There have been numerous studies on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its relation to corporate performance. Recently, studies in this field have paid particular attention to the method of measurement in order to identify the CSR activities. One of the widely recognized measures to proxy CSR is the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) score. This paper examines the relationship b...

Default loss distribution of corporate portfolios plays a crucial role in CDO tranche pricing, tracking error calculation and profit/loss assessment of corporation systems. This work gives an efficient algorithm to calculate the default loss distribution based on Hull-White probability bucketing approach and importance sampling method. The Gaussian copula model is assumed to calculate the condi...

It is perhaps not surprising that large and global corporate law firms have prospered in the latter parts of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. A broad range of literature has revealed that corporate law firms have grown in size and geographical reach thanks to their central role in lubricating financial markets and activities from currency trading and the work of hedge funds, to mer...

Previous research on health and life insurers' financial investments has highlighted the tension between profit maximization and the public good. We ascertained health and life insurance firms' holdings in the fast food industry, an industry that is increasingly understood to negatively impact public health. Insurers own $1.88 billion of stock in the 5 leading fast food companies. We argue that...

As organizations grow larger and more distributed, the problems of maintaining corporate awareness and effective communication channels escalate. The clinical domain poses particular challenges to maintaining good corporate communications because users have limited time to access information and often have negative technology perceptions. This paper highlights how a screen saver application, in...

As organizations grow larger and more distributed, the problems of maintaining corporate awareness and effective communication channels escalate. The clinical domain poses particular challenges to maintaining good corporate communications because users have limited time to access information and often have negative technology perceptions. This article highlights how a screen saver application, ...

Ever since the 1990s, the role of call centers has been transformed from a cost to be minimized to a crucial element that performs integrated marketing functions. Call centers have become among the most crucial corporate assets to grow customer relationships and firm profits. In this paper, we formulate the traditional operation management decision of call allocations as a customer relationship...

This article presents cross-country comparisons of trends in for-profit nursing home chains in Canada, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. Using public and private industry reports, the study describes ownership, corporate strategies, costs, and quality of the 5 largest for-profit chains in each country. The findings show that large for-profit nursing home chains are increasi...

 Strategic planning aims to harness a company’s core competencies to capitalise on identified environmental opportunities and minimise or avoid environmental threats.  As marketing managers bridge the gap between company, customers, competitors and channels of distribution, they not only manage their marketing strategies, but also tend to be highly influential in business and corporate strate...