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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"social performance"”.
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Market Reaction to Corporate Social Performance
… 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 analytical …
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The impact of targets' social performance on acquisition premiums
This study examines whether the corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance of the target firms influences the acquisition premiums paid by the acquirers. Using U.S. public merger and acquisition (M&A) deals, I found that acquisition premiums increase in the targets' perceived CSR quality, an …
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The Influence of Ceo Decision-Making and Corporate Strategy on Corporate Social Performance
… 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, the KLD social ratings. In the first part …
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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
… 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 have been …
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The Design Dimensions of the Just Organization: An Empirical Test of the Relation Between Organization Design and Corporate Social Performance
… 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; Stephens, …
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An Exploration Of The Use Of Objects In The Creation, Maintenance, And Social Performance Of Self Among People With Alzheimer's Disease And Related Disorders
… (ADRD) are faced with multiple threats to their social lives and to their sense of self. Such threats include the assumption that our sense of self is entirely dependent upon cognition and memory, elements that become impaired in AD (Kontos 2006) and images of Alzheimer's disease as the death …
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The Effect of Adoption of Commercial Business Practices on Social Enterprise Performance: An Empirical Study from the UK
… theory, and utilizing a sample of 164 UK social enterprises, this dissertation investigates the effects of adoption of commercial business practices on social enterprise performance. The adoption of commercial business practices refers to the adoption of market orientation, learning …
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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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Examining Competitive Intensity and Social Enterprise Performance
This thesis explores how Social Enterprises’(SE) manage their economically-driven activities with their mission-related activity and how these impact their relative economic and social performance. Given the little research that has been done on external factors within SEs, competitive intensity …
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From Principles to Practice: Sustainable Supply Chain Management in SMEs
… and incorporates the environmental and social performance dimensions of sustainability with the traditional measure of economic performance; current SSCM research indicates a skew towards economic performance and its interaction with environmental performance, while social performance is …
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The Influence of Location of Firm Ownership on Consumers
… decisions based on perceptions of a firm's social performance. In other words, many consumers take into account a firm's impact on society and the environment when deciding where they will spend their money. Thus, it is important for firms to understand what these consumers perceive to be …
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Relazione tra contribuzione pubblica e performance economico-sociali nel settore turistico-ricettivo
… how government grants influence the economic and social performance of companies benefiting from them. Literature in this topic indicates various results: according to some studies subsidies seem to improve company performance and profitability, while, according to others, they have a negative …
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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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Sustainable firm performance of green supply chain management practice at petrochemical industry
… and external GSCM practices on sustainable firm performance by having Green Marketing Mix (GMM) as mediator as well as external supply chain integration as moderator on the mediator (GMM) and developing the best model of the GSCM to be implemented in the local industry. The quantitative method …
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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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