in the past few decades, capitalist economic system has witnessed different financial crises the most important of which is the 2008 financial crisis. the crisis had different causes that the main causes are innovations and financial assets without actual backing (real underlying asset) and their developing by financial institutions. namely, financial institutions, especially banks, developed t...

Natural resource managers are often expected to achieve both environmental protection and economic development even when there are fundamental trade-offs between these goals. Adaptive management provides a theoretical structure for program administrators to balance social priorities in the presence of trade-offs and to improve conservation targeting. We used the case of Mexico's federal Payment...

Although a number of theories propose the relationship among corporate governance, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP), existing literature does not provide a consensus of the direction of that relationship, or proposes how to enlarge it social network to absorb external resources. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the relationship between...

We investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP) in a developing country context using annual report data from a sample of 131 firms over a 5 year period (2008-2012). Legitimacy theory and stakeholder theory underpin the study. We find a positive and significant relationship between CSR and CFP when using accounting measures...

This study examines the effects of gender and previous experience with financial hardship on people 's attitudes toward money in Singapore. The respondents consisted of 152 undergraduate students who attended management classes at a local university. Factor analysis of items measuring attitudes toward money revealed eight distinct dimensions. Logistic regression analysis was performed to distin...

Detection models of financial misreporting have evolved beyond basic quantitative or financial measures to include textual or linguistic characteristics of firms’ disclosures. While these textual analysis methods provide incremental power in identifying misreporting, they examine how content is being disclosed as opposed to what is being disclosed. This study introduces a novel fraud-detection ...

Using a new nationally representative survey of financial capability and experience in the UK and Ireland, I investigate the key factors that cause individuals to experience financial distress. In this context, a key area that I focus on is whether individuals’ behavioural traits, such as their capacities for self-control, planning, and patience, affect their ability to stay out of financial tr...