This study investigates the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility and corporate philanthropy. Using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2008 to 2013, this paper examines the role of corporate environmental responsibility in corporate philanthropy and the moderating influence of the institutional environment using multilevel analysis. The results show that corporate eco-f...

The purpose of this article is to transcend the assumption that stakeholder engagement is necessarily a responsible practice. Stakeholder engagement is traditionally seen as corporate responsibility in action. Indeed, in some literatures there exists an assumption that the more an organisation engages with its stakeholders, the more it is responsible. This simple ‘more is better’ view of stakeh...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of corporate governance (CG) efficiencies among Chinese listed companies (CLCs) under different types of ownership. Employing the data of over 700 CLCs in 2006, this study looks specifically into the effects of separation of controlling and residual claim rights upon CG (specifically management turnover) and firm performance under different shareholding...

As an effective way to share corporate social responsibility, corporate donation comes forth rapidly and has become a tendency. Based on the relative study, we construct the theoretical model and analyze the relationship between corporate donation and corporate competitive advantage. The results are listed that five donation characteristics, that is, donation aims, donation methods, donation su...

Deakin University has established a major integrated corporate technology infrastructure in the last two years to enhance and bring together its distance education and on-campus education. This environment has been called Deakin Online. With Deakin Online rapidly developing, efforts are beginning to focus more fundamentally on how the potentials of the environment can be realised to create endu...

Corporate image orientation is the base of corporate image planning and the first step to implement CIS (Corporate Identify System) designing. According to different schemes and design aims, strategies adopted by corporate image orientation are different. Generally speaking, we can adopt demand adaptation, reciprocal thinking, dominance prominence, reorientation and improving the occasions to i...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the simultaneous effect of Corporate Culture and market orientation on the performance of small to medium-sized industrial manufacturing firms. To this end, a cross-sectional survey and variance based structural equation modeling was used for testing the hypotheses. The samples were selected based on a stratified sampling of commodity and specialty indust...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Corporate Governance Based on Self-Interest as an Axiom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 The Financial Crisis and Corporate Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Corporate Governance Based on Psychological Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Team Production Theory of Corporate Governan...

We present a model in which wage-setting structures explain cross-country variation in corporate governance. The model predicts a nonmonotonic relationship between the level of centralization in wage-bargaining institutions and the levels of firm ownership concentration and investor protection legislation. Low and high degrees of centralization yield less concentrated ownership and more investo...

Most companies are faced with slower growth and stronger competition nowadays. Gaining and maintaining competitive advantages becomes crucial for superior performance. Resent analysis show that competitive advantages grows increasingly out of the value of IT-Solutions. CIO therefore are urged to measure the value of their IT solutions in terms of their contribution to the companies success. In ...