Political scientists, economists, and legal scholars have been debating corporate social responsibility for decades.1 To that end, the financial crisis, fraud relating to Enron and Worldcom, Occupy Wall Street, and even the 2016 presidential primary debates all raise attention and concern about what corporate social responsibility is and should be in the United States. The traditional view, the...

companies strive to improve market share, grow corporate profit, and gain strategic advantage. in order to achieve these goals, supply chain competency must be placed at the heart of a company’s business model. using e-commerce and information and communication technologies (ict) in today’s changing demands of business has made organizations more responsive and flexible. e-commerce and internet...

This study contends that corporate trust is an essential prerequisite for any for-profit organisation that wants to enable and safeguard its long-term economic and organisational performance sustainably in a competitive environment (Ingenhoff & Sommer, 2010:339). In essence, corporate trust is regarded as an outcome of the systemic behaviour of a for-profit organisation, as a result of the proc...

This paper studies the effect of corporate taxes on investment. Using firm-level data on German corporations, we investigate the 2008 tax reform that cut corporate taxes by 10 percentage points. We expect heterogeneous investment responses across firms, since firms with a foreign parent have more cross-country profit shifting opportunities than domestically owned firms. Using a matching differe...

Corporate culture reflects an organization's value system and impacts the recruitment, retention, and promotion of employees. Individuals with disabilities are positively impacted by a corporate culture that espouses and establishes a diverse workforce as a priority. This article provides an overview of corporate culture and the employment of individuals with disabilities, and presents a case e...

This paper examines the readability of the chairman’s narratives, as determined by the Flesch score, of a Malaysian public listed company’s corporate reports from 1962 to 2009. It partially supports earlier studies which demonstrated that corporate reports were difficult to read, and had shown very negligible decrease in difficulty over time. Net profit to sales and readability was significantl...

today, survival and value creation in organizations depend on creative and innovative thinking as well as understanding and utilization of environmental opportunities. this research attempts to introduce the organization behavioral barriers which affect the development of corporate entrepreneurship. first, with the views of different experts, various behavioral barriers of corporate entrepreneu...