1. 0 Introduction This literature review examines and discusses the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance of firms in emerging markets through analysis made in relation to developing countries especially Malaysia‚ Indonesia‚ Turkey‚ Dubai‚ China and Brazil. Most of the studies examining the financial performance case for CSR show a positive association between CSR practices and financial performance (63 percent) whilst 15 percent present
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Environmental Management Systems implementation and Firms’ economic performance: an Empirical Analysis The summary version Author: K. Nishitani Student: Dang Tien Loc SUBMITTED TO UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY VIETNAM THE NETHERLAND PROGRAMME 1. Paper’s objective the purpose of this paper is to answer the question whether EMS implementation can improves a firm’s performance or not by using panel data from Japanese manufacturing firms during 1996-2007. The theoretical model used
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changes to technology which may earlier be classified as an incremental innovation can have competitive consequences of a radical one. The key concept is the distinction between component knowledge and architectural knowledge. The paper argues that firms concentrate on refining components within a stable architecture established by a dominant design‚ and consequently‚ their “information-processing capabilities” are shaped by the existing architecture. While building upon component knowledge‚ their
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Insight from industry How international firms Insight from Industry are coping with supply chain issues in China Bin Jiang Introduction A recent US-China Business Council survey found that US companies cited the supply chain-related problem as a major problem facing companies operating in China. One reason for this is the restrictions placed on providing distribution services through third parties. Foreign firms are required to import products through officially sanctioned trading companies
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Dividend Policy and Firm Performance: Hotel REITs vs. Non-REIT Hotel Companies Executive Summary. This article investigates whether the greater reliance of real estate investment trusts (REITs) relative to non-REIT corporations on external equity financing suggests greater capital market discipline of REIT management‚ or greater access to capital‚ overpaying for assets‚ overbuilding and overinvestment. Our analysis is based on a sample of sixteen hotel REITs and fifty-one non-REIT hotel corporations
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Discuss the usefulness of Dunning’s eclectic paradigm in helping us understand how firms internationalise. Introduction: Dunning Eclectic paradigm was appeared in by J.H Dunning. After this journal published‚ dunning eclectic paradigm becomes the most influential theory in research of foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational (MNE). It is used comprehensively to analysis the motivation and advantages of MNE in term of FDI. In the following essay‚ I am going to talk about the importance
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Assignment Title: Firms should seek to “get their own house in order” before seeking to manage suppliers Purchasing is a vital process of the company‚ 100% efficiency is required at all times. There must be proper organization and flexibility in this department. People working in this department should constantly evaluate the current purchasing scheme of the company and adapt to changes at all times. Purchasing department or team of a company basically seek to answer these two questions: what
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D1 - Assess the importance of addressing environmental issues for the mutual benefit of the community and individual construction firms. The importance of addressing environmental issues for a construction project that will benefit the community and local construction firms is vitally important on everyone’s agenda; it will help firm’s reputation with the local community and authority massively. This can be from using locally sourced materials e.g. materials that can be used without any bad
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Analysis of the Performance Appraisal Systems used at Bristol Omnifacts Marketing Research Firm Prepared by Lindsay Breen HR Management April 13‚ 2010 Prepared on partial fulfillment of the requirements of CM2300. Summary The purpose of this report is to determine the most commonly used performance appraisal systems‚ to examine those used at Bristol Omnifacts Research and to recommend changes which would benefit the company. Performance appraisal is important to Bristol Omnifacts
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The Impact of Ownership Structure on the Dividend Policy of Japanese Firms with Free Cash Flow Problem Aristotelis Stouraitis Lingling Wu Department of Economics and Finance City University of Hong Kong September 16‚ 2004 * Contact information: Aristotelis Stouraitis (the author who will attend the conference and present the paper)‚ Tel: (852) 2788 8450‚ Fax: (852)2788 8806‚ Email: efstoura@cityu.edu.hk. Lingling Wu‚ Tel: (852)2788 7393‚ Email: 50004340@student.cityu.edu.hk. Address : Department
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