In the closed-loop supply chain, many suppliers opt for self-recycling or entrust retailers to recycle. Under both recycling channels, member responsible can undertake outsource logistics services. This paper investigates how consumers’ environmental awareness and cost-saving affect optimal combination of channel logistics-service strategy. To this end, we mathematically formulate supplier-led ...

The disaggregation and geographic dispersion of global value chains (GVCs) have expanded the responsibility international buyers from firm-level corporate social (CSR) towards sustainability their emerging country suppliers. We theorize, in this paper, that effectiveness lead firms’ GVC governance strategies for sustainability—which can be audit-based or cooperation-based—depends on local insti...

The present paper focus on ITC notebook and try to understand consumer social responsibility for  cause related brand and how their preference level changes with different firm donations, and how this activity leads to brand loyalty in long run. An experimental design with 693 participants was used. The results shows that consumers like cause related marketing campaigns and ready to do extra ef...

Introduction: Nowadays, the success of a hospital administration is not only subject to taking care of hospital internal processes but also identifying the hospital concerns about external processes that is, the social responsibility of hospitals. It seems one of the factors influencing the acceptance of social responsibility is the management style. This study is going to investigate the relat...

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...

background and purpose: responsibility among adolescents is of great significance, and families can influence sense of responsibility by creating purpose in life and developing social competence. herein, we aimed to investigate the structural model of the relationship of family functioning and social competence with sense of responsibility and mediating role of purpose in life in this relations...