the growth in the number and quality of businesses caused many positive results for societies. but it can potentially bring some unfavorable effects to their environment. although there issued many different definitions of social responsibility, there is lack of consensus among scholars about its definition. aside from its different and sometimes paradoxical definitions, corporate social capita...

In the winter of 2015 world leaders presented plans for keeping the global temperature rise below 2 °C due to projected climate change threats. These threats present organizations, communities, and citizens with the need to change viewing corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a voluntary luxury to being a necessity. This essay proposes refocusing CSR efforts in light of projected climate cha...

Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World: Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist? During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm to one of co...

Superstore retail organization is the popular in world as well Bangladesh. High and mid classes’ citizen urban area are preferred for shopping any groceries products from superstore. Shwapno largest growing super chain shop Bangladesh that provides all necessary commodities to customers. This study identified factors which influence brand image it drives corporate by providing perceived quality...

This study seeks to reveal the effect of service quality on customer loyalty mediated by corporate image and satisfaction at restaurant X in Surabaya. Data were collected using a questionnaire for each variable, 150 subjects with characteristics minimum age 19 years, education senior high school. analyzed SEM method help SPSS AMOS 21 software. The results showed that has an influence satisfacti...

It is widely argued that increased community participation in government decision making produces many important benefits. Dissent is rare: It is difficult to envision anything but positive outcomes from citizens joining the policy process, collaborating with others and reaching consensus to bring about positive social and environmental change. This article, motivated by contextual problems enc...

This paper introduces the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) as a tool of decision makings for the Integrated Lake Basin Management (ILBM). I show how the analytical framework is applied to one of drainage watersheds in Laguna de Bay in Philippines toward sustainable lake basin management through the ILBM-Governance project.

In this study, the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR ) disclosure on idiosyncratic risk has been investigated concerning three stakeholder theory, information asymmetry, and risk management. It also goes further and explores the impact of some corporate governance mechanisms such as ownership structure, board characteristics, and incentive contracts on this relationship. To achieve...

With previous studies that examined the importance of functional store image and CSR, this study is aimed at examining their effects in the self-congruity model in influencing store loyalty. In particular, this study developed and tested a structural model in the context of retailing industry on the self-congruity theory. Whilst much of the self-congruity studies have incorporated functional st...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility and investment efficiency with particular emphasis on the mediating role of agency cost and information asymmetry in a sample of 121 firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the time period from 2012 to 2017. The research hypotheses are tested using multivariate regression analysi...