This paper raises a challenge for those who assume that corporate social responsibility and good corporate governance naturally go hand-in-hand. The recent spate of corporate scandals in the United States and elsewhere has dramatized, once again, the severity of the agency problems that may arise between managers and shareholders. These scandals remind us that even if we adopt an extremely narr...

Recent increases in the incidence of obesity and declines in marriage have prompted policymakers to implement policies to mitigate these trends. This paper examines the link between these two outcomes. There are four hypotheses (selection, protection, social obligation and marriage market) that might explain the relationship between marital status transitions and changes in Body Mass Index (BMI...

The social exchange view of commitment (R. Eisenberger, R. Huntington, S. Hutchison, & D. Sowa, 1986) suggests that employees' perceptions of the organization's commitment to them (perceived organizational support, or POS) creates feelings of obligation to the employer, which enhances employees' work behavior. The authors addressed the question of whether POS or the more traditional commitment ...

We consider the problem of decomposing a group norm into a set of individual obligations for the agents comprising the group, such that if the individual obligations are fulfilled, the group obligation is fulfilled. Such an assignment of tasks to agents is often subject to additional social or organisational norms that specify permissible ways in which tasks can be assigned. An important role o...

This paper raises a challenge for those who assume that corporate social responsibility and good corporate governance naturally go hand-in-hand. The recent spate of corporate scandals in the United States and elsewhere has dramatized, once again, the severity of the agency problems that may arise between managers and shareholders. These scandals remind us that even if we adopt an extremely narr...

We examined the ways in which the social worker is coping with obligation dilemma in an Israeli nursing home. The research was conducted using semi-structured, in-depth interviews carried out with fifteen social workers employed in nursing homes. The interviews were analysed thematically, using constant comparisons. The three themes were concerned with the social worker's place in the nursing h...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has attracted global attention in an increasingly integrated world economy. Proponents of CSR believe that the corporation is obligated to promote social progress due to its dependence on society. CSR opponents argue that these demands are unwarranted and that the corporation’s sole obligation is to maximize shareholder wealth within legal and social norms....

We provide a characterization of the obligation rules in the context of minimum cost spanning tree games. We also explore the relation between obligation rules and random order values of the irreducible cost game it is shown that the later is a subset of the obligation rules. Moreover we provide a necessary and sufficient condition on obligation function such that the corresponding obligation r...

The devastation of New Orleans as a result of Hurricane Katrina presents an opportunity and an obligation to examine the human and social factors that influenced the nation’s response to this disaster. Lessons from Katrina suggest that a social marketing approach to disaster management could increase the likelihood of positive outcomes for individuals and communities when a disaster strikes. Th...

Zusammenfassung Je nach Unterstützungswohnsitz müssen Eltern in der Schweiz die Kosten für Inanspruchnahme von Sozialpädagogischer Familienhilfe selbst übernehmen. Sind dazu nicht Lage, werden diese zumeist rückerstattungspflichtigen Sozialhilfe subsidiär übernommen. Aufgrund dieser drohenden Rückerstattungspflicht besteht Gefahr, dass trotz vorhandenem Hilfebedarf auf verzichten, um eine Versc...