but rather wishful thinking by its proponents (Orlitzky‚ Schmidt & Rynes‚ 2003; Schreck‚ 2011). Therefore‚ this article aims at throwing light on the link between CSR and firm performance by assessing how CSR might influence a firm’s competitive advantage. Specifically‚ as many companies realize how important it is to attract highly skilled employees as a main component of their competitive advantage (Pfeffer‚ 1994; Teece‚ 1998; Turban & Greening‚ 1997)‚ the focus will be on the link between CSR and
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As the temperature increased‚ the enzyme activity also increased‚ however‚ only to an optimal level which was at temperature 32oC. Once the temperature was beyond the optimal level‚ the rate began to decline and this was represented by the concave curve on figure 5 and 7. This was because as the temperature increases‚ the frequency of collisions between the enzyme and the substrate also increased hence faster reaction rate. Whereas‚ the enzymes operated slowly at low temperature as there wasn’t sufficient
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Civil war and how food actually affected the war? With the fundamental to life we all need food‚ water‚ and shelter maybe the necessities of life‚ but some may argue also love is needed to live a life we want. With some great home cooking with a little love in that food you can never be mad at anyone while eating this‚ but what happens when that food isn’t available. Today‚ I researched what these civil war solders ate during this terrible time trying to steer this new nation in the their path
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Impaired driving affects both teens and adults‚ but it affects adults a lot more than it does teens. “ There is approximately one death every 53 minutes from driving impaired. Everyday in the united states 28 people die from driving while impaired.” (intoxalock.com). The problem our group came up with was how teens are better than adults while being impaired. The hypothesis we had was when teens are impaired they will be able to react to things better than adults. The experiment we had to do was
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Fifteen years ago at the watershed of the two centuries‚ business organizations across the globe faced a new environment‚ which was a far cry from the world of regulated domestic economy that was characteristic of the last century. Today‚ international markets have turned much more mercurial and volatile. Industries are undergoing quantum change‚ thanks to the unprecedented globally wide recession. The challenge is to marshal the cumulative and collective managerial experience in order to countenance
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How does longitude and latitude affect people? Latitude and Longitude both affect the weather and the temperature. The weather and temperature also affects us. The farther away from the equator the more extreme the weather is going to be. For latitude the closer you are to the equator the hotter it will be. The farther away you are from the equator the colder it will be. The region near the equator affects the most sun because of the shape of the Earth. The light also has to penetrate
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How does stress affect the immune system The immune system is designed to defend the body against millions of antigens that would otherwise invade it. None of these things are able to get in when your immune system is working efficiently‚ but the moment your immune system stops functioning properly‚ the opportunity for antigens to attack is available. Kiecolt-Glaser (1984) carried out a natural experiment investigating whether the stress of short-term stressors had an effect on immune system functioning
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the following questions: How does stress affect the policing community? Stress has many effects on the policing community as a whole. Officers may lose sleep over the stress and become fatigued which in turn causes them to lack on their duties‚ or delay their reaction time. Officers may also get so stressed that they go through a post traumatic disorder. Post traumatic disorder can cause officers nightmares‚ or worse they can wind up committing suicide. How does police culture support police
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“Key issues in Budget 2012” • Is crowding out key challenge for investment in Bangladesh? Crowding-Out: Govt. often borrows money to fund additional spending. Increased Govt. borrowing tends to increase market interest rates. The problem is that the Govt. can always pay the market interest rate but there comes a point when corporations and individuals can no longer afford to borrow. That problem is called crowding out. Because of this crowding out effect private investment started to
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Britannica). Instead St Francis preached the beauty and value of the beauty of the natural world to the masses. Artists like Leonardo Da vinci were born out of this kind of thinking‚ Leonardo Da vinci was obsessed with the anatomy of humans animals and plants alike. His obsession grew and he started to delve into things like researching the nature of flight. He would draw schematics and sort of blueprints of nature and began to document the world artistically and scientifically. Another artist born out
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