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Three Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility Csr Of Entrepreneurial Firms
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Author : Yefeng Wang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Three Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility Csr Of Entrepreneurial Firms written by Yefeng Wang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a broad management concern, it is not only critical to every aspect of modern business practice, but is also deeply incorporated into a company's daily operations via its values, norms, and decision-making process, etc. While there is an ever-increasing number of studies on CSR, many researchers have treated CSR as one single broad construct, its individual dimensions have been largely neglected. This dissertation takes the opportunity to address CSR by focusing on two dimensions: diversity and governance of three different entrepreneurial entities including clean-technology ventures, family firms in the United States and companies operate in emerging markets. In the first essay, I explore the impact of board diversity, female director representation, to be specific, on venture performance in the context of the clean-tech industry. I posit that appointing female board of directors can help clean-tech ventures overcome legitimacy constraints. I also examine the moderating effect of venture size and environmental ideology, such that this impact is stronger for small firms, and it is stronger for clean-tech ventures operating in a high level of environmental ideology state. In the second essay, I investigate how family involvement influences corporate diversity and how does corporate governance mechanism moderate such effect. The results suggest that family involvement decreases the overall corporate diversity, but family firms present more diversity-related concerns than non-family firms. Meanwhile, I suggest that the adoption of dual-class share decreases family firms' overall diversity. My third essay addresses the question of how corporate governance affect environmental information transparency directly and indirectly through seeking external verification, as well as how the legal and business environment moderates these relationships. I find that companies with strong corporate governance mechanisms are more likely to pursue external verification to alleviate traditional agency conflicts in the emerging markets. In addition, strong internal corporate governance leads to high environmental transparency directly and indirectly via seeking external verification. The legal and business environments moderate these relationships. Overall, these three essays in hopes of filling the gaps in the literature and advance the research in the areas of CSR, corporate governance, and entrepreneurship studies.
Three Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility Business Politicians And Corruption
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Author : Dina Mohamed Kamal Kassab
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Three Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility Business Politicians And Corruption written by Dina Mohamed Kamal Kassab and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and can it be demand-driven ? Is there a business case for corporates providing the public good or should it be solely provided by the government ? Are green products over-priced and should they be taxed ? If they are, who are the beneficiaries and who are the actual tax payers ? Will results differ whether the CSR investments in question complement or substitute for the government provision of public goods ? Chapter 1 of this Ph.D. dissertation will address these questions and create a conceptual framework for further analysis in subsequent chapters of CSR as a desirable activity whereby firms provide a public good alongside the private good they produce. One of the main issues that emerge from this analysis is the need to identify and explore a new kind of dichotomy, i.e. the trade-off between market provision of public goods via CSR and its public counterpart via the government. This question gains particular importance in the context of developing countries, as well as in some developed ones, where firms have strong political ties. In Chapter 2, it is shown that politically connected firms - or, at extreme, the business politicians - may try to influence the government to reduce its provision of the public good to maximize the reputational return on their CSR investments. The mechanism goes as follows. An underprovided public good offers the opportunity for large political benefits to firms stepping in the areas where the government fails to deliver through their CSR activities. Consumers are suspicious about the true motives for which firms engage in CSR, it may be out of benevolence or political greed, however, since all firms, including the greediest and the most prosocial ones participate, politics interfering with business does not spoil firms' image since those political benefits are so large that everyone does it. We refer to this phenomenon as corruption becoming a social norm. Chapter 3 provides a strategic explanation for this phenomenon of corruption being epidemic in the economy. It explains why corruption, in the form of bribetaking, may become widespread among government agencies, for the mere reason that their efforts are interdependent.
From Green To Gold
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Author : Mark Gleim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
From Green To Gold written by Mark Gleim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
ABSTRACT: This dissertation is designed to contribute to our understanding of the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR). In particular, environmental sustainability is examined to better understand its impact on consumers and firm performance. A set of three essays examines the role, and impact, of environmental sustainability from the perspective of consumers. As firms continue to employ environmentally sustainable marketing strategies, ultimately consumers have the final say regarding the effectiveness of such efforts. An examination of CSR research in marketing, as well as other business disciplines, is first presented to better understand the limitations and opportunities that exist. Next, Essay 1 contains a multi-method analysis of the barriers to green consumption to better understand why environmentally friendly products continue to represent only a small portion of total purchases.
Empirical Essays On Entrepreneurship And Corporate Social Responsibility
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Author : Aaron Chatterji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Empirical Essays On Entrepreneurship And Corporate Social Responsibility written by Aaron Chatterji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
This dissertation is comprised of three essays on entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility (CSR). In the first essay, I find that prior employment in the medical device sector has a positive impact on performance due to non-technical knowledge gained at the parent firm. In the second essay, I examine the validity of CSR ratings and find low validity across ratings, implying that there is uncertainty about the underlying construct of CSR. The third essay studies the impact of local contracting set aside programs on minority entrepreneurship and finds that minority entrepreneurship increased between 2.5%-5% after the introduction of these programs.
Three Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility Csr
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Author : Ruoke Yang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Three Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility Csr written by Ruoke Yang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
My findings point to a world in which the ratings business is primarily catering to a large group of trusting investors who buy ratings not for the value of information but for the value of institutional certification. The third essay examines the ratings of a recently emerged rating agency competitor and find its ratings are of no better predictive quality. I introduce a novel set of measures, `corporate badness (CB) ratings', for corporate environmental and social performance. In contrast to the leading commercial ratings, worse CB ratings correctly predict more future corporate bad behavior out-of-sample. These CB ratings provide a way to study ratings disagreement, which can be used to disentangle greenwashing from the other information contained in the leading commercial CSR ratings.
Corporate Social Responsibility
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Author : Dustin Bradley Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Corporate Social Responsibility written by Dustin Bradley Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Essay three concerns the evaluation and selection of opportunities by socially oriented entrepreneurs. Utilizing a conjoint methodology this paper finds three attributes of social opportunities which significantly influence potential opportunity ratings; namely, proximity, pervasiveness, and impact. A significant interaction between financial returns and pervasiveness but not proximity and impact suggests SEs are conscious of economic concerns and will select opportunities that satisfy both conditions but only in certain instances. The paper concludes that the relationship between social and financial value creation is more complex than previously thought.
Corporate Social Responsibility
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Author : Mark S. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Corporate Social Responsibility written by Mark S. Schwartz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Business & Economics categories.
The essays in this volume examine the emergence of the concept of corporate social responsibility, and the uses that have been made of the language of corporate responsibility to explore the business/society relationship. The first section traces the emergence of the concept of corporate social responsibility as a way of understanding and framing the business/society relationship. Section two of the volume looks at "Definitions and ethical justifications" with a view to exploring current discussions of the nature, scope and source of the social responsibilities of corporations. Section three, "CSR and Management: Critical Reflections", explores the integration of CSR theories and justifications into business management and business management theories. Articles in the final section of the volume apply the concept of corporate social responsibility, and the theoretical frameworks and analytical tools to which it has given rise, to the examination and resolution of specific social issues arising out of the economic activities of corporations.
Essays On Sustainability And Management
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Author : Runa Sarkar
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-05-25
Essays On Sustainability And Management written by Runa Sarkar and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-25 with Business & Economics categories.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of sustainability and management in India and through its insightful essays highlights the complex and multifaceted nature of sustainability as a concept. It also demonstrates the debates surrounding the concept of sustainability and its ramifications for ground-level practice in managing organisations and for public policy. The contributions from sustainability enthusiasts, practitioners from disparate fields and academics working at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, have been divided into five themes: (1) sustainability as a normative concept; (2) sustainability concept at the global level, (3) sustainability practices in Indian organisations and consumer behaviour; (4) sustainability, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility and (5) sustainability: a critique of organisational practice and government regulation. The themes reflect both new and continuing issues confronting management in the country today. Examples and in-depth studies make it relevant to the grounded reality in India. The expertise and experience of the contributors ensure that readers are left with a grasp of our current understanding of how sustainability is related to society and business, the direction this understanding will take in the future.
Social Entrepreneurship And Corporate Social Responsibility
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Author : Joan Marques
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-05
Social Entrepreneurship And Corporate Social Responsibility written by Joan Marques and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-05 with Business & Economics categories.
This book provides professionals, as well as students, with the understanding that Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are now core business principles for sustainably. It encourages social entrepreneurs in their role as forerunners, in creating new business models that develop, facilitate or implement constructive solutions to social, cultural and environmental issues. At the same time, this book views corporate social responsibility as a means of challenging existing entities to realize and modify prior unsustainable and predatory business models; and to increase social, cultural and environmental accountability. By linking these two concepts, this book prompts a paradigmatic awakening, whereby the foundational driver of business creation and management no longer rests on profit maximization, but on improvement of the quality of life for society.
Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility And Socially Responsible Investment
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Author : Vincent Lapointe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Essays On Corporate Social Responsibility And Socially Responsible Investment written by Vincent Lapointe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Our thesis examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) and how it is linked to a firm's economic and financial performance, as well as socially responsible investment (SRI). With the current environmental and economic uncertainty, these issues are attracting increasing interest. Our thesis is organized in four chapters. Chapter 1 is a literature review on CSR and SRI. We propose an interdisciplinary review of the academic literature in both economics and management sciences (ethics applied to business, strategy and finance). Chapter 2 is an empirical analysis of the relationship between CSR and a firm's financial performance in terms of cost of capital. We look at the impact of publishing an evaluation of the firm's involvement in CSR on the liquidity of its stocks and the size of its investor base. Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 are analyses of the characteristics of SRI portfolios built according to new allocation methodologies. We analyze how risk-based allocations impact the performance of the portfolios of financial products of issuers involved in CSR, and reciprocally, how a universe of investment composed of the financial products of issuers involved in CSR impacts the properties of these alternative allocations.