Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has attracted global attention in an increasingly integrated world economy. Proponents of CSR believe that the corporation is obligated to promote social progress due to its dependence on society. CSR opponents argue that these demands are unwarranted and that the corporation’s sole obligation is to maximize shareholder wealth within legal and social norms....

The effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on financial performance has important implications for enterprises, communities, and countries, and the significance of this issue cannot be ignored. Therefore, this paper proposes an integrated model to explain the influence of CSR on financial performance with intellectual capital as a mediator and industry type as a moderator. Empirical re...

Research at the individual level of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been growing rapidly. Yet we still lack a more complete understanding of why and how individuals (i.e., employees) are affected by CSR. This study contributes to that gap by exploring the relationship between CSR and employee engagement. Moreover, in order to address the problem of low levels of employee engagement in...

In high energy X-Ray production machines, such as the proposed Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) at Cornell, precise modeling of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) and its effects on a electron beam are crucial in developing an efficient and well understood system. To achieve a high quantity of X-Ray production, short bunch lengths and high charge density bunches are desired, both worsening the eff...

Purchasing by private large corporations put forth significant environmental impact in their investments of supplies and services. An increasing number of private large firms are adopting and implementing CSR (social responsibility) framework and a number of underlying policies and principles, such as SHE (safety, health, and environment). The purpose of this thesis is to examine how private mu...

This study is an attempt to find a causal relation between financial ratios and tax avoidance. Aside from direct financial responsibilities, we conjecture that firms that avoid taxes will also face indirect negative financial repercussions, such as degradation of their reputation in the investment market. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR: Corporate Social Responsibility) activities are refl...

This paper capitalizes on an institutional perspective to analyze corporate social responsibility (CSR) orientations in the Lebanese context. Specifically, the paper compiles a new theoretical framework drawing on a multi-level model of institutional flows by Scott (Institutions and organizations: ideas and interests, 2008) and the explicit/implicit CSR model by Matten and Moon (Acad Manag Rev ...

Very large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (CSR) that can recognize every sentence is one of important goals in speech recognition. Several attempts have been made to achieve very large vocabulary CSR. However, very large vocabulary CSR using a tree-trellis based decoder has not been reported. We report the performance evaluation and improvement of the “Julius” tree-trellis based decod...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an ethical framework for the marketing of corporate social responsibility. Methods The approach is a conceptual one based on virtue ethics and on the corporate identity literature. Furthermore, empirical research results are used to describe the opportunities and pitfalls of using marketing communication tools in the strategy of building a virtuou...

This research explored a conceptual framework incorporating interrelationships among corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate ability (CA), corporate reputation (CR), and CSR-related transparency on customer loyalty within the hotel context. In this study, we also analyzed consumers' propensity to support CSR initiatives through the socio-demographic indicator of gender. We used indepen...