Environmental Harm and Financial Responsibility

Legal causation and responsibility for causing harm.

In the legal setting, "cause" is composed of at least two distinct components, of which only one is related to "causality" as scientists understand it. I argue that the alleged separation of the social issue of "scope of responsibility" from the objective question of scientific causality is illusory. "Scientific causality" also plays an essential social role in the legal setting.

Financial Responsibility . a Temporal Risk ?

Recent years have been characterized by an economic and financial crisis of global proportions and while the many analyses undertaken are largely able to identify its origins and causes (see, for example, Lewis, 2011), it seems much of the blame lies with the markets. Meanwhile, present austerity and credit control policies are arguably proving to be counterproductive increasing unemployment an...

Social responsibility and financial performance of banks in Iran

The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of social responsibility on the financial performance of Iranian banks. In this study, first a quantitative index was created by combination of 9 indicators of the banking system. The indicators were selected to cover the social responsibility of the country's banking system to shareholders, customers, borrowers, producers, society and the go...

Environmental Violence, Liberalism, and Responsibility

Corporate social responsibility and financial performance

This article will support on the econometrics of panel data to analyse the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the financial performance measured by several indicators. From a sample of 20 firms listed on the stock exchange of Casablanca between 2007 and 2010. Our research found a negative and significant impact of the CSR on financial performance. The negative influence is im...