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Journal articles on the topic "Corporate complexity"

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Pöltner, P., and T. Grechenig. "Organic Finance Framework: Aligning Financing Complexity with Organisational Complexity (for Innovative Companies)." International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance 11, no. 6 (December 2020): 156–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.18178/ijtef.2020.11.6.682.

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The organic finance framework is a new tool for managing the challenges of corporate financing. This framework is especially useful for small and medium-sized enterprises in the time of a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. At its core, the framework forces a rethink of the manner in which companies initiate their financing approach. In contrast to finding potential external sources of finance, the organic finance framework starts by looking at the relevant stakeholders of the company. Alternative financing methods, such as crowdfunding and crowdinvesting, have demonstrated that companies can work with potential future customers at an early stage in the company lifecycle to finance the development of an offering. Thus, the organic finance framework presents a global structural visualisation of the corporate financing domain that can help business owners to better align the lifecycle of a company with its funding sources.
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Zhao, Zhengyi, Dirk Boehe, Ralf Zurbrugg, and Jean Canil. "Hierarchical complexity and corporate opaqueness." Academy of Management Proceedings 2021, no. 1 (August 2021): 12073. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2021.12073abstract.

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Henningsson, Johan, Ulf Johanson, and Roland Almqvist. "Fund manager trust and information complexity." Qualitative Research in Financial Markets 7, no. 4 (November 2, 2015): 346–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrfm-08-2014-0023.

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Purpose – This study aims to explore fund manager use of trust to reduce information complexity concerning corporate intangible resources and sustainability and what consequences this have for corporates as providers of information. Analytically, fund managers are considered part of a system with social meaning. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative research approach is used. Data are obtained from two focus group discussions that occurred on two separate occasions. The first discussion was between four communications executives at leading Swedish companies. The second discussion was between four experienced fund managers in the Swedish financial market. Findings – The results suggest that fund managers oscillate between exhibiting trust and distrust when reducing the complexity of information on intangible resources and sustainability. Fund managers tend to trust the stable context of company information and strive to trust top management. Communicative dilemmas emerge when fund managers oscillate between trust and distrust. The fund manager disinterest in details emerges because of a reliance on a stable information context and company management. The representation dilemma emerges when narratives are used in corporate reporting. Research limitations/implications – This study contributes empirically to the knowledge concerning the social complexity of fund management. Practical implications – The paper increases the understanding of communicative difficulties for corporates to communicate with actors on the financial markets through narratives on intangible resources and sustainability. Originality/value – By focusing on the social meaning in the communication between companies and financial markets, we have contrasted the dominant view of financial economics of financial market actors as rational agents and the individualistic mode of theorizing in accordance with rational choice theory.
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Zwick, Eric. "The Costs of Corporate Tax Complexity." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 13, no. 2 (May 1, 2021): 467–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pol.20180406.

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Does tax code complexity alter corporate behavior? We investigate this question by studying the decision to claim refunds for tax losses. In a sample of 1.2 million observations from the population of corporate tax returns, only 37 percent of eligible firms claim their refund. A simple cost-benefit analysis of the tax loss choice cannot explain low take-up, motivating an exploration of how complexity alters this calculation. Research designs exploiting tax preparer switches, deaths, and relocations show that sophisticated preparers increase claim rates for small firms. Imperfect take-up has implications for measuring marginal tax rates and for the design of fiscal policy. (JEL D22, D61, E62, H25, K34)
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Clarke, S., and A. M. Tobias. "Complexity in Corporate Modelling: A Review." Business History 37, no. 1 (January 1995): 17–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00076799500000002.

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Marrewijk, Marcel van. "European corporate sustainability framework for managing complexity and corporate transformation." International Journal of Business Performance Management 5, no. 2/3 (2003): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijbpm.2003.003253.

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Khojastehpour, Morteza, Ahmed Shahriar Ferdous, and Michael Polonsky. "Addressing the complexities of managing domestic and multinational corporate brands." Corporate Communications: An International Journal 20, no. 1 (February 2, 2015): 48–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-03-2014-0016.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the differences between managing domestic corporate brands (DCBs) and multinational corporate brands (MCBs), and presents a framework highlighting six types of complexity associated with managing both forms of corporate brands in an international business context. Design/methodology/approach – This paper proposes a framework addressing six types of complexity involved in managing DCBs and MCBs drawing on the literature related to corporate branding, corporate brands, and domestic and multinational corporations. The six types of complexity examined include: strategic role, organisational structure, culture, knowledge, positioning and extended responsibility. Findings – The research identifies that DCBs have a lower degree of complexity in regard to strategic role, knowledge and positioning, but have a higher level in regard to organisational structure, cultural and extended responsibility complexity. MCBs face more complexity than DCBs across all dimensions because they operate across business environments and need to coordinate activities while adapting to environmental differences. Practical implications – The findings highlight the importance of environmental complexity for firms managing brands globally. The issues of complexity identified in this paper need to be understood if firms are to effectively build and manage their corporate brands within and across markets. Originality/value – The paper highlights the concepts of DCBs and MCBs, and identifies the factors that contribute to the complexity of managing these two types of corporate brands domestically and internationally.
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Judge, William. "The Complexity of International Corporate Governance Research." Corporate Governance: An International Review 17, no. 5 (September 2009): 525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8683.2009.00764.x.

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Haynal, George. "Corporate Statecraft and its Diplomacy." Hague Journal of Diplomacy 9, no. 4 (September 23, 2014): 393–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1871191x-12341282.

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Global corporations operate in an environment of increasing complexity. While they have in the past been able to rely on the modern state to manage much of the complexity in the external environment, as globalization proceeds they are constrained to engage in that function ever more directly. This practitioner’s piece seeks to discuss the evolving challenges for global corporations in the public realm and proposes certain approaches for the conduct of their diplomacy in managing them.
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Caldart, Adrián Atilio, and Joan Enric Ricart. "Corporate strategy revisited: a view from complexity theory." European Management Review 1, no. 1 (March 2004): 96–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.emr.1500005.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Corporate complexity"

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Mariotti, Humberto, and Cristina Zauhy. "Managing Complexity." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2014.

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This article is a brief introduction to complexity, complex thinking and complexitymanagement. Its purpose is to present an update on the applications of the complexitysciences particularly to the universe of corporations and management. It includes anexample taken from the globalized world and two more stories from the corporateenvironment. Some details on how to think about complexity and how to apply theconceptual and operative tools of complex thinking are provided. The article ends withsome remarks on personal, interpersonal and corporate benefits of the complexthinking.
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Efretuei, Ekaete Edet. "Narrative disclosures in corporate annual reports : a syntactical complexity perspective." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4930/.

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The Financial Reporting Council of the United Kingdom launched the Complexity project in 2008 to investigate the causes of complexity in annual reports, given increased concerns on the increasing size, complexity and the declining relevance of annual reports. However, to date, there is still limited academic evidence on the determinants and consequence of the complexity of annual reports, though annual reports remain increasingly complex. This thesis specifically investigates what determines the syntactical complexity of narratives in annual reports, and what is the consequence of syntactical complexity in annual report narratives. It does this by assessing in three empirical chapters (i) what firm characteristics determine the syntactical complexity in narratives, (ii) what board characteristics determine syntactical complexity in narratives, and (iii) what role do narratives play when investors react to earnings information. Syntactical complexity of narratives is measured using the fog index readability formula from computational linguistics, and the tone index measure, both widely used in assessing narratives in accounting research. The results reported in the first empirical chapter of the thesis indicate that specific characteristics of a firm determine the level of syntactical complexity of narratives. It shows that the performance of the firm, size of the firm, age of the firm, and the operations of the firm, play a role in the complexity of annual report narratives. The results reported in the second empirical chapter indicate that board composition factors determine the level of syntactical complexity of narratives. It shows that the age of directors, size of the board, percentage of female directors in the board, average board tenure and the number of nationalities in the board play a role in the level of complexity of annual report narratives. The third empirical chapter presents results indicating that the syntactical complexity of narratives increases with the Post Earnings Announcement Drift. It shows that the movement of post earnings return, in the direction of unexpected earnings, increases when management provide narratives with a more positive outlook. Overall, the results reported in this study indicate that the characteristics of the firm and the composition of the board of directors play a role in the level of complexity of annual report narratives. In addition, the results indicate that the syntactical complexity of annual report narratives, influences investors’ reaction to earnings information. These results are important for policy makers and regulatory bodies that are seeking to reduce the complexity and increase the relevance of annual reports. The results are consistent with the view that firm specific factors and the governance of the firm, are important in the narrative communication process, and that complexity of narrative communication affects resource allocation decisions.
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Nguyen, Tam Robert. "Using structural complexity to explain decision-making on corporate responsibility." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2225.

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Intra-organizational factors are an important line of inquiry to improve the explanation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) behavior in current theory and management concepts. Contributions from organizational behavior literature were used in this thesis to orient the analysis to the company’s structure in order to provide alternative explanations as to ‘why’ and ‘how’ companies addressed social responsibility issues and activities. Qualitative methods were employed to investigate the structure/decision relationship among a sample of decision processes of multinational business organizations. Conclusions suggest that social responsibility issues and activities can be treated contextually by the company, and its complexity can influence and shape the development of alternatives to address the issues and activities.
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Maitland, Roger. "Exploring emergence in corporate sustainability." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31139.

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As the impacts of climate change intensify, businesses are increasingly committing to ambitious sustainable development goals, yet an enduring disconnect remains between corporate sustainability activities and declining global environment and society. This study adopts a complexity view that reductionism associated with Newtonian thinking has played a key role in creating many of the sustainability issues now faced by humanity. This dissertation departs from the premise that sustainability needs to be integrated into an organisation and uses a complexity view to argue that corporate sustainability is a co-evolutionary process of emergence. Whilst many studies have examined how sustainability can be integrated into a business, less is known about corporate sustainability as an emergent process. To address the knowledge gap, this research answered three questions: (1) How does sustainability emerge in financial institutions? (2) What is the role of coherence in the emergence of sustainability? and (3) What conditions enable the emergence of sustainability? A mixed method sequential design was used. In the initial quantitative strand of the research, a holistic business assessment survey based on integral theory was implemented in two financial services organisations in Southern Africa. The results were analysed using self-organising maps and explored in narrative interviews in the subsequent qualitative strand of the research. The study makes three contributions to our understanding of emergence in corporate sustainability. First, by proposing four modes by which corporate sustainability is enacted; these elucidate how integral domains are enacted in corporate sustainability. Second, by clarifying the process of emergence by articulating how zones of coherence emerge between embodied and embedded dimensions. Third, by explaining how the shift to corporate sustainability occurs by means of four conditions. These contributions serve to advance our understanding of corporate sustainability as a fundamental shift in the functioning of an organisation towards coevolutionary self-organisation. It is recommended that corporate sustainability is holistically cultivated to support emergence and self-organisation, rather than being integrated through a linear process of change.
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Habtay, Solomon Russom. "Enabling industry inflection and corporate innovation : utilising complexity thinking for innovative strategic management." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53407.

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Thesis (MComm)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the new economy, many industries - more specifically those that can be replaced electronically - are generally believed to be in peril of strategic inflection points. Scrutiny of available researches on the drivers of discontinuity indicates that some strategic inflection points can be foreseen, but many cannot be anticipated, because initially inflection points emerge very small, and can often be missed, but then they suddenly strike hard without warning. A strategic point of inflection occurs when existing ways of doing business and industry structure subtly but profoundly change. This study proposed to review the application of the complexity theory to strategic management for enabling industry inflection and corporate innovation. The study describes a couple-phased complexity approach for enabling industry inflection. The first phase starts by building organisational fitness through designing complex adaptive systems, internal to the organisation, and nurturing healthy co-evolution with external key players. The application of "communities of practice" into complex adaptive systems of organisational design is demonstrated as an essential means to drive the organization to the edge of chaos through which new businesses may evolve that can potentially trigger an inflection point. The co-evolutionary approach is explained as a process to develop patterns of co-adaptation with key players, whereby co-adapters collaborate to adapt effectively, although they still remain free to compete for a prime-movers hip position. This is hypothetically postulated to be space transition at the edge of chaos at the socio-cultural business system level, where active members, driven by the moving self-organization, engage in exploratory dialogue to explore space possibilities for systemic innovations. The second phase is described in four strategic stages for enabling industry inflection and corporate innovation. The strategic inflection point begins with a definition of a customer value proposition. This leads to the co-experimentation stage where co-creators jointly experiment with diverse new business models comprising a variety of customer value propositions that appeal to different segments. The success of new business model may cause industry inflection, subsequently leading to the third stage where the inflection point creates uncertainty to both the co-creators and their competitors, because the final success of a proactive strategic inflection point depends on the market dynamics. The salient conclusion of this study is that the complexity theory does not guarantee the complete success of a proactive strategy for enabling industry inflection. An inflection point can barely result from a deliberate strategic process only. Neither is a strategic inflection point a function of perfectly unexplainable market factors. Recommendations have been provided for further research to address, among others, the conceptual gap between the scientific analysis and the non-linear assumption of the complexity theory.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Daar word in die hedendaagse ekonomie algemeen aanvaar dat baie nywerhede - in die besonder dié wat elektronies vervang kan word - gevaar loop van strategiese invalspunte. Noukeurige ondersoek van beskikbare navorsing oor die aanvoorders van diskontinuïteit dui daarop dat sommige strategiese invalspunte verwag kan word, maar baie kan nie geantisipeer word nie, aangesien invalspunte aanvanklik baie klein voorkom, en dan dikwels misgekyk kan word, maar dan slaan hulle vinnig toe, sonder waarskuwing. 'n Strategiese invalspunt kom voor wanneer bestaande maniere van sake doen en die struktuur van die industrie subtiel, maar wesenlik verander. Met hierdie navorsing is beoog om 'n oorsig te kry van die toepassing van die kompleksiteitsteorie op strategiese bestuur ten einde geleentheid te verskaf vir industrieinfleksie en korporatiewe innovering. Die navorsing beskryf 'n aantal gefaseerde kompleksiteitsbenaderings om industrie-infleksie aan te help. Die eerste fase begin met die opbou van organisatoriese geskiktheid deur die ontwerp van komplekse aanpasbaarheidstelsels wat intern aan die organisasie is en deur die kweek van gesonde koevolusie met eksterne sleutelrolspelers. Die toepassing van "algemeen aanvaarde praktyk" in komplekse aanpasbaarheidstelsels van organisatoriese ontwerp word gedemonstreer as 'n essensiële middelom die organisasie tot op die rand van chaos te dryf waardeur nuwe ondernemings kan ontwikkel wat moontlik 'n invalspunt kan veroorsaak. Die ko-evolusionêre benadering word verduidelik as 'n proses om patrone vir ko-adaptasie met sleutelrolspelers te ontwikkel, waardeur medebewerkers saamwerk om doeltreffend aan te pas, alhoewel hulle steeds vry is om vir 'n posisie as hoofkragbron mee te ding. Daar word hipoteties gepostuleer dat dit paradigmatiese oorgang op die rand van chaos op die sosiokulturele sakevlak is, waar aktiewe lede, gedryf deur die vinnig bewegende self-organisasie, betrokke raak by verkennende dialoog om die paradigmatiese moontlikhede vir sistemiese innovering te verken. Die tweede fase word in vier strategiese stadia beskryf om industrie-infleksie en korporatiewe innovering moontlik te maak. Die strategiese invalspunt begin met 'n definisie van 'n aanbieding van kliëntwaarde. Dit lei tot die ko-eksperimentele stadium waar medeskeppers gesamentlik eksperimenteer met diverse nuwe sakemodelle wat bestaan uit variasies op aanbiedings van kliëntwaarde wat vir verskillende segmente aanloklik is. Die sukses van 'n nuwe sakemodel kan moontlik industrie-infleksie veroorsaak, wat dan lei tot die derde stadium waar die invalspunt onsekerheid skep vir die medeskeppers en hulle mededingers, aangesien die finale sukses van 'n proaktiewe strategiese invalspunt van die markdinamiek afhanklik is. Die belangrikste gevolgtrekking na aanleiding van hierdie navorsmg IS dat die kompleksiteitsteorie nie die algehele sukses van 'n proaktiewe strategie verseker om industrie-infleksie te bemagtig nie. 'n Invalspunt kan beswaarlik slegs uit 'n doelbewuste industrie-infleksie voortspruit. Die strategiese invalspunt is ook nie 'n funksie van volkome onverklaarbare markfaktore nie. Aanbevelings word gemaak vir verdere navorsing wat aandag kan gee aan, onder andere, die konseptueie gaping tussen die wetenskaplike analise en die nie-lineêre aanname van die kompleksiteitsteorie.
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Barkman, Daniel, and Nils Sörensen. "Which CBSC-objectives matter? : A multiple case study of corporate managers’ focus in corporate control." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-256295.

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This study investigates which objectives in the corporate balanced scorecard (CBSC) that corporate managers in large unlisted companies focus on within corporate control. It also investigates what the explanatory factors are for the corporate managers’ focus. The CBSC was proposed to alleviate the historical financial focus of managers in control activities. This study makes a contribution by reviewing corporate managers' focus on financial and non-financial CBSC-objectives in corporate control. A multiple case study was conducted, consisting of a mutually owned and a governmentally owned company, where data was collected from semi-structured interviews, internal documents and observations. Results indicate that corporate managers from the mutually owned company primarily focused on financial and customer objectives. Corporate managers in the governmentally owned firm primarily focused on financial objectives, complemented with quality objectives. Although having a mixed influence, the perceived complexity of measures, relationship between objectives and capital market pressure promoted corporate managers’ focus. The conclusion of this study is that financial objectives are prioritised in corporate control because of the influence of the three explanatory factors.
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Dahlmann, Frederik. "Between inertia and adaptation : state and evolution of corporate environmental strategy." Thesis, University of Bath, 2009. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.512335.

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Companies in the 21st century are exposed to a variety of pressures to respond to a plethora of environmental issues. Understanding how these issues impact companies over time is, therefore, important for corporate practitioners and policy makers alike. This thesis investigates the state and evolution of corporate environmental strategy with the help of a multi-study, longitudinal research design. Theoretically grounded in complexity theory, a conceptual framework is developed that portrays organisations as open systems within which agents interact and attempt to improve organisational fitness. By conceptualising the organisational metaphor of ‘rugged fitness landscapes’, firms are depicted as complex adaptive systems searching for peaks on a constantly changing fitness landscape in order to guarantee economic long-term profit and survival. While study one examines environmental responses among a stratified sample of UK companies through repeated interviews both in 2006 and 2008, the second study draws on KLD data from S&P500 corporations for the period 1991 to 2006 by distinguishing between changes at firm and at population level. The findings suggest that the state and evolution of corporate environmental strategy are effectively subordinated to contributing towards firms’ fitness, whereby firms mostly attempt to remain profitable and obtain social legitimacy. Even over longer periods of time this behaviour has not changed markedly, except that starting from around 2004 higher levels of oil prices and lower interest rates have spurred more proactive environmental changes among a number of firms. Equally, different motivations, individuals and contextual factors appear to influence the varying patterns of evolution. The thesis fills a gap in the existing literature with respect to the lack of conceptual and empirical contributions about the evolution of corporate environmental strategy by providing new insights into how firms are responding to environmental issues over time and by extending various strands of theory.
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PILATO, VIVIANA. "THE DEPLOYMENT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: FROM INSTITUTIONAL COMPLEXITY TO STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/35760.

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La letteratura di business internazionale fornisce la prova convincente della diffusione globale di pratiche di responsabilità sociale delle imprese (RSI) e l'importante ruolo svolto dalle multinazionali (MNC) nel trasferimento di pratiche di RSI alle loro controllate estere. La tesi esplora la gestione di strategie di RSI da società controllate di MNC, spiegando il meccanismo che permette loro di bilanciare le pressioni istituzionali divergenti. Questo fenomeno è noto come ‘complessità istituzionale’, derivante dai molteplici ed eterogenee forze istituzionali a cui le controllate di multinazionali e le loro sedi sono esposte in relazione all'adozione di pratiche di RSI. Attingendo alla letteratura su RSI e teoria istituzionale, il primo articolo della tesi sviluppa un framework concettuale e un set di proposizioni da testare per studi futuri, attraverso un approccio configurazionale. Il secondo articolo della tesi esamina come le filiali di MNC gestiscono le pressioni, le barriere e i mezzi che affrontano durante la distribuzione delle loro attività di RSI in cinque paesi africani (Angola, Egitto, Ghana, Kenya e Sud Africa), attraverso 33 interviste, permettendoci di catturare alcuni modelli di variazione nella distribuzione di pratiche di RSI all'interno dei paesi in via di sviluppo. Il terzo documento della tesi analizza le pratiche di dialogo realizzate da 418 società quotate all'indice FTSE4Good in Europa, Nord America e Asia.
The international business literature provides compelling evidence for the global diffusions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices and the important role played by Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in transfer of CSR practices to their foreign subsidiaries. The thesis explores the management of CSR strategies by MNCs’ subsidiaries, by explaining the mechanism that allows them to balance divergent institutional pressures. This phenomenon is known as ‘institutional complexity’, resulting from the multiple and heterogeneous institutional forces to which MNCs’ subsidiaries and their headquarters are exposed in relation to the adoption of CSR practices. Drawing on CSR literature and institutional theory, the first paper of the thesis develops a conceptual framework and a set of propositions to be tested for future studies, through a configurational approach. The second paper examines how the MNCs’ subsidiaries manage the pressures, the barriers and the enablers they face when deploying their CSR activities in five African countries (Angola, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa), through 33 interviews, allowing us to capture some patterns of variations in CSR deployment within developing countries. The third paper analyses the stakeholder dialogue practices realized by 418 companies listed in the FTSE4Good index in Europe, North America, and Asia.
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Rosengren, Anna, Elsayed Mohamed Maher, and Niklas Eklund. "Corporate leadership development programs towards sustainability." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14780.

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With the increasing level of complexity that leaders face today, represented in the accelerating pace of technology advancement and globalization, along with the climate change indicators reaching unprecedented levels, the need for good leadership quality has become more crucial than ever. The Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development provides a systems perspective, a principle-based definition and a way to strategically move towards sustainability, however still there is a need to specify what is required for leaders to lead organizations through this process. The aim of the thesis is to explore how corporate leadership development companies can develop the essential leadership competencies to address the sustainability challenge. The study used the Key Competences in Sustainability Framework as a base to interview six leadership development companies from different areas in the world. The findings revealed that there is an essential need for self-development for leaders to handle complexity, as well as the need from leaders to create the proper conditions for their organizations to utilize the competences from the KCSF. Furthermore the results also showcased the need for standard common definition regarding sustainability.
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Filosof, Jana. "Making the general particular : practising corporate social responsibility in a UK Higher Education Institution." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/20189.

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This research deals with the ways Corporate Social Responsibility is interpreted in a UK Higher Education Institution. It evolved from my initial curiosity about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), especially the way it is taken up in daily practices. Drawing on the pragmatic tradition of John Dewey (1859-1952), Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), which gives primacy to experience, I am paying attention to my daily interactions with others. I explore what is, rather what should be. I also draw on analogies from complexity sciences, as well as on insights from sociology, psychology, anthropology and philosophy, to reflect on how the everyday practice of CSR is evolving in the interactions of interdependent players. Reflecting on the assumptions that underpin my thinking about organisations and about research, and tracing my evolving beliefs and perceptions, I have become aware of my participation in the processes that sustain and at the same time disrupt the 'community engagement' narrative of my organisation. Iterating my reflective narratives reveals how change in practice and in ideas evolves. This research was prompted by my introduction to CSR early in my academic career. The idea of organisations being responsible to their stakeholders fitted with my personal values. The more I read about the topic, the more uncomfortable I became - CSR had usually been presented in vague, general and idealised terms. So, when faced with setting up a Unit that would address the CSR of my organisation, I was left with no manual for getting on with my work. Reflecting on the feeling of helplessness, revealed my assumption that such guidance should exist, and that CSR practitioners must know how to practice the generalised idea of CSR. Exposing this and other emotions, I demonstrate how assumptions and beliefs arise in society and in the individual simultaneously. This research contributes to knowledge in this field by establishing CSR not just as an abstract idea, but as a practice within an organisation. Many authors have called for exploring CSR at the individual level, yet this call seems to remain unanswered. My research addresses this gap in literature and explores CSR from my perspective as a practitioner, thus contributing to the nascent body of literature that focuses on individual and local practice. Exploring interdependence and the emergence of CSR meant understanding that my actions have consequences, and at the same time, neither I nor any one individually can control those 2 consequences. The outcomes of our working together are at times intended and at times unintended. But they are inevitably unpredictable, because they arise in complex webs of interactions. Thinking reflexively about practising CSR has had a significant impact on my practice. I believe that my reflections will resonate with other practitioners, thus contributing to their practice.
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Books on the topic "Corporate complexity"

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Christensen, Lars Thøger. Corporate communications: Convention, complexity, and critique. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008.

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Christensen, Lars Thøger. Corporate communications: Convention, complexity, and critique. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008.

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Wolfgang, Amann, Maznevski Martha L, and Steger Ulrich, eds. Managing complexity in global organizations. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

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Stacey, Ralph D. Complexity and the experience of values, conflict and compromise in organizations. London: Routledge, 2008.

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D, Stacey Ralph, and Griffin Douglas 1946-, eds. Complexity and the experience of values, conflict, and compromise in organizations. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008.

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Sifonis, John G. Corporation on a tightrope: Balancing leadership, governance, and technology in an age of complexity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Governance: Bewältigung von Komplexität in Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, und Politik. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2009.

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Monks, Robert A. G. The Emperorʼs nightingale: Restoring the integrity of the corporation in the age of shareholder activism. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1998.

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Mackay, Andrew. Behavioural conflict: From general to strategic corporal : complexity, adaptation and influence. Shrivenham, England: Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, 2009.

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Mackay, Andrew. Behavioural conflict: From general to strategic corporal : complexity, adaptation and influence. Shrivenham, England: Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Corporate complexity"

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De Toni, Alberto F., Roberto Siagri, and Cinzia Battistella. "Responding to complexity." In Corporate Foresight, 44–58. Revised edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003099239-5.

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Nedopil, Christoph, Ulrich Steger, and Wolfgang Amann. "Corporate Governance." In Managing Complexity in Organizations, 154–69. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-28570-6_8.

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Glattfelder, James B. "The Network of Global Corporate Control." In Decoding Complexity, 95–119. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33424-5_4.

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Moshayof, Sharon. "A Critical Look at Corporate Leadership Development." In Complexity and Leadership, 115–39. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003092230-8.

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McIntosh, Malcolm. "Corporate Responsibility, Synchronicity and Complexity." In Raising a Ladder to the Moon, 83–108. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230511996_5.

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Verhezen, Peter. "Managerial Wisdom in Corporate Governance: The (Ir)Relevance of Accountability and Responsibility at Corporate Boards." In Wise Management in Organisational Complexity, 198–216. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137002655_13.

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Brioschi, Edoardo Teodoro. "Communicative business: the power of corporate communication to manage complexity." In Managing Corporate Communication, 25–50. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-29257-5_2.

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Thomsen, Steen. "Regulation Complexity and the Costs of Governance." In Corporate Governance and Business Ethics, 31–47. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1588-2_2.

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Isaksson, Lars E., and Arch G. Woodside. "The Complexity Turn to Modeling Firm Heterogeneity in Corporate Social and Financial Performance." In The Complexity Turn, 185–247. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47028-3_6.

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Filosof, Jana. "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the UK University." In Complexity and the Public Sector, 117–42. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003099925-6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Corporate complexity"

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Li, Zhen, Qing-Feng Meng, and Zhi-Wei Feng. "Complexity, Scenario Modeling and Research Prospects on Corporate Environmental Behavior." In 2015 International Conference on Energy, Environmental & Sustainable Ecosystem Development (EESED 2015). WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814723008_0081.

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Riesener, M., C. Dolle, J. Kres, and G. Schuh. "Methodology for the Assessment of Complexity in Corporate Value Networks." In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ieem45057.2020.9309881.

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MCKELVEY, BILL. ""SIMPLE RULES" FOR IMPROVING CORPORATE IQ: BASIC LESSONS FROM COMPLEXITY SCIENCE." In Proceedings of the Workshop on Organisational Networks as Distributed Systems of Knowledge. PUBLISHED BY IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS AND DISTRIBUTED BY WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9781860947339_0004.

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Zhang, Yijun, and Xuejun Wang. "Study on Corporate Culture Evolution from the View of Complexity Science." In 2008 4th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/wicom.2008.1680.

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Lee, Hun, Goce Andrevski, and Walter Ferrier. "UNTANGLING THE CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE PARADOX: THE ROLE OF COMPETITIVE ACTIVITY." In Economic and Business Trends Shaping the Future. Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Faculty of Economics-Skopje, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47063/ebtsf.2020.0029.

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A central debate in corporate social responsibility (CSR) research is whether CSR hurt or help shareholders. Our study suggests that this paradoxical tension between social and competitive activities of firms is a manageable resource-allocation decision. By disaggregating competitive activity into its different forms – intensity and complexity – we develop a model that explains how firms can alleviate the resource allocation tension to improve performance. High CSR firms can enhance short-term performance by reconfiguring its resource base and reducing competitive intensity – the frequency of competitive actions. Alternatively, they can increase long-term performance by transforming its resource base and increasing competitive complexity – the variety and novelty of competitive actions. Overall, our empirical findings suggest that the positive effect of CSR on firm performance is conditional on firms’ ability to adjust the intensity and complexity of their competitive activity. Our results are robust across competitive environments with different levels of competitive pressure.
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"MINIMIZING THE COMPLEXITY OF DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTIONS IN CORPORATE ARCHITECTURES WITH THE USE OF ASYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION." In 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. SciTePress - Science and and Technology Publications, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0002458103230330.

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WANG, JUE-MING, BAO-BAO LI, and CHENG-XUAN GENG. "RESEARCH ON THE IMPACT OF EQUITY PLEDGE ON ENTERPRISE VALUE—TAKE SMES AS AN EXAMPLE." In 2021 International Conference on Management, Economics, Business and Information Technology. Destech Publications, Inc., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12783/dtem/mebit2021/35620.

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The pledge of controlling shareholders’ equity is one of the important ways for small and medium-sized enterprises to raise funds. However, due to the complexity of controlling shareholders’ motivations for equity pledge, equity pledge has become a double-edged sword that affects the sustainable development of enterprises. This study explores the impact of controlling shareholder equity pledge on corporate value by constructing an empirical model, so as to provide suggestions for small and medium shareholders, regulatory agencies and related financial institutions. The empirical results show that the pledge of controlling shareholders’ equity is conducive to the improvement of corporate value; however, under different macro policy adjustments, the impact of equity pledges on corporate value is different. In the period of loose monetary policy, the pledge of controlling shareholders’ equity has a significant positive effect on corporate value .On the contrary, during the monetary policy tightening period, equity pledge has a significant negative impact on corporate value.
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Bellomarini, Luigi, Georg Gottlob, Andreas Pieris, and Emanuel Sallinger. "Swift Logic for Big Data and Knowledge Graphs." In Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/1.

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Many modern companies wish to maintain knowledge in the form of a corporate knowledge graph and to use and manage this knowledge via a knowledge graph management system (KGMS). We formulate various requirements for a fully fledged KGMS. In particular, such a system must be capable of performing complex reasoning tasks but, at the same time, achieve efficient and scalable reasoning over Big Data with an acceptable computational complexity. Moreover, a KGMS needs interfaces to corporate databases, the web, and machine-learning and analytics packages. We present KRR formalisms and a system achieving these goals.
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Carey, Hillary, Jonathan Cagan, Craig M. Vogel, and Laurie R. Weingart. "Corporate Decision Making and Part Differentiation: A Strategy for Customer-Driven Product Development Planning." In ASME 2002 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2002/dtm-34004.

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A model of strategic planning for product development is introduced which captures corporate decision making from the earliest planning stages to final product success, measured by cost-control and revenue generation stemming from a strong emotional response in customers. The model was created based on observation and interviews ranging from top executives to design team members from all major disciplines at a large automobile company. By mapping an approach to part differentiation based on part complexity and lifestyle (i.e., value) impact onto the decision making model, those decisions most critical to different aspects of the product are identified and more heavily emphasized. Many companies tend to drive the entire process based on cost and technology objectives as a means to maximize profit, rather than by understanding the true impact of customer response to the product as well. In bringing Design strategy decisions into the earliest phases, companies set a strategy that fulfills customer expectations while reducing conflict, delays, added costs, and improving quality. The model helps companies recognize how to structure decisions and allocate resources to appropriately balance costs and customer’s emotional response.
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Korenkov, V., S. Kuniaev, S. Semashko, and I. Sokolov. "WALT PLATFORM FOR WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT." In 9th International Conference "Distributed Computing and Grid Technologies in Science and Education". Crossref, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.54546/mlit.2021.61.58.001.

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The article describes the Web Application Lego Toolkit (WALT), which is a template-orientedplatform designed for the development of web applications of various degrees of complexity. Unlikesome other platforms, which represent a "magic black box", the main idea of WALT is to providetransparent, extensible, and modifiable tools for solving some specific problems that arise whendeveloping web applications. WALT is primarily intended for use by individual full-stack developersor small groups of developers. The article depicts the WALT architecture and provides examples of itsuse for the development of JINR corporate web applications.
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Reports on the topic "Corporate complexity"

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Zwick, Eric. The Costs of Corporate Tax Complexity. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24382.

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Inter-American Development Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan 2021-2025. Inter-American Development Bank, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003153.

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The Climate Change Action Plan describes the IDB Groups progress since 2016 to support the regions need for low-carbon and climate-resilient development finance and its plan to raise climate ambition continuously in the region. The Second Update to the Institutional Strategy specifies that cross cutting issues, including climate change, continue to hamper development and that the IDB Group will renew its commitment to address them. The climate-finance goal set in the Bahamas Resolution has been extended through its inclusion in the IDB Group Corporate Results Framework 2020- 2023 (CRF 20202023).5 At the same time, all MDBs have committed to complement tracking of their financial contributions to climate action with a new approach focused on the consistency of their support with long-term decarbonization and climate resilience efforts. To this end, MDBs have outlined a common approach to support countries to deliver on their commitments under the PA. There has also been increasing recognition of the need to measure the results of the IDB Groups climate action and the complexity it entails.
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