in the Pacific
… extent to which aid in the Pacific is genuinely “doing good” versus merely “looking good”. The study offers new insights into the factors influencing aid performance and raises concerns about the reliability of such assessments, especially when they concern recipients that are geopolitically …
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Doing Good By Approaching Well: Enhancing a System Thinking Mindset and Ecosystem for Student Entrepreneurs Tackling Systemic Issues in Growth Markets.
According to the United Nations, if current trends persist, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will not be met until 2082. The social, environmental, and economic issues behind these goals are inherently systemic and have often been inadequately addressed by governments, companies, and …
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The Function of Christ's Suffering in I Peter 2:21
… just as Christ so also the slave, refers to "doing good," a Greek term meaning "to bring a benefit to someone." Of the five options available to slaves who suffered unjustly in the First Century, enduring unjust punishment rather than running away from it was the only Christian alternative. …
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Szolidaritás és hatalom a kisebbségi magyarokra irányuló jótékonyságban = Solidarity and Power in Voluntary Programs of Hungarian Ethnic Kin Support
… How are actual practices, actions of such “doing good” made possible and shaped by national ideologies and discourses? On the other hand, how are national ideologies and discourses, concepts and categories reproduced in the process of such actions of "doing good"?
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The Ambivalence of Altruism: White Canadian Women in International Development in East Africa
… work overseas often do so with a desire to ‘do good,’ once arriving in the field development workers are often caught between these altruistic ideals and the (neo)colonial and racial inequalities that make up the foundation of the development industry. This dissertation extends earlier works to …
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Defining "good science" in today's World : a video compilation of perspectives and advice for incoming graduate students
… little attention paid to teaching the wisdom of "good" science that encourages riskier path-breaking work over fluff, with the highest goal of research being discovery rather than scholarly publication. In an attempt to help fill this gap, I interviewed fifteen senior life scientists over the past …
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The digital life of goodness: National heroes, NGOs, and commercialised charity in China
… study interrogates a new modality of doing good as featured in the digital turn of Chinese society: the e-commercialised charity. Building on intensive fieldwork focusing on NGOs and activist communities, this dissertation closely examines the social-mediatization and …
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Improving competitive advantage through corporate social responsibility in South Africa : the role of social and environmental impact levels
… as to whether companies can “do well while doing good” has been investigated by academics for over four decades. Conclusive evidence of a positive link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Financial Performance (CFP) so far has however remained elusive. In building on …
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