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Sundquist, Pontus. "Vägen från ilska till ansvar: : En översättning om självinsikt och förlåtelse med översättningsteoretisk kommentar." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Tolk- och översättarinstitutet, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194206.
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Denna kandidatuppsats består av en egen översättning från engelska till svenska av första kapitlet från författaren Jesse Lee Petersons verk From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today. Uppsatsen består dessutom av en källtextanalys samt översättningskommentarer som exemplifierar och diskuterar översättarens tillvägagångssätt i att åstadkomma en översättning som uppnår dess syfte. Syftet har primärt varit att överföra källtextinnehållet till måltexten och den djupare förståelse som förmedlas relaterat till ilska, självinsikt, förlåtelse och ansvar, på ett sätt som samtidigt bevarar författarstilen i möjligaste mån. Detta inkluderar en överföring av författarens lättsamma stil och användning av verbala och talspråkliga drag, idiom och kulturreferenser, samt en anpassning av syntax. För att åstadkomma detta har framförallt översättningsteorier och begrepp från Benjamin Walter och Theo Hermans tillämpats under översättningsprocessen och i översättningskommentarerna.This essay is based on my own translation of the first chapter of author Jesse Lee Peterson’s work From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today, in the language pair English to Swedish. The essay also includes a source text analysis, as well as a commentary on my own translation, where the translator’s approach in achieving a target text that accomplishes its aim is discussed and exemplified. The aim has primarily been to transfer the source text’s ideational core to the target text and the deeper understanding that is being conveyed, regarding rage, insight, forgiveness and responsibility, in an equivalent manner which stays faithful to the style of the author, to the extent that is considered possible. This includes the transference of the author’s cultural references, easy going and simple stylistic approach, along with the informal and colloquial language use, as well as a syntactic target language adaptation. To achieve this, the ideas and terms from the translation theorists Benjamin Walter and Theo Hermans have been applied during the translation process and in the commentary.
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Pennington, Steven Leigh. "Road rage: Where is it coming from?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2141.
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Huttunen, Henri. "Role of RAGE as an amphoterin receptor : from development to disease." Helsinki : University of Helsinki, 2002. http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/eri/biote/vk/huttunen/.
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Lorenzi, Rodrigo. "Value of RAGE as a circulating biomarker : from sRAGE to anti-sRAGE autoantibodies." Phd thesis, Université du Droit et de la Santé - Lille II, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01059800.
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the world. The risk of CVDs increases with age, tobacco, diabetes, dyslipidemia, obesity and kidney dysfunction. The incidence and prevalence of CVDs demands the development of efficient strategies for prevention and treatment, as well as new biomarkers. The receptor for advanced glycation end-products (RAGE) is implicated in several metabolic and inflammatory disorders. RAGE activation by its multiple ligands, i.e. advanced glycation end-products (AGEs), S100 proteins and amphoterin (HMGB1) induces pro-inflammatory events upon RAGE engagement. The soluble circulating form of RAGE (sRAGE) has been proposed as a biomarker of vascular risk, disease severity and outcome, especially in individuals with diabetes or kidney dysfunction. However, data is controversial since positive and negative correlations are observed for a same disease. Nevertheless, the importance of the ligand-RAGE axis in pathological processes and the wide range of RAGE-binding molecules (from pro-inflammatory proteins to autoantibodies), appreciates the present study.In this thesis, we first investigated effects of RAGE ligands and the recently described anti-sRAGE autoantibodies on sRAGE quantification. We hypothesized that interactions between sRAGE and these molecules could impair sRAGE quantification. On the second part, we evaluated the value of sRAGE and anti-sRAGE autoantibodies as biomarkers of metabolic improvement after bariatric surgery for morbid obesity. Patients were selected from the established cohort ABOS (Lille). RAGE ligands (Nε-carboxymethyllysine, S100A6, S100A12, S100B, HMGB1 and amyloid beta peptide) bind sRAGE at different sites and could potentially impair its quantification through epitope masking. We tested this hypothesis by incubating these ligands, from physiological to pathological concentrations, with recombinant sRAGE and serum to evaluate their effects on sRAGE quantification. Anti-sRAGE autoantibodies were identified and further purified and their effects on sRAGE measurement evaluated. The presence of ligands or anti-sRAGE autoantibodies did not impair recombinant or serum sRAGE quantification. Obesity is a condition of dyslipidemia, glycemia deregulation and inflammation where RAGE is believed to play an important role. We aimed then to investigate the levels of sRAGE and its autoantibodies according to metabolic improvement in obese subjects submitted to weight loss surgery. Patients were highly selected from a well established cohort (morbidly obese patients eligible for gastric bypass, ABOS, Lille). Patients under statins treatment, with kidney dysfunction or hypertension, factors that could affect sRAGE levels, were excluded. In obese patients, significant higher levels of sRAGE and anti-sRAGE autoantibodies were observed before weight-loss surgery. In parallel to body-mass Index, both sRAGE and anti-sRAGE titers were significantly decreased one year after surgery.We demonstrate that the variations of sRAGE levels among the literature are, most likely, not due to an interaction between RAGE ligands and sRAGE. Other hypothesis like the regulation of sRAGE formation and clearance are further discussed. We have, for the first time demonstrated the presence of anti-sRAGE autoantibodies in obese subjects and that their levels decrease after bariatric surgery. Although our data suggest that morbid obese status leads to an autoimmune reactions against sRAGE. Together, our findings argue against sRAGE as a good biomarker but suggest that anti-sRAGE autoantibodies may have a potential implication to evaluate metabolic risk and autoimmunity associated to RAGE
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Kusyk, Sophia Maria. "Corporate Social Responsibility: from Construct to Praxis." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/9169.
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Aquesta tesi és organitzada en un compendi de tres articles, cada uns dels quals avança en el nostre coneixement sobre la responsabilitat social corporativa (RSC), des del constructe fins a la pràctica professional. Primerament, l'article 1, titulat "Construint La Torre de Babel: Una Aproximació Mitjançant Lògica Difusa" (escrit conjuntament amb el Dr. Josep Mª Lozano i F. Di Lorenzo), proposa i prova una aproximació epistemològica difusa per contestar a la pregunta: " Pot i hauria d'existir una definició de responsabilitat social? ". Emprant la teoria sobre conjunts difusos per a l'anàlisi sistemàtica de definicions en el camp de l'empresa i societat, demostra com aquestes definicions estan vinculades a les 3 metàfores més citades en el camp de l'empresa i societat (responsabilitat social de l'empresa (RSC), sostenibilitat corporativa (SC) i ciutadania corporativa (CC)). A continuació, l'article 2, titulat "Tipologia En Quatre Cel.les De Les Barreres i Oportunitats Clau Per a La Acció Social en les PYMEs" (escrit conjuntament amb el Dr. Josep Mª Lozano), és una revisió de literatura sobre " Quines són les barreres i oportunitats per a les PYMEs en el seu compromís amb l'acció socialment responsable (ASR)?". Aquest article proposa, partint de l'heteronimia de la notabilitat dels seus stakeholders, una tipologia de 4 classes de PYMEs en base el seu ASR. Finalment, l'article 3, titulat "Safari de Casos de Millors Pràctiques en ASR: utilitzant els prismàtics de l'orientació social de l'empresa (OSR) per identificar la RSC", és un estudi de casos multimètode, sobre la qüestió de " Com es veu la RSC a nivell empresarial? ". Les conclusions d'aquest estudi suggereixen que els dominis de la RSC són jeràrquics en la seva relació, amb l'econòmic com a base. A més, l'àmbit dels principis empresarials en matèria de RSC varia segons la seva àrea d'influència i el sentit del deure moral. En particular, l'estudi crida l'atenció sobre el domini discrecional com a factor diferencial entre les millors pràctiques en ASR i els casos de pràctiques habituals. Per acabar, aquest article construeix en la teoria sobre ASR mitjançant la integració de l'OSR i la seva reorientació per incloure el context de les PYMEs. D'aquesta forma, aquesta tesi doctoral obre diverses oportunitats per a noves línies d'investigació amb la teoria de lògica de conjunts difusos, la de RSC, CC. CS i PYMEs, i la teoria de OSR i ASR.Esta tesis está organizada en un compendio de tres artículos, cada uno de los cuales avanza en nuestro conocimiento sobre la responsabilidad social corporativa (RSC), desde el constructo hasta la práctica profesional. Primeramente, el artículo 1, titulado "Construyendo La Torre de Babel: Una Aproximación Mediante Lógica Difusa" (escrito conjuntamente con el Dr. Josep Mª Lozano y F. Di Lorenzo), propone y prueba una aproximación epistemológica difusa para contestar a la pregunta: "¿Puede y debería existir una definición de responsabilidad social?". Mediante la utilización de la teoría sobre conjuntos difusos para el análisis sistemático de definiciones en el campo de la empresa y sociedad, demuestra como estas definiciones están vinculadas a las 3 metáforas más citadas en el campo de la empresa y sociedad (responsabilidad social de la empresa (RSC), sostenibilidad corporativa (SC) y ciudadanía corporativa (CC)). A continuación, el artículo 2, titulado "Tipología En Cuatro Celdas De Las Barreras y Oportunidades Clave Para La Acción Social en las PYMEs" (escrito conjuntamente con el Dr. Josep Mª Lozano), es una revisión de literatura sobre "¿Cuales son las barreras y oportunidades para las PYMEs en su compromiso con la acción socialmente responsable (ASR)?". Este artículo propone, en base a la heteronimía de la notabilidad de sus stakeholders, una tipología de 4 clases de PYMEs en base su ASR. Finalmente, el artículo 3, titulado "Safari de Casos de Mejores Prácticas en ASR: utilizando los prismáticos de la orientación social de la empresa (OSE) para identificar la RSC", es un estudio de casos multi-método, sobre la cuestión de "¿Cómo se ve la RSC a nivel empresarial?". Las conclusiones de este estudio sugieren que los dominios de la RSC son jerárquicos en su relación, con el económico como base. Además, el ámbito de los principios empresariales en materia de RSC varía según su área de influencia y el sentido del deber moral. En particular, el estudio llama la atención sobre el dominio discrecional como factor diferencial entre las mejores prácticas en ASR y los casos de prácticas habituales. Para terminar, este artículo construye en la teoría sobre ASR mediante la integración de la OSR y su reorientación para incluir el contexto de las PYMEs. De esta forma, esta tesis doctoral abre varias oportunidades para nuevas líneas de investigación con la teoría de lógica de conjuntos difusos, la de RSC, CC. CS y PYMEs, y la teoría de OSE y ASR.
This thesis is organized in a compendium of three articles, each of which furthers our knowledge of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) from construct to practice. Firstly, article 1, entitled Constructing The Tower Of Babel: Towards A Fuzzy Logic Approach (co-authored with Dr. J.M. Lozano and F. Di Lorenzo) proposes and tests a fuzzy epistemological approach to answering the question "Does and can a definition for social accountability exist?". By employing fuzzy set theory for a systematic analysis of definitions within the business and society field demonstrates how they are linked to the 3 most cited metaphors (CSR, corporate sustainability (CS) and corporate citizenship (CC)) in the business and society field. Secondly, article 2, A Four-Cell Typology of Key Social Issue Drivers and Barriers of SME Social Performance (co-authored with Dr. J.M. Lozano) is a literature review of "What are the drivers and barriers to enterprise engagement in socially responsible action?". This article develops a small and medium sized enterprises (SME) four-cell ideal type of social issues management (SIM) response typology based on a proposed heteronomy of stakeholder salience. Thirdly, article 3, called A CSP Best Practice Case Safari: Using CSO Binoculars To Identify CSR, is an explanatory multi-method embedded multiple-case study design addressing the question of "What does corporate social responsibility at enterprise level look like?". The findings of this study suggest that the CSR domains are hierarchical in their relationship with the economic domain as a basis. Moreover that the scope of enterprise principles varies depending on their particular CSR domain influence and moral duty affiliation. In particular, the study calls attention to the discretionary domain as the differentiating factor between corporate social performance (CSP) best-practice and normal practice cases. Finally, this article builds CSP theory by integrating corporate social orientation (CSO) and reorienting it for the SME context. Therefore this thesis opens up several new lines of research opportunities for fuzzy set theory, CSR, CC, CS and SME theory, CSO and CSP theory.
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Mazzanti, Maria Rita. "From State sovereignty to responsibility to protect." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2013. https://spire.sciencespo.fr/notice/2441/45eb019724sn6sg9mcu4j489l.
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Notre étude a pour objet l’analyse des développements politiques et juridiques relatifs au concept de “Responsabilité de protéger“ (R2P). Notre recherche est conduite selon deux parcours parallèles : l’un traite de l’évolution du concept de souveraineté et de l’importance grandissante du rôle qu’assume la communauté internationale dans les affaires internes d’un Etat ; l’autre est consacré à la notion d’intervention à des fins humanitaires et des leçons qui découlent des expériences des années ‘90. Notre point de départ était que ce que la Responsabilité de protéger est ou n’est pas aujourd'hui, doit être compris à la lumière de cette évolution. Ayant délimité notre espace de recherche et identifié quels sont les éléments essentiels de la Responsabilité de protéger, nous avons evalué si, et de quelle manière la Responsabilité de protéger - après dix années d’existence - a été capable d’influencer la conduite de la communauté internationale, et, en particulier, du Conseil de Sécurité des Nations Unies. C’est pourquoi nous avons choisi d’étudier quatre cas – Libye, Côte d’Ivoire et Sri Lanka et Syrie – où la Responsabilité de protéger a été invoquée ou aurait dû l’être, pour déterminer les règles applicables à l’avenir. Nous avons adopté pour hypothèse de recherche que la Responsabilité de protéger est influencée par cinq variables indépendantes, à savoir, , la dynamique des discussions au sein du Conseil de Sécurité, la perspective d’un succès raisonnable fondée sur l’analyse coûts/bénéfices; le rôle des organisations régionales/subrégionales concernées; les activités du Conseil des droits de l´homme et l´action de la société civileThe research was aimed at understanding by means of which developments in the political and legal thinking the R2P finally reached its present shape. To this end, we analyzed on one side the evolution of the concept of absolute sovereignty and the shift towards an increased involvement of the international community in the internal affairs of the individual states, and, on the other side, the modifications incurred in the concept of intervention for humanitarian purposes and the lessons learned out of the experiences of the 1990s. We have argued that what R2P is, or is not, should be understood in the light of this long development. Having then established what now R2P is about we wanted to measure to which extent R2P was able, in the ten years of its existence, to influence the behavior of the international community, and in particular of the United Nations Security Council. Hence, we selected four cases – Libya, Côte d’Ivoire Sri Lanka and Syria – where R2P was invoked or should have been invoked, with the aim of finding regularities useful for guiding future action. Our research hypothesis was that R2P is influenced by five main independent variables, namely: the dynamic within the Security Council (active involvement of some specific countries/country representatives); reasonable perspective of success/attractive cost-benefit profile; the role of the relevant regional/sub-regional organizations; the activity of the Human Rights Council; and the action of civil society
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DeLeon, Sarah Wade Dickinson. "Jewels of Responsibility from Mines to Markets:." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2008. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/65.
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Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) are important sources of income for impoverished rural populations in many developing countries. Poor labor and environmental conditions often prevail because governments lack the capacity and sometimes the will to responsibly control ASM. At the other end of the supply chain, corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies increasingly require jeweler’s suppliers to control social and environmental aspects of mining. In a sense, jewelry and mining corporations are voluntarily taking the issue of governance into their own hands. A combination of CSR and revenue-centric development strategies has the potential to further marginalize poor, rural populations who depend on ASM. It is therefore important to examine how ASM has been affected by global social responsibility trends, why it is often left out and to find ways that ASM populations can be successfully integrated into planning for sustainable development and socially responsible business. Gemstones and gold are economically the most important global commodities for ASM populations and precious colored gemstones are rarely mined on a large-scale. Ethnographic research was undertaken to explore how global social responsibility strategies interact with local realities of ASM colored gemstone and gold production. Burma, Madagascar and Colombia each present cases with clear interaction between global CSR trends and ASM, and combined provide a range of public policies with regards to rural populations who depend on ASM. Informal interviews and industry observations were conducted with a range of stakeholders in the global precious mineral trade and mineral development sector. Semi-structured interviews were recorded with key informants for each case study and these were triangulated with internal documents, press releases and articles. Burma illustrates a case where global CSR is attempting to halt ASM because of poor governance and human rights violations. Madagascar illustrates a case where governance and education are improving but widespread poverty and a legacy of corruption has so far prevented the direct integration of ASM into CSR strategies. In the case of Colombia, one region has successfully connected ASM with the global CSR dialogue by designing and implementing a certification program to effectively valorize and govern ASM production. Major findings reveal that (1) CSR in the mineral sector is a contentious and political issue with a range of stakeholder viewpoints; (2) a bottom-up, process-oriented approach can successfully drive economic and social improvement in ASM commodity chains; and (3) community empowerment, education, youth leadership and social networking appear to be key factors for driving production of ASM minerals that can comply with social and environmental standards.
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Gottwald, Marlene. "Europe's responsibility to protect : from Kosovo to Syria." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/16229.
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With lessons learned from the 1999 Kosovo intervention as a point of departure, this thesis addresses the question of whether the development of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) doctrine and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) actually made a difference in determining whether and how Europe responded to subsequent mass atrocities in its neighbourhood. Viewing the RtoP as an emerging international norm, a social constructivist framework is applied to explore the influence of norms on European foreign policy-making. It is argued that even an emerging international norm can be influential if it is considered a legitimate behavioural claim. The influence of the RtoP will be assessed by gauging the extent to which it is distinctively used to justify foreign policy decisions and to communicate the basis for those choices to a wider audience. The development of the RtoP and the CSDP from 1999-2011 in theory and practice paves the way for an in-depth case study analysis. Focusing on the UN, the EU as well as French, German and British discourses, the question of whether the RtoP has actually made a difference will be answered by scrutinizing European responses to the Libyan crisis (March – October 2011) and the Syrian crisis (March 2011 – September 2013). Ultimately, light is shed not only on the relevance of the RtoP for Europe but also on the role of the EU as a security actor in its neighbourhood.
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WONG, Ho Yin. "Corporate social responsibility and firm performance : evidence from China." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2012. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/acct_etd/16.
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A series of China’s product safety scandals have recently aroused global concerns over the business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in China. General public believe that companies have a responsibility towards the society that goes beyond their obligation of maximizing profits. The aims of this research are to understand the development of CSR in China over the past few years and measure the effects of CSR on firm performance by examining the standalone CSR reports for the period 2008-2009. The latest data indicate that Chinese companies have been making progress in their CSR practices. The results of this study show that the prior financial performance is positively associated with CSR disclosure and the CSR disclosure has a significant and positive effect on the firm financial performance in the next year.
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Maiden, Suzanne. "Red rage : exploring the etiology and treatment of compulsive self-injurious behavior from a depth perspective /." Carpinteria, Calif. : Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2006.
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Väyrynen, V. (Valtteri). "From rage to reconciliation:the portrayal of Northern Ireland’s Troubles in Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Five Minutes of Heaven." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201612233345.
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This study examines the portrayal of Northern Ireland’s Troubles in the 2008 docudrama film Five Minutes of Heaven by Oliver Hirschbiegel. The study’s goals were to determine if the film manifests any kind of bias against Northern Ireland’s Catholics/republicans or Protestants/loyalists, and how the film relates to earlier Troubles films and their conventions. The film was analysed on the levels of content and style, with focus being divided mainly between the film’s main characters and its use of documentary film techniques. Scholarly literature dealing with earlier Troubles cinema was consulted for the purpose of comparing the film to its predecessors. The study’s findings suggest that Five Minutes of Heaven portrays the Troubles with exceptional neutrality and authenticityTässä tutkielmassa tarkastellaan, kuinka Pohjois-Irlannin konflikti on esitetty Oliver Hirschbiegelin vuoden 2008 dokudraamaelokuvassa Five Minutes of Heaven. Tutkielmassa selvitetään, onko elokuvassa nähtävissä puolueellisuutta Pohjois-Irlannin katolilaisia/republikaaneja tai protestantteja/lojalisteja vastaan, sekä lisäksi arvioidaan elokuvan suhdetta aiempiin konfliktista kertoviin elokuviin ja niiden konventioihin. Elokuvaa on tutkielmassa analysoitu sekä sisällön että tyylin kannalta keskittyen pääasiassa elokuvan päähenkilöihin ja dokumentaariseen toteutustapaan. Konfliktista kertovien elokuvien historiaa käsittelevää tieteellistä kirjallisuutta on hyödynnetty elokuvan vertaamisessa edeltäjiinsä. Tutkielmassa esitetään, että Five Minutes of Heaven käsittelee Pohjois-Irlannin konfliktia poikkeuksellisen puolueettomasti ja todenmukaisesti
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Malik, Asghar Naeem. "Stakeholders' perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) case studies from Bangladesh and Pakistan /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B3955689X.
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Perro, Ebony Le'Ann. "Coming of (R)age: Constructing Counternarratives of Black Girlhood from the Angry Decade to the Age of Rage." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2019. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/196.
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This dissertation assesses rage and its utility for fictional Black girls and adolescents in asserting their humanity, accessing their voices, and developing strategies of resistance that contribute to their identity formation. Through analyses of six novels: 1) God Bless the Child, 2) Breath, Eyes, Memory, 3) The Hate U Give, 4) The Bluest Eye, 5) Daddy Was a Number Runner, and 6) The Poet X, this research presents rage as a canonical theme in Black women’s coming-of-age narratives and presents connections between rage, rights, and resistance. The connections, revealed through stimuli and adaptations associated with rage, frame an argument for North Americas as an arbiter of anger. The novels construct an “arc of anger” that places them in conversation about Black girl rage and presents a tradition of Black women crafting Black girl protagonists who are conduits for counternarratives of rage. This dissertation also examines how history, memory, and culture contribute to Black girls’ frustrations and knowledge bases. By looking to works published between the angry decade (the 1960s) and the age of rage (the 2010s), the research presents ways Black women novelists and their characters return to rage to combat social institutions and critique social constructions of Black girlhood and womanhood.
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Malik, Asghar Naeem. "Stakeholders' perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR): case studies from Bangladesh andPakistan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3955689X.
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Smith, Lea Nancy. "Cycling safety, shifting from an individual to a social responsibility model." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ63223.pdf.
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Gomes, Mathieu. "Corporate social responsibility and capital markets : evidence from mergers and acquisitions." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017CLFAD020.
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Cette thèse se compose de trois essais empiriques qui étudient l'impact de la responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE) dans les opérations de fusions et acquisitions (F&A). Le premier chapitre traite de la relation entre la performance RSE des firmes et leur propension à faire l'objet d'offres de rachats. Nous constatons que la performance RSE des firmes est positivement liée à la probabilité qu'elles ont d'être ciblées dans le cadre d'opérations de F&A, et que la performance RSE des firmes ciblées est supérieure en moyenne à celle d'entreprises similaires mais non-ciblées. Dans le deuxième essai, nous nous intéressons à la relation entre la performance RSE des firmes ciblées dans le cadre d'opérations de F&A et la prime d’acquisition offerte par les acquéreurs. Nous constatons que la performance RSE des firmes ciblées est positivement liée à la prime d'acquisition offerte. Nous constatons que la prime d'acquisition est en partie expliquée par la performance environnementale et la performance sociale, mais que la performance sociale n’a d’impact que dans le cadre des opérations transfrontalières. Enfin, dans le troisième essai, nous analysons l'impact de la performance RSE des acquéreurs sur l'incertitude entourant les opérations de F&A. Nous trouvons une relation négative entre la performance RSE des acquéreurs et le spread d'arbitrage, suggérant que les opérations de F&A menées par des acquéreurs à forte performance RSE sont perçues comme ayant une probabilité accrue de réussite. Globalement, nos résultats suggèrent que la performance RSE détermine de manière statistiquement significative les décisions de F&A et leurs perceptions par les acteurs de marchéThis thesis consists of three empirical essays investigating the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). In the first essay, we investigate whether the CSR performance of firms impacts their propensity to become M&A targets. We find that the CSR performance of firms is positively related to takeover likelihood. We also show that the CSR performance of target firms is higher on average than the CSR performance of comparable non-target firms. In the second essay, we study the relationship between M&A targets’ CSR performance and the acquisition premium offered by acquirers. We show that CSR is positively and significantly associated with the premium offered by acquirers. We also find that the premium is explained by the environmental and social performances of firms but that social performance only commands a premium in the case of cross-border transactions. Finally, in the third essay, we analyze the impact of acquirers' CSR performance on M&A deal uncertainty. We document a negative association between arbitrage spreads and acquirers' CSR performance, showing that deal uncertainty decreases when M&A operations are initiated by high-CSR acquirers. Overall, our results suggest that CSR performance is a significant determinant of M&A decisions and expected outcomes
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Crossley, Noële. "Humanitarian intervention : from le droit d'ingérence to the responsibility to protect." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3161/.
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The thesis addresses the question of whether the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) can be considered a consolidated norm in international society today. A consolidated norm in international society is defined here as a regularised pattern of behaviour that is widely accepted as appropriate within a given social context. The analysis is premised on the assumption that R2P could be regarded as a consolidated norm if it was applied consistently when genocide and other mass atrocities occur; and if international responses would routinely conform to core principles inherent in R2P: seeking government consent; multilateralism; prevention; and regionalism. Finnemore and Sikkink’s norm lifecycle model is used to determine the putative norm’s degree of consolidation. The analysis shows that R2P had fully emerged as a prospective norm by 2005. In-depth case studies of the international responses to crises in Darfur and Kenya serve to illuminate the findings. The author concludes that the Responsibility to Protect has not, as yet, fully consolidated as an international norm. The Responsibility to Protect has been remarkably successful at pervading the international discourse but has, as yet, been somewhat less successful at consistency in implementation in terms of adherence to its core principles as outlined above (the qualitative dimension of R2P); and it has been least successful, to date, in terms of consistency across cases in terms of resolve and tenacity. The consistency-gap may, however, gradually close – which is possible, if not likely, if R2P continues on its current trajectory.
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Gupta, Sharat, John Kulen, and Botan Bozarslan. "CSR from a company perspective : A case study of Tele2 AB and Nordea Bank AB." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-19471.
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Burton, Wendy Ellen. "The voice from within, teacher stories, epistemic responsibility, and first nations education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ35395.pdf.
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Happe, Linde Hanna. "From Corporate Social Responsibility to Social Intrapreneurship : An explorative study of consultants." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35582.
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Corporations unceasing exploitation of our planet and its people have resulted in the implementation of several laws, regulations and standardisations. To please their stakeholders, corporations engage in Corporate Social Responsibility, nonetheless, few succeed in operating responsible. Social Intrapreneurship is a relatively new concept, aimed at creating long-lasting social and environmental impact, while aiding the company in its mission. Given that Corporate Social Responsibility has failed to bring sufficient social change, social intrapreneurs can be the new solution to many of the great social problems of today. The aim of this study was to examine what enables employees to engage in social intrapreneurial behaviours. Six semi-structured interviews were conducted with consultants located in Stockholm. 24 interview questions about the respondents’ corporate climate and culture, Corporate Social Responsibility work and possibilities for social innovation, were asked. The empirical findings showed that, to enable employees’ intrapreneurial behaviours, they required encouragement, clear communication, time and a network. These findings were in line with prior studies conducted in the field of intrapreneurship and social intrapreneurship.
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Morais, Mariana Rebocho Pais Belo de. "Corporate social responsibility levels and firm performance: Evidence from countries in crisis." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11693.
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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Finance from the NOVA – School of Business and EconomicsIn times of economic downturn it is of utmost importance for companies to find alternative ways to enhance their value while disregarding all activities that have the potential to destroy value. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosures inform analysts and investors about companies‟ ethical accountability and engagement towards society, possibly contributing to the overall value of a company. This paper examines the rapport between different levels of CSR disclosure and stock market performance, analyzing a sample comprised by companies from Portugal, Spain and Italy, given that these are some of the countries most affected by the 2008 financial crisis. The period covered ranges from 2008 to 2012. CSR disclosure levels are measured through the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines. Results unveil that markets value a low CSR disclosure negatively, but do not find other levels of disclosure to add value, which implies that in times of crisis a low CSR disclosure may increase information asymmetry between a company and market participants. Furthermore, an analysis of the changes in GRI reveals the existence of a positive relation between stock market returns and upward changes in CSR disclosure levels.
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Vincent, Olusegun Monsuru. "The impact of corporate environmental responsibility on financial performance : perspective from the multinational extractive sector." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7067.
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The research into the relationship between social-environmental responsibility and financial performance continues to draw the attention of both scholars and practitioners. This is because previous studies have not presented an unequivocal outcome as to the direction of causation between the two constructs. To address this obvious gap, this study explores the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility and financial performance with a focus on the extractive sector where previous studies least investigated empirically and one of the worst culprits in environmental degradation. The study explores the impact of corporate environmental responsibility on the financial performance in the extractive sector using a pooled secondary data of 101 multinational extractive companies for the period of 2008-2010 and primary data from a survey of 275 extractive sector managers. The results of this study show that there is no relationship between corporate environmental responsibility and financial performance while the environmental attitude of managers is positively related to the perceived corporate reputation of their companies. A further investigation shows that sector unique characteristics are responsible for the neutral relationship between corporate environmental responsibility and financial performance. However, some results show statistically insignificant positive relation and this points to the fact that in the long-term, poor sensitivity to the environment may not be sustainable.
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尹咏雅 and Wing-Nga Wendy Wan. "Judging the wrongdoing: blame assignment and responsibility attribution from a cross-cultural perspective." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31243691.
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Johansson, Daniel, and Bing He. "Sustainable Gambling Business : -The responsibility of companies to protect gamblers from becoming addictive." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-226606.
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Gambling availability has increased as well as the number of people gambling. Within gambling, addiction has become a growing problem, affecting both the gambling business as well as the individuals. This situation forces companies to balance their profit with responsible action in order to prevent gambling addiction. This thesis examines why and how gambling companies differ in their methods to help players avoid addiction in order to establish a sustainable society. A multiple case-study has been carried out, where three gambling companies have been examined and analyzed. The companies are Svenska Spel, Norsk Tipping and Unibet. The survey is based on interviews with representatives from the companies working in the departments of Responsible gambling or CSR. The conclusions of this study show that gambling companies can profit both economically and establish good will, if they show responsibility. Gambling companies differ in how they handle addiction, mainly because of diffuse concepts as CSR and Responsible Gambling. If gambling companies cooperate actively between themselves as well as with research of addiction, a balanced, sustainable society may be reached. Discussions of solving the problem of gambling addiction can preferably continue in order to reach a sustainable society.
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Wan, Wing-Nga Wendy. "Judging the wrongdoing : blame assignment and responsibility attribution from a cross-cultural perspective /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25205833.
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Mansell, John Norman Keith. "An analysis of flag state responsibility from an historical perspective delegation or derogation? /." Access electronically, 2007. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080905.125358/index.html.
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FREITAS, REBECA DOS SANTOS. "WHO S TO BLAME?: UNDERSTANDING LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FROM A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32564@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
A responsabilidade jurídica é, sem dúvidas, um dos institutos mais relevantes do direito, tendo em vista o seu papel de assegurar a coesão social. Dentro da tradição jurídica, os modelos explicativos sobre a atribuição de responsabilidade buscaram prescrever, a partir da uma perspectiva racional, quais os fatores que deveriam ser levados em conta a fim de produzir juízos de responsabilização de forma acurada. Segundo estes, tais juízos deveriam ser produtos de um processo iniciado pela análise causal do evento danoso, seguida da análise das intenções do agente para somente depois assinalar sua culpa e a respectiva punição. No entanto, a tais modelos tradicionais escaparam o fato de que a nossa capacidade de realizar juízos de responsabilidade está inclusa em uma complexa estrutura cognitiva a partir da qual normativizamos o mundo. Recentes descobertas de pesquisadores pertencentes aos campos das ciências cognitivas, da filosofia experimental, da psicologia moral e da psicologia social demonstraram uma inversão na forma como enxergamos o processo de atribuição de responsabilidade. As teorias e pesquisas empíricas formuladas por essas áreas apontam a ingerência da moralidade, das intuições e das emoções em conceitos considerados como neutros pela teoria do direito, como os de causalidade e intencionalidade, e na forma como as pessoas formulam seus juízos de responsabilidade. Neste trabalho busco demonstrar a influência de julgamentos morais e de processos de natureza intuitivo-afetiva sobre a tomada de decisão acerca do instituto da responsabilidade jurídica, com enfoque na responsabilidade penal. Ao final do trabalho, deixo algumas pistas investigativas sobre os impactos dessa influência para o nosso sistema penal.
Legal responsibility is, undoubtedly, one of the most relevant institutes of Law, considering its part in assuring social cohesion. Among legal tradition, the explaining models on the attribution of responsibility intend to assign, from a rational perspective, which factors should be taken in consideration in order to produce accurate responsibility judgments. According to them, such judgments should be products of a process started by the causal analysis of the harmful event, followed by the analysis of the intentions of the agent, to only later assign its blame and respective punishment. However, such traditional models miss the fact that our ability to make responsibility judgments is integrated among a complex cognitive structure from which we normatize the world. Recent discoveries from researchers of the cognitive sciences, experimental philosophy, moral psychology and social psychology fields demonstrate an inversion in the way we see the process of the attribution of responsibility. The theories and empirical researches formulated by these areas point to the interference of morality, intuitions and emotions in concepts considered as neutral by legal theory, such as the concepts of causality and intentionality, and in the way people formulate their responsibility judgments. In this work, I intend to demonstrate the influence of moral judgments and of processes of intuitive and affective nature over the decision-making about the institute of legal responsibility, focusing on criminal responsibility. At the end of this work, I trace some investigative clues about the impact of such influence on our criminal system.
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Yeh, Ping-Hsien, and 葉秉憲. "Bearing the weight of daily ethical responsibility: an Levinasian understanding of the lived experience from two families with member(s) with rare disease." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43hjb8.
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碩士國立東華大學
諮商與臨床心理學系
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For rare-disease patients, their families are primary pillars to rely on while being in the society and the world. Because of physical inabilities or social difficulties, looking for a position of well-being becomes a main issue for themselves and their families. Therefore, the medical services they perceived are mostly based on the bio-medical model and the stress-coping model which neglect the importance of the context in daily experience. In this study, the researcher interviewed a father and a mother from different families which content rare-disease patients for collecting their life experience. Using Critical Narrative Analysis as method and the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas as framework to analysis and interpret those daily saying under the cultural and social context. In the proximity of being with rare-diseases, the sense of sensitivity the temporality were used to explain the life world which conducted by the relation between the subject and the other. During the process, researcher attempted to understand the experience of subjectivity whom surrounded rare-disease patients. In the relationship co-existing with rare-disease patients, a new temporality which is different from the past will be discovered. Family members’ feeling of anxiety and responsibility, which caused by the disease, unfold the ethical adjustment and reflexivity between relatives. The growing of new horizons to the future and the world enlightens a way to ethical position in disease situation. For clinical workers, this research indicates the impossibilities of their own existing while facing suffering, and provides a possible position of looking at suffering.
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Tseng, Chiung-Ting, and 曾瓊亭. "Rage from The Pavilion – My Family, My Father and Me." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17707030225465865652.
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碩士樹德科技大學
幼兒保育學系
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How do I escape, in this academic text and space, from the bond of family, and from its shackles? How do I understand the situation of women within the family: my mother, grandmother and aunt? How do I understand my father? And myself? Rage from the Pavilion is an account of a father-daughter relationship in between two extended families. It is also the story of family, of my father, and me. I am a child who lost the women who should have raised me (my mother and my mother's mother) in quick succession; I am the responsible elder daughter of a single father; I am also a product of my family, worn down by insinuations that the women must have somehow brought about their own fate,, and by the relentless commandment to study, to achieve. Within the home, I have taken on the role of mother. So, as I support my single-father family, my independent existence is gradually eroded. While I was at graduate school, my recently retired father followed the advice of some male friends, and built a garden pavilion. Our family pavilion became a public space, a place of talk and meetings. In the pavilion, I observed men and women and their worlds, and I began to have doubts about my situation. I became angry, and my volatile mood produced the rage of the pavilion. I undertook a change of direction, towards explorations of life and away from traditional, formal research. The pavilion came to represent the end of traditional emotional bonds, and a gradual shift in the father-daughter relationship. This, then, is a story of learning and transformation, as I move back and forth between the domain of the family and the freedom of the classroom.
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Chang, Teng-wen, and 張騰文. "Gesinnung and Responsibility ─Reflection proceeding from Max Weber's Concept of "Responsibility"." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57875418343989189533.
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Palmer, David William. "Departing From Frankfurt: moral responsibility and alternative possibilities." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-466.
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One of the most significant questions in ethics is this: under what conditions are people morally responsible for what they do? Assuming that people can only be praised or blamed for actions they perform of their own free will, the particular question that interests me is how we should understand the nature of this freedom – with what kind of freedom must people act, if they are to be morally responsible for what they do?
A natural answer to this question – and the one I think is correct – is to point to the freedom to do otherwise. This is encapsulated in the principle of alternative possibilities (PAP), the principle that a person is morally responsible for what he has done only if he could have done otherwise. PAP has led many to believe that the freedom required for moral responsibility must be incompatible with determinism or the existence of God because it is plausible to argue that if determinism is true or if God exists, then people would lack genuine freedom of choice and hence could not be morally responsible for their behavior.
In the light of two important articles by Harry Frankfurt almost four decades ago, which challenged the claim that moral responsibility requires the freedom to do otherwise, compatibilism – the opposing view that the freedom for moral responsibility is compatible with determinism – has experienced a resurgence. Inspired by Frankfurt’s work, those wanting to reject PAP – typically compatibilists – attack the principle on two main grounds: directly and indirectly. First, they have argued directly that PAP is false by developing alleged counterexamples to it. Second, they have challenged PAP indirectly by arguing that there are alternative conceptions of freedom from freedom of choice that, it is claimed, are not reliant on alternative possibilities but are sufficient to capture the freedom required for moral responsibility.
My dissertation evaluates these two lines of attack on PAP. In particular, I attempt to defend the truth of PAP against both kinds of challenge.text
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Sousa, José Tiago Gonçalves de. "Social Responsibility in Banking Sector: Evidence from Europe." Dissertação, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/133141.
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O ambiente, o âmbito humanitário, a igualdade nos seus vários sentidos e as demais questões de importância social são tópicos que despertaram apontando-se para ser uma prioridade no futuro (e no presente). Nas empresas isso pode ser traduzido em Responsabilidade Social. E, entre as empresas, o sector bancário têm-se destacado.
A Responsabilidade Social no sector bancário é um tema de crescente interesse e cujo estudo carece de uma base mais metodológica. Os bancos dependem da confiança da sociedade e podem alterar comportamentos sociais pelos seus critérios de atividade. Esta dissertação apresenta um contributo para a clarificação dos conceitos e avalia, quantitativamente, o eventual impacto financeiro da Responsabilidade Social na rentabilidade dos bancos.
Os resultados deste estudo sugerem que a Responsabilidade Social não prejudica a performance financeira da generalidade dos bancos. No entanto, o estudo também sugere que há uma diferença significativa entre os bancos grandes e os bancos mais pequenos, sendo que nos bancos de maior dimensão a Responsabilidade Social tende, ceteris paribus, a melhorar a performance financeira.The environment, the humanitarian causes, the equality in its various senses and the other issues of social importance are themes that have awakened, pointing as a priority in the future (and in the present). In companies, this can be translated into Social Responsibility. And among all sectors, the banking sector has stood out. Responsibility in the Banking Sector is a topic of growing interest and whose study lacks a more methodological basis. Banks depend on the trust of society and can change social behavior through their activity criteria. This dissertation contributes to the clarification of the concepts and quantitatively accesses the potential financial impact of the Social Responsibility on the profitability of the banks. The results of this study suggest that Social Responsibility does not harm the financial profitability of most banks. However, it suggests that impact is significantly different between large banks and small banks as, ceteris paribus, a Social Responsibility improves the financial profitability of larger banks.
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Lin, Hsiao-Su, and 林筱素. "Corporate Responsibility Reports Research: Evidence From U.K. Corporations." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47671392432251555789.
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碩士輔仁大學
會計學系碩士班
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The purpose of this study is twofold. First, the study develops a performance indicator based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to measure the level of disclosure in corporate responsibility reports. The sample comprised the 100 largest U.K. firms (FTSE100) in eight industries from 2007 to 2008. The GRI is a widely acknowledged guideline for reporting the economic, environmental and social aspects of a firm’s activities. A disclosure-scoring technique is employed to analyze the scope of the reports and disclosure levels among different industries. The findings indicate that firms in the environmental sensitive industries tend to provide higher level disclosure. In addition, the results suggest that firms tend to disclose more environmental information and pay less attention to the economic information. The environmental indicators are about issues such as air emissions, energy consumption, waste and the plan reducing the impact of environment. The social indicators are about issues such as labor, health and safety. The second purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance. Under the slack resource theory, better financial position can provide a cushion that allows firms to initiate strategy with respect to CSR. In this study, the performance of CSR is determined by adopting the content analysis score, and two accounting based measures are used to determine firm profitability. The findings indicate that the levels of CSR have positive association with financial performance, which is supported for the slack resource theory.
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HUANG, CHIEN-HSIEN, and 黃倩仙. "Corporate Social Responsibility Activities and Cost Stickiness: Evidence from Taiwan Companies with Corporate Social Responsibility Reports." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4u59b3.
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碩士國立中央大學
會計研究所
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The purpose of the study is to investigate the correlation between corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and stickiness of costs. Samples are gathered from companies with CSR reports in Taiwan, and sample period range from 2014(when specified listed companies are mandatory to issue CSR report) to 2015. Annual reports are used as the basis of corporate social responsibility activities evaluation, and the study uses Anderson et al. (2013) basic model to build a model of correlation. The study may assist management in further resource distribution. Furthermore, the survey also examines discrepancy in voluntary and mandatory disclosure of CSR reporting. The findings may offer political advice for effectiveness relatable mechanism.
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Su, Shiao-Fan, and 蘇曉凡. "Corporate social responsibility and financial performance :Evidence from Japan." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46929266519416165415.
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碩士淡江大學
會計學系碩士班
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Since Japan had already promoted CSR for several years, and it is the only country in Asia, which singed for Kyoto Protocol. However, it is known that a few Japanese large businesses suffered crises due to the corruption and honest issues. Therefore, the meaning in the reverse side that enterprises deal with CSR is if only projecting a socially-friendly image in order to disguise earnings management, and then they can benefit themselves with shifting the strict supervision of the earnings management after building up the good legitimacy. The sample comprises Japan Nikkei stock index 500 firms. We use the two-stage least squares (2SLS) simultaneous equations model for the analysis. The results obtained show that when the company faces financial crisis in the last period, the enterprise would utilize CSR operation to have stakeholders to reduce to the financial condition whether the industrial environment is sensitive or not. Therefore, the enterprises will promote actively the overall evaluation of CSR, the environmental performance evaluation and societal performance evaluation. Nevertheless, the behavior that the enterprises increase CSR evaluation will enable the enterprises to raise additional CSR expenditure in short-term; at the same time, the financial situation will keep deteriorating, as a result it testifies the Trade-off hypothesis and Shift of Focus hypothesis. Furthermore, the empirical results also find that some Japanese companies are indeed using earnings management through the CSR to improve financial performance problems. The overall evaluation of CSR and societal evaluation as relatively compared to the environmental evaluation have more space for financial operations, but there is a positive and non-significant relationship. The enterprises with environmental sensitivity undertake from one of the overall evaluation of CSR, the environmental or societal performance evaluation; simultaneously, they accompanies the non-financial two-pronged strategy such as earnings management to interrupt the enterprises’ financial performance, and it is incapable to achieve better and improving performance effect. For the enterprises without environmental sensitivity, utilizing this operation mode may accomplish the certain and specific effect. Inferred that the industrial environmental sensitivity is an essential factor affecting if earnings management means can improve financial performance.
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Chuang, Chien-Hong, and 莊健鴻. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Earnings Management- Evidence from China." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/229qpv.
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碩士國立臺北商業技術學院
國際商務系碩士班
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China's economy flourished in the recent years. Having made great strides, the Chinese government, like many advanced countries around the world, began to pave way for corporations to reflect on its respective social responsibilities. It institutionalized regulations pertaining to corporate social responsibilities, which were enacted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2009. In this study, we used samples of 1168 firms from 2009 to 2012. Then we quarantined those that integrated corporate social responsibilities (CSR) with a score into their business model from those that do not, in order to observe the relationship between the enterprise and earning management. We found a negative correlation between Chinese firms that integrated CSR with a score and corporate relations for earning management. Furthermore, we used the change of resulting ranking of Chinese CSR to set as another sample of study. The results of the regression show an insignificant status, suggesting that the content of CSR change cannot reliably provide information to its investors.
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CHANG, PO-HUNG, and 張柏鴻. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Stock Liquidity: Evidence from US." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2xpmu9.
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碩士國立臺北大學
金融與合作經營學系
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This study uses the sample in US to analyze the relationship of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and stock liquidity. Hong and Kacperczyk (2009) illustrated that a moral firm can attract a larger set of investors. Bollen (2007) found that the flow in the Socially Responsible Investment of mutual funds is more stable. Balakrishnan, Billings, Kelly and Ljungqvist (2014) stated that a firm’s voluntary disclosure of its information, such as expected earnings, will help reduce information asymmetry, shape the liquidity for its stocks, and increase the value of the firm. Based on these notions, we expect a powerful link between CSR and stock liquidity. In the case of engaging in CSR, a firm has higher stock liquidity. A firm with smaller market capitalization has a better effect on stock liquidity than a firm with larger market capitalization. During the financial crisis, engaging in CSR provides an insuring effect for stock liquidity. Besides, for CSR performance, we find CSR performance has a significant effect after the financial crisis. Surprisingly, diversity dimension has a significant effect for stock liquidity. Finally, we use the two-stage least squares (2SLS) method to ensure robustness and address the possibility of endogenous problem.
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TSENG, CHIH-HUNG, and 曾智弘. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Insider Selling：Evidence from Illegal Events." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/n3w2n7.
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碩士國立虎尾科技大學
企業管理系經營管理碩士班
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According to the regulation of “Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation Procedures for Verification and Disclosure of Material Information of Companies with Listed Securities”, listed firms must promptly carry out the public disclosure of related information to the market following the occurrence of an event having a material effect on shareholder wealth or the stock price. Though the perception of corporate social responsibility is pervasive in recent years, listed companies are still found to engage in illegal activities, such as violations of the Air Pollution Control Law, the Fair Trade Law, and Labor Standards Law. Given the regulation requiring listed firms to reveal corporate wrongdoings shortly after the happenings, the information asymmetry problem still exists; that is, insiders may act on negative information regarding the announcements of illegal events and sell their stockholdings in advance, thus avoiding possible losses. Therefore, this study aims to explore the role of insider selling in illegal events. Based on a sample of 1,189 illegal events between 1993 and 2016, this study examines the association of the offending firms’ insider selling behavior with the market reaction around illegal events dates, and the impact the offending firms’ insider selling on subsequent operating performance. The empirical results show that illegal events are associated with significantly negative short-term market reactions, and such reactions are positively related to the responses of insider selling announcements before illegal events, suggesting that when insider selling announcements trigger weaker price reactions, subsequent illegal events are associated with more negative market responses. Besides, we also find that the responses of insider selling announcements positively affect the follow-up insiders’ actual fulfilled transfer ratio. Furthermore, the offending firms experience significant decline in subsequent operating performance, where the offending firms with pre-illegality insider selling announcements experience worse operating performance than those without. In addition, the substantial increases in turnover provide further evidence on the flow of information from pre-illegality insider trading. These findings are robust to alternative test implementations and controlling for endogeneity concerns. Overall, empirical results indicate that dissemination of information on insider selling before illegal events can influence the price reactions to the announcements of firm illegality, supporting the argument that insider trading provides a useful leading indicator of future economic prospects.
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"Moral Agency And Responsibility: Lessons From Autism Spectrum Disorder." Tulane University Digital Library, 2016.
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Hsieh, Ting-Hung, and 謝定宏. "The Responsibility of Product Endorsers From Public Law Viewpoint." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26686071648358388332.
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碩士東吳大學
法律學系
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Recently, there is an increasing popularity and tendency of enterprises using endorsements and testimonials in their advertisements. In order to increase the sale volume, popularity or recognition of its product or service, it is indeed reasonable for an enterprise to either appoint celebrity, expert (organization) or invite consumers to share their experiences and hence become spokesman for its product or service. Television stars, movie actors, famous athletes and even dead personalities are widely used to endorse products. By definition, a celebrity is a well-known personality who is known to the public for his or her accomplishments in areas other than the product class endorsed. Advertisers are willing to pay huge salaries to celebrities who are favoured by target audiences and who will, it is hoped, favourably influence consumers’ attitudes and behaviour towards the endorsed brands. For the most part, such investments are justified.However, if the content of such endorsed advertisement is false and misleading, then, it is not only difficult to protect consumption rights and interests of the general public that bought the advertised product or service as a result of believing the endorsers, furthermore, the other counterparts in the market that have operated properly will faced disadvantageous in competition. In light of the mentioned cases, the celebrity endorsement in false or deceptive advertising can be defined as a wrong committed by a celebrity for his or her false or misleading misrepresentation of the actual facts of the endorsed products. In General, the misrepresentation can be classified into three types: dishonest testimonials; unsubstantiated claims; and inducing expression. Therefore, not only regulations must be enacted to further restrain these forms of false testimonial and endorsement advertisements , but also we need to discuss further about the scope on protection of freedom of speech as well as the responsibility on administrative jurisprudence. This theses raise “ the two-track theory” as a judging base on constitutional level of discussion, therefore ,we should take into account on the differences between ”content-based regulation” and ”content-neutral regulation”. Spokesmen not necessary to be celebrities ,they might be housewives or even students or just anybody else, if relative executive regulations are encouraged to take into account of the maintain the basic right of “freedom of speech” for spokesmen. While in individual cases, the regulations are also encouraged to consider on motivation of endorsement ,the business benefit quantity as well as the damages that consumer endured owing to different products or services . As for the administrative jurisprudence,” actual malice” principle is recommended in order to fulfill the real spirit on Article 14 of ”Act o Executive Punishment“ ,while judging the violation of individual executive Acts if being performed by a group together ,it is not to punish individually according to different jurisdiction ,but to creat a model of” sharing the same responsibility among each other”, in this theses ,we try to introduce the “actual malice” theory on Criminal Law into executive laws, so as to protect different endorsers with different motivations. By way of comparing different countrie’s regulation and regulations in Taiwan, we try to find a solution and made some suggestions for the reference of government employees in order to amend .
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Hou, Jia-Huei, and 侯佳蕙. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Board Members : Evidence from Mergers." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71977410839413564224.
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碩士國立東華大學
財務金融學系
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Based on the large size of mergers in the US, we examine whether the company will learn about corporate social responsibility (CSR) by mergers, and how will board members affect CSR performance. The main findings are as follows. First, if the CSR performance of target companies is better than acquirers’, it is indeed bring a positive impact on CSR performance after mergers. In other words, companies learn about CSR by mergers. Second, if target directors enter into the company after merger, the improvement of CSR performance is better than other companies which target directors do not enter into the board. Final, acquirer companies will make progress in the CSR performance after mergers by learning how to do less or improve some CSR concerns.
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Giancola, John A. "Rage from within the machine protest music, social justice, and educational reform, a collective case study /." 2009. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/etd,130758.
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Delorey, James M. "From Rage (and Love) to Stage: Musical Reinforcement of Narrative Themes in the Stage Musical American Idiot." 2014. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/10.
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American Idiot, the Broadway musical by the band Green Day and theater veteran Michael Mayer, embodies the experience of a generation of Americans. The story revolves around youths coming of age during the presidency of George W. Bush, living through the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, two wars, ever increasing media and technology saturation, and a breakdown of the suburban ideal. As the primary theme and the driving force in the dramatic action of American Idiot, the characters’ internal struggle between rage and love is reinforced through several devices present in the music. There are four notable ones. First, allusion to a variety of rock styles and songs highlight themes of disillusionment, alienation, and false hope. Second, the use of recurring musical material draws connections in the storyline, promotes continuity, and creates foreshadowing. Third, the modification of songs from their original versions reinforce dramatic climaxes, and fourth, the use of specific styles to represent characters adds to their depth and significance. In order to provide context for the musical, this thesis will examine some of its antecedents and influences. The three most important of these are the history of Green Day and its members, the position of American Idiot in the rock opera genre, and the transformation of the original 2004 album into the 2010 Broadway musical. Finally, an examination of youth and suburbia in America at the turn of the twenty-first century will demonstrate the connection to themes expressed in the narrative of American Idiot.
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Ko, Chien-Chen, and 葛建成. "A criminal responsibility of malpractice-A view from clinical physician." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94833439211853641215.
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碩士國立中正大學
法律所
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Crimanal responsibility of malpractice always hurts medical clinician. We can''t accept the record of "criminal". In this artical, we discuss the elements of an unpremeditated criminal responsibility in medical behavior, including duty of care, explanation and information to the patients, and causality in malpractice.Then, we try to apply all these views in clinical practice. We hope it can lower the incitance which clinicians involve in criminal malpractice. We also suggest the "critical guidelines" to be the rules of medical and judicial field.
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汪庭竹. "From R&D, Innovation to Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20122071650399937340.
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碩士逢甲大學
科技管理研究所
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‘‘What’s the next growing stage after technology and innovation for High-technology companies? ’’ Leading a firm from A to A+ level should be not only based on the short-term, mid-term and long-term strategies of obtaining firm’s profits, but also determined by the long-term managerial strategy and welfare creation to the society to reach the goal of firm’s sustainability. The purpose of this study is to explore ways of improving the effectiveness of corporate innovation capability and corporate sustainability by a strategic corporate social responsibility (SCSR) through interactions among enterprises and external-enterprises knowledge sharing and top managers leading. This study aims to evaluate the relations among variables from the viewpoints of organizational structure, organization strategy, R&;D talent, R&;D technology, uncertainty in environment, stakeholders in environment, corporate innovation capability, corporate sustainability and SCSR. In methodology, this study aims to use case study to explore the successful factors; then, design the questionnaire to find out the result and analysis the key factor for High-technology companies. Based on the case study analysis of a traditional company in electro-acoustic industry, this study finds that the factor of corporate social responsibility (CSR) not only benefits the public society and stakeholders, but also influences a firm&;#39;s competitiveness and business model. Moreover, creating a strategic corporate social responsibility (SCSR), based on the existed deployments of R&;D and innovation development, provides the impetus for firms to pursuit their sustainability. The results in this study assert that SCSR as derived from corporate innovation capability has a significant positive relationship with the performance of corporate sustainability. In addition, the other controlling variables such as organizational structure and R&;D talent do not have significant impact on the corporate innovation capability in high-technology industries.
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Wang, Tsung-Cheng, and 王宗政. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Cost of Equity －Evidence from Taiwan." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43xyzc.
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碩士淡江大學
財務金融學系碩士班
101
The relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm’s financial performance is well-documented in prior studies, but the impact of CSR on cost of equity is relative rare. Theoretically, firm with CSR tends to have larger investor base and lower perceived risks. The characteristics of less-risky provide firms with an advantageous position of financing, namely, enjoying a lowered risk premium and thus cost of equity. Using industrial companies listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange from 2005 to 2011, we examine whether a firm with CSR tends to have lower cost of equity. Our results show that CSR-firm tends to have lower cost of equity. The evidence supports the positive linkage between CSR and the ease of equity financing, and establish the linkage that a favorable cost of equity is a channel through which financial markets encourage firms to be more socially responsible. The main result does not change among various specification of regression estimation, employing two-stage estimation and separation of full samples into high-tech companies versus non-high-tech ones.
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HSU, CHIA-CHEN, and 許佳禎. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Financing Constraints: Evidence from Illegal Events." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hpt92q.
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碩士國立虎尾科技大學
企業管理系經營管理碩士班
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According to the regulation of “Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation Procedures for Verification and Disclosure of Material Information of Companies with Listed Securities”, offending firms must promptly carry out the public disclosure of related information to the market when they occurs a disaster, group protest strike, environmental pollution, or any other material event that will result in a material loss or fines for one single event accumulating to NT$1 million or more. Obviously, firms are faced with a heavy fine following an illegal event occurrence and such firms are deemed to encounter capital concerns. Therefore, the association between financial constraints and illegal events is an open question. Based on a sample of 1,153 illegal events between 1993 and 2016, this study examines the impact of financial constraints before illegal events on the market reaction around illegal event dates, and on the financial constrains after illegal events. Following prior research, we use the Kaplan-Zingales Index (KZ index) to measure the level of financial constraints before and after illegal events. The empirical results show that illegal events are associated with significantly negative short-term market reactions, and such reactions are negatively related to the level of financial constraints in the year before illegal events, suggesting that firms with severer capital constraints before illegal events trigger more negative price reactions around illegal event dates. Besides, we also find that firms with severer capital constraints before illegal events firms experience significant improvements in post-illegal financial constraints, with the association driven mainly by firms with lower growth opportunities. Furthermore, such firms with lower growth opportunities are found to improve the level of capital constraints via decreasing capital investments.
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HUANG, CHENG-YING, and 黃丞瑩. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Dividend Policy: Evidence from Illegal Events." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82w3q8.
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碩士國立虎尾科技大學
企業管理系經營管理碩士班
106
Prior research on corporate payout policy documents that the firms tend to maintain a stable dividend policy and will not decrease or increase their dividends casually, unless they are confronted by unexpected situations or assure their earnings of stable growth in the future (Linter, 1956). However, with the disclosure of illegal events, we wonder whether the firms’ dividend policy remains or whether these firms will adjust their dividend policy to restore investors’ belief. Based on a sample of 1,145 illegal events from TEJ database between 1993 and 2016, this study examines the changes of the offending firms’ cash and stock dividend payments. The empirical results show that illegal events are associated with significantly negative short-term market reactions, and such reactions are positively related to the changes of stock dividends in the next year, suggesting that when illegal events trigger more negative price reactions, firms are prone to decreasing stock dividend payments. Besides, we also find that firms with lower growth opportunities tend to decrease stock dividends more remarkably, whereas those firms with higher growth opportunities and lower free cash flows tend to increase stock dividends when their illegal events are associated with more negative price reactions. Furthermore, firms with higher growth opportunities and lower free cash flows experience more significant declines in cash flow ratio and thus are prone to increasing stock dividends. These findings are robust to alternative test implementations and controlling for endogeneity concerns.
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CHAN, CHIEN, and 詹健. "Signaling through Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k6rtgn.
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碩士國立交通大學
財務金融研究所
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This study examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and takeover premium. Our findings show that target’s CSR initiatives are positively related to takeover premium. We further find that the positive association between target’s CSR initiatives and takeover premium support signaling hypothesis which suggest that CSR signals private information about targets’ future financial performance. Furthermore, we find that both corporate socially responsible behaviors and irresponsible behaviors have signaling effects on takeover premium. Finally, we find that the signaling effect of CSR on takeover premium is more pronounced for targets with higher information asymmetry.
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Chen, Ming-Hui, and 陳明輝. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Reporting Quality-Evidence from Restatements." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03570295445832034390.
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碩士國立成功大學
會計學系碩博士班
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Abstract This study examines whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) mitigates the likelihood of a financial statement restatements. I focus on restatements because it is one of the most visible forms of reporting failures and should be a good proxy for low financial reporting quality. This study also investigates whether social responsible companies pay higher fees to their auditors. Though examining the relation between CSR and audit fees, this study tries to explore whether socially responsible companies make greater investment in external audit services. By using the constituents in the FTSE4GOOD US Indexes as my CSR samples. I find that CSR companies are less likely to restate statements after controlling for audit fees and corporate governance. I also find that CSR companies pay higher audit fees. These results are consistent with CSR companies having an important effect on financial reporting quality.