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Choy, Yuk-wa, and 蔡玉澕. "The Link Management Limited : a socially responsible corporate?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207652.
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The Link REITs is the most renowned, world-wide real estate investment trust in Hong Kong since 25 November 2005. Yet, the performance of The Link REIT is controversial under the management of The Link Management Limited (“The Link”). The excellence financial performance of The Link is well known, but the non-financial performance is uncertain.
While The Link has adopted a sustainability framework for sustainability management, the three key concepts including i) CSR, ii) sustainability and iii) the building of reputational capital will be integrated into one as a prism for analysis.
“Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) is simply part of the scope under the concept of sustainability and the notion of building reputational capital is ingrained in various theories in relations to CSR and sustainability. Business that operates to comply with economic and legal responsibilities can be asserted to survive. Together with its compliance with the ethical and philanthropic responsibilities, a company could enjoy increasing competitiveness by gaining consumer confidence over a long term.
The Link has been experiencing changes in its moral system prior to its personnel change upon these years. Start from the individual level, CEO of The Link disseminated his espoused ethical values to the organizational and then to the societal level. The moral system will be examined; barriers against the dissemination of ethical practice will be addressed.
Upon The Link’s behavioural change in its ethical practice, a reputation audit which is also known as perception test will be used to test if there are perception gaps exists in between levels of the dissemination. Contrasting the existing state of The Link’s ethical performance with the desired state wanted by The Link’s key constituencies, this would help to address the perception gaps. Whether these perception gaps are opportunities to improve or challenges to overcome, it is important information for The Link to further develop and to gauge its sustainability management strategy.published_or_final_version
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Drut, Bastien. "Socially responsible investment and portfolio selection." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209829.
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This thesis aims at determining the theoretical and empirical consequences of the consideration of socially responsible indicators in the traditional portfolio selection. The first chapter studies the significance of the mean-variance efficiency loss of a sovereign bond portfolio when introducing a constraint on the average socially responsible ratings of the governments. By using a sample of developed sovereign bonds on the period 1995-2008, we show that it is possible to increase sensibly the average socially responsible rating without significantly losing in terms of diversification. The second chapter proposes a theoretical analysis of the impact on the efficient frontier of a constraint on the socially responsible ratings of the portfolio. We highlight that different cases may arise depending on the correlation between the expected returns and the socially responsible ratings and on the investor’s risk aversion. Lastly, as the issue of the efficiency of socially responsible portfolios is a central point in the financial literature, the last chapter proposes a new mean-variance efficiency test in the realistic case where there is no available risk-free asset.Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion
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Verma, Mangleshwar N. "New trends in environmental and socially responsible management in the cement manufacturing." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5373.
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This thesis explores the environmental and social responsibilities being increasingly shouldered by cement manufacturing sector and outlines a new approach for these companies to accept their responsibilities and to utilise professional approaches to address the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainable business. Managing these three dimensions in business translates corporate responsibility into an integrated responsibility for doing business profitably, ethically and in sustainable manner. This three-pronged approach is sometimes called the Triple Bottom Line. It helps companies to fulfil their more holistic Corporate Social Responsibility. A critical review of the literature led the thesis author to develop the theoretical framework for environmental and social reporting to proceed on TBL/CSR journey within the cement industry. Data were collected from TBL/CSR reports from cement companies on key environmental and social performances. Based upon those data, a questionnaire was developed to obtain more information from the leading worldwide cement companies. The combined results of the responses to the questionnaire and the quantitative data derived from the TBL/CSR reports were used to establish best practice benchmarks to serve as performance targets for the author's case study company, Oman Cement Company (OCC). The contribution to knowledge of this research is the summarisation and prioritisation of the cement industry's implementation of TBL/CSR management systems, which integrate the elements of TBL/CSR into their strategic plans and daily operational procedures. Guidelines were derived from the Global Reporting Initiative, the United Nations Global Compact and the new ISO 26000 standard, which promotes a new way of working towards innovation, value creation and incremental actions for transforming businesses to become more responsible. The contributions to practice of this research are the practical and procedural insights, gained by quantitative analysis of environmental and social indicators, into how cement companies are making improvements in their processes and products in response to climate change, economic, governmental regulations and social pressures for improvement. Based upon the findings, recommendations and timetables were developed and are being implemented within the OCC as it progresses on its TBL/CSR journey.
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Martell, Sotomayor Janette. "Socially Responsible Business Schools: A Proposed Model." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/51014.
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El propòsit d'aquesta tesi és investigar i descriure els necessaris canvis en la gestió de les escoles de negocis per arribar a ser institucions socialment responsables, i proposa com implementar el procés de canvi. Sustenta que l'educació en gestió responsable no és exclusivament una qüestió curricular, sinó que ha d'involucrar la institució en la seva totalitat perquè els estudiants es formin com a líders responsables i ètics, i proposa un model per a la transformació de les escoles de negocis cap a aquest objectiu. Aquesta tesi està constituïda per vuit articles acadèmics sobre aquest tema; el primer il•lustra la profusió de definicions, teories i enfocaments relacionats amb la Responsabilitat Social Corporativa. El segon article va contribuir a la millor comprensió de la importància de la Responsabilitat Social Universitària a través d'una revisió de la literatura sobre els seus orígens i evolució. En un següent article, titulat Escoles de Negocis Socialment Responsables: Les parts interessades demanen accions urgents, es va investigar si les parts interessades retroalimenten als degans amb suficients arguments per al canvi, i si els requisits d'acreditació de l’AACSB són coherents amb la necessària millora en l'educació de l'ètica empresarial i la responsabilitat social. Les conclusions d'aquest article van portar a la creació d'una cercle virtuós en L'avaluació d'un cercle virtuós per a escoles de negocis socialment responsables, en el qual es proposa a PRME com a centre d'unió amb les principals acreditadores i enquesta / rànquing del Beyond Grey Pinstripes (BGP), per impulsar de forma sinèrgica la transformació de les escoles de negocis. El següent article tracta sobre l'avaluació de requisits per a la classificació en el rànquing BGP, i analitza la metodologia de l'enquesta, ja que és l'única que se centra en els plans d'estudi i continguts de recerca en ètica, responsabilitat social i sostenibilitat de les escoles de negocis. Amb la convicció de la necessària transformació d'aquestes escoles, va seguir un article sobre Un canvi estratègic en les escoles de negocis per a l'educació en ètica empresarial, responsabilitat social i sostenibilitat. L'article següent va ser un co-escrit sobre l'educació empresarial responsable: No una qüestió curricular, sinó una raó de ser de les escoles de negocis, que ha posat èmfasi en la importància de desenvolupar una identitat en les escoles de negocis en relació amb l'ètica i la responsabilitat social. Finalment, tots les aportacions d'aquesta tesi culminen en la proposta d'Un model per a la transformació de les escoles de negocis en institucions socialment responsables, que centra a les persones com la raó última de tota activitat escolar, dirigint totes les polítiques i estratègies cap a una gestió socialment responsable en què les dimensions de l'ètica, responsabilitat social i sostenibilitat són incorporades i integrades en tots els aspectes de l'organització.El propósito de esta tesis es investigar y describir los necesarios cambios en la gestión de las escuelas de negocios para llegar a ser instituciones socialmente responsables, y propone cómo implementar el proceso de cambio. Sustenta que la educación en gestión responsable no es exclusivamente una cuestión curricular, sino que debe involucrarse la institución en su totalidad para que los estudiantes se formen como líderes responsables y éticos, y propone un modelo para la transformación de las escuelas de negocios hacia ese objetivo. La tesis está constituida por ocho artículos; el primero ilustra la abundancia de definiciones, teorías y enfoques relacionados con la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, a través de una revisión de literatura. El segundo artículo contribuye a la comprensión de la importancia de la Responsabilidad Social Universitaria mediante una revisión de la literatura sobre sus orígenes y evolución. Un siguiente artículo, titulado Escuelas de Negocios Socialmente Responsables: Las partes interesadas demandan acciones urgentes, se refiere a los argumentos con los que las partes interesadas demandan cambios a los decanos, y enfatiza la insuficiencia de los requisitos de acreditación de AACSB para mejorar la formación con principios éticos y de responsabilidad social. Las conclusiones de este artículo llevan a la creación de un círculo virtuoso en La evaluación de un círculo virtuoso para escuelas de negocios socialmente responsables, en el que se propone a PRME como centro de unión con las principales acreditadoras y la encuesta/ranking de Beyond Grey Pinstripes (BGP), para impulsar de forma sinérgica la transformación de las escuelas de negocios. El siguiente artículo trata sobre la Evaluación de requisitos para la clasificación en el ranking BGP y analiza la metodología de la encuesta, ya que es la única que se centra en los planes de estudio y contenidos de investigación en ética, responsabilidad social y sostenibilidad. Un siguiente artículo propone Un cambio estratégico en las escuelas de negocios para la educación en ética empresarial, responsabilidad social y sostenibilidad. El artículo que sigue, escrito en coautoría sobre la Educación empresarial responsable: No es una cuestión curricular, sino una razón de ser de las escuelas de negocios, hace hincapié en la importancia de desarrollar una identidad en relación con la ética y responsabilidad social. Por último, todos los aportes culminan en la propuesta de Un modelo para la transformación de las escuelas de negocios en instituciones socialmente responsables, que centra a las personas como la razón última de toda actividad escolar, con políticas y estrategias dirigidas hacia una gestión socialmente responsable en que las dimensiones de la ética, responsabilidad social y sostenibilidad son integradas en todos los aspectos de la organización.
The purpose of this thesis is to explore and describe what changes are necessary in the management of business schools in order for them to become socially responsible institutions, and how can the needed process of change be implemented. The thesis upholds that education in responsible business does not depend exclusively on curriculum, but should expand its scope to involve the entire institution towards the objective of educating students for becoming responsible and ethical business leaders. Consequently, a model is proposed for the transformation of a business school into a socially responsible institution. The thesis is paper-based, and comprises eight academic contributions; the first one consists in a literature review on Corporate Social Responsibility which reveals the profusion of related definitions, theories, approaches, and their development. The second paper contributes to the significance and better understanding of University Social Responsibility through a literature review of its origins and evolution. A following article, Socially Responsible Business Schools: Collective stakeholders’ voices demand urgent actions, addresses key stakeholders’ arguments that provide deans with plenty of criteria for change, and stresses the insufficiency of AACSB’s accreditation requirements to improve business ethics and social responsibility education. The conclusions of this article prompted a Virtuous circle for socially responsible business schools, which is constructed with PRME, the leading accreditation bodies, and the Beyond Grey Pinstripes (BGP) ranking for synergistically impelling the transformation of business schools. Inasmuch as the BGP survey and its Global 100 ranking form part of the proposed virtuous circle, a following article, Assessing what it takes to earn a Beyond Grey Pinstripes Ranking, addresses its significance and methodology, since it is the only one that focuses on the curricula and research content of ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability in MBA programmes. The need for the transformation of business schools is thus confirmed, and with this conviction in mind, a paper on A strategic change at business schools towards business ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability education ensued. The next article was co-authored on Responsible business education: Not a question of curriculum but a raison d’être, which stresses the importance of developing an identity in business schools in relation to ethics and social responsibility. Finally, the contributions of this thesis culminate in a proposal of A model for the transformation of business schools into socially responsible institutions, which centres people as the ultimate reason of all school activity, directing all policies and strategies towards a responsible management in which the dimensions of ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability are embedded and integrated in all aspects of the organisation.
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Korboi, Jesse B. "Socially responsible consumption : an exploratory study on the Western Cape." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20836.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2007.Socially responsible consumption plays a major role in achieving environmental sustainability in any part of the world. The aim of this investigation was to identify whether consumers in the Western Cape are socially responsible. The research was conducted using a sample of 200 consumers in the Cape Town area as a representative sample of the Western Cape. Data were gathered from respondents by means of a questionnaire. The statistical interpretation of the survey results were done by means of constructing frequency distribution tables since the data are nominal. The results of the analysis of the data pointed out that while consumers in the Western Cape demonstrated willingness to know how products are made before buying; they do not take into consideration the environmental and social impact of their purchases, meaning that they are not socially responsible consumers. Out of 167 completed questionnaires, 36% of respondents based their buying decision on the price and quality of products. This constitutes the single largest group of respondents in the survey. The results also revealed that consumers are willing to boycott products that are proven to be unethically produced, which is a positive development. Radio and television were the main sources of information for consumers about entities. In terms of the definition of moral standards, consumers proved to be idealistic, meaning that they believe that moral standards should be viewed as universal regardless of the society in which it occurs. These findings clearly indicate that while consumers in the Western Cape are not socially responsible, there are positive indications from the survey that can be used to improve the situation. Consumers' willingness to know how products are produced before buying, the willingness to boycott products proven to be produced unethically, and their idealistic view on moral standards are all positive indications for improvement. The recommendations provided in the study, if implemented, will go a long way towards making consumers more conscious about the social and environmental impact of their purchases.
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Balasubramaniam, Arun S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Socially Responsible Investing : a comparative analysis of environmental, social, governance, reputational and labor factors." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76922.
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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) aims to deliver competitive investment returns while fostering social good. It aims achieves its objective by including a firm's corporate social performance (CSP) in its investment d s . I has giesgnfct momentum over the past few years and is poised to assume a mainstream role in the asset management business. However, the scholarship on the effect of corporate social performance on a firm's corporate financial performance (CFP) is ambiguous. CSP is a complex entity made of multi-dimensional sub-components. This thesis attempts to breakdown the multi-dimensional CSP into its core constituent dimensions and to examine their inter-relationships and relationship with CFP, using statistical analysis. Two different vendor data sets were used as samples to understand if proprietary transformations made by vendors affect results. Analysis reveals that differences in factor payoff horizons, difficulties in transforming environmental, social and governance data into composite CSP ratings and the proprietary nature of such transformation could be some of the contributing factors to the ambiguity in establishing the nature of CSP-CFP relationship.
by Arun Balasubramaniam.
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Adrien-Kirby, Adam James. "An investigation into the implementation of socially and environmentally responsible procurement." Thesis, University of Bath, 2013. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589647.
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the intra-organisational processes used by businesses operating in the United Kingdom to narrow the gap between their socially and environmentally responsible procurement (SERP) policy and its implementation in buyer-supplier relationships. This is a response both to the wide variety of recent human/labour rights and environmental violations in corporate supply chains as well as to concerns that the corporate policies developed in response to stakeholder pressure regarding such violations may not be sufficient for the effective implementation of their remedy. This examination of corporate efforts to implement SERP policy initiates a line of research aimed at building a theory of internal SERP policy implementation. The theoretical lens used in the component studies of this thesis is a combination of organisational culture and the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm. The former is used to assess how top managers and procurement departments show support for SERP implementation. This is to say that aspects of their cultures are used to perceive this support. The organisational and human resources made available to the procurement department are considered to be the capabilities needed to translate this support into practice. Drawing on data from a survey of 340 buyer-supplier relationships and from two in-depth case studies of businesses operating in the United Kingdom, this thesis contributes both theoretically and empirically to the literature. Prime examples of this thesis‟ contributions include the mapping of commercial processes used to connect stakeholder rights and pressures to procurement activity; the identification of internal subgroups that affect SERP implementation; and the conceptual reconsideration of two core capabilities theorised to facilitate this process. Further research includes the replication of case studies; the consideration of supplier capabilities to implement buyer requirements; and how this research can be more aligned with extant supply chain strategy research.
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Shokeen, Priti. "Institutionalization of socially responsible investment in Canadian pension funds : a grounded-theory approach." Thesis, Kingston University, 2008. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20287/.
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The academic literature's emphasis, in the role of pension funds in socially responsible investment, remains focused on macro discussions such as the suitability of SRI for pension fund investment and normative discussions of how pension funds can be catalysts for change towards global sustainability. It is also noted by some commentators that via pension funds, the environmental, social and governance issues that underpin SRI are becoming a part of mainstream investment. These macro level claims provide very limited evidence of, or insights into, the actual functioning or close-to-reality experiences of pension funds in the context of SRI, which is vital in fully comprehending the role of pension funds in achieving sustainable business activities. This thesis investigates and analyzes the micro level developments and dynamics that hinder or facilitate integration of SRI into pension fund investment to address the above mentioned divide. Using a grounded theory approach, the thesis presents a theoretical model of institutionalization of SRI into pension fund investment. Taking a social constructionist perspective and the related concept of human agency, it proposes that cognitive factors, coupled with structural context, determine whether a pension fund integrates or discards SRI strategies in its investment processes. The model is based on in-depth case studies of three pension funds, each with certain distinguished and similar characteristics, to provide judicious explanations of what affects the institutionalization of SRI. The thesis explains how pension fund trustees and managers customize and internalize a position on SRI based on particular 'constructions' or 'interpretations' of the concept and of fiduciary responsibility. It also posits that the context of each pension fund presented in the thesis is different and that although all three have similar broader objective, i.e. to provide retirement income to its members, each has specific investment objectives, constraints and institutional environments that are unique. Thus, all pension funds or institutional investors do not have a common investment approach towards achieving their goals and cannot be categorized as principals of economic rationality in the capital market. The duality of context and agency in creating investment processes and changes within that is stressed in this thesis.
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Muller, Fredeline. "An investigation into the probability of a tabacco company to be a socially responsible corporate citizen." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96214.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.There are diverse, however mostly negative views as well as different regulations to adhere to within the tobacco industry. Given the controversy around the tobacco industry and the latest tendency of investors to move to more reputable investments, the research project explored to what extend a tobacco company can adhere to the criteria to be a socially responsible corporate citizen and therefore still attract socially responsible investors. The research identified and discussed the concerns that put the reputation of the tobacco industry for socially responsible behaviour at risk. Furthermore, the research investigated corporate governance and reporting frameworks to evaluate the tobacco industry’s corporate citizenship behaviour to be able to conclude if a tobacco company can be regarded a good corporate citizen. This study was based on a literature review and critically discussing the findings. The information obtained in this research assignment was based on secondary data collected through analysing the company’s records, corporate governance codes and socially responsible investment indices in South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States of America. The research focused on information already in the public domain so there was no need to consider the confidentiality of the information. The research identified what it entails to be a socially responsible corporate citizen in the modern era. The definition of corporate governance was discussed with special reference to the corporate governance codes within the jurisdictions of South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Furthermore, the background to the development of the different socially responsible investment indices was investigated, together with the selection criteria for inclusion on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Socially Responsible Investment, FTSE4Good and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. The FTSE4Good is the only index, which specifically excludes tobacco producers. The assignment identified some conflicting views when looking at social responsibility within the tobacco industry. It can be argued that corporate social responsibility is nothing other than a “marketing” tool for business to gain respect within the market and from government. Companies gain legitimacy and the right to do business; thus to be profitable and grow economic value. When reviewing steps taken by the industry case study it is evident the company focused a lot on addressing their consumers’ expectations to grow economic value. This seems to be a very one-sided approach, but also a very reactive approach, as the company’s sustainability agenda appears to be driven due to external pressures than being part of the core strategy of the company. It can therefore be argued that the company uses corporate social responsibility as a form of promoting the use of tobacco products and not due to being socially responsible corporate citizen. It was thus concluded that a tobacco company cannot be recognised as a socially responsible corporate citizen.
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Olausson, Alexander, and Charlie Essland. "Barriers for Responsible Investments: Facilitating a Greener Economy : -A Multiple Case Study of Asset Management Companies." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-69467.
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Purpose – The purpose of this research is to develop and contribute with an improved understanding of socially responsible investing and its barriers within the asset management sector. To accomplish the purpose of this research, four areas have been investigated; sustainability, business models, socially responsible investing, and barriers for socially responsible investing. Method – Since the research aimed to use the existing theory, and at the same time explore and gain understanding within the area of sustainable, or responsible, investments, the research approach had iterative characteristics with theoretical and empirical findings. Therefore, an abductive research approach was chosen. For the gathering of data, a multiple case study was conducted by interviewing people working within asset management companies. For the analysis of the data, constant comparison, multilevel interviews, and thematic analysis were used. Results – First, the results indicate that socially responsible investments have greatly affected the business models for asset management companies, and responsible investments are starting to become more of a hygiene factor than a way of differentiation. Second, the most significant barrier for the increase of responsible investments is preconceptions and lack of knowledge. This barrier is rooted in an underlying issue, that is lack of transparency regarding asset management companies’ investments. Furthermore, the findings indicate that government actions within the market invested in, was not such a grand barrier as presented in the literature. Theoretical contributions – The main theoretical contribution with this research is the identification of the barrier preconceptions and lack of knowledge, as this is not highlighted in the literature, but among the asset management companies it was highly significant. By analyzing the findings with an institutional theory lens, it is an understandable behavior as there are no incentives for change, hence the managerial contributions consist of regulations. Managerial contributions – The practical contributions with this report is the need for reformed regulations in the industry where asset management companies are operating, in order to increase transparency. By seeing the issue through the lens of institutional theory, it is unlikely for self-regulations to happen as the incentives are not great enough. For self-regulation to happen, the agency costs need to surpass the costs for increased responsible investments, as it would generate enough incentives for a change to happen.
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Asplund, Therese. "How Socially Responsible Investment Is Defined : An analysis of how SRI investment management firms put ethical criteria into practice." Thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, Department of Water and Environmental Studies, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-9575.
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Several organisations have called for clarifications on sustainable investment. The aim of this study is to map and compare the ethical criteria used by Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds in their assessment of companies. My attention is also to seek for clarifications on the definition on SRI. A theoretical framework has been used to identify core issues of socially responsible investment. The areas of interest are charitable giving, environmental technologies, negative and positive screening and shareholder activism. The empirical material consisted of qualitative interviews with 4 fund managers from 5 investment management firms in addition to written documents on the funds’ ethical criteria. The conclusions are that all of the funds use negative criteria in their assessment of companies, with similarities in what may be considered as unethical activity and differences in the extent. Most of the funds also seek to identify better-managed companies through an assessment of how companies comply with international agreements. Differences occur in the choices of international agreements as well as the minimum criteria for investing. Most of the investment management firms engage in shareholder activism with the aim to influence the companies’ corporate behaviour, thus with different levels of engagement. Some have dialogue with whom they invest in, some favour the idea of communicate with companies they do not invest in as well. Furthermore, the results of this study show that investments in environmental technologies are rare since these companies are too small. When it comes to charitable giving, donations to charity may be seen as SRI or may not be seen as SRI depending on if the concept refers to investment criteria.
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Nega, Fraser T. "The Relationship Between Financial Performance, Firm Size, Leverage and Corporate Social Responsibility." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4661.
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Approximately $25.2 trillion in total assets under management in the United States is involved in some strategy of socially responsible and sustainable investing. Grounded in the stakeholder theory, the purpose of this correlational study was to examine the relationships between financial performance, firm size, leverage, and corporate social responsibility. A random sample included 119 large companies located in the United States from the population of companies listed in the Russell 100 index. The data were collected via Bloomberg Terminal. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to predict Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) activity scores. The 3 predictor variables accounted for approximately 7% of the variance in ESG activity scores and the result was statistically significant, F(3,115) = 2.83, p < .04, R2 = .07. Although the p value was significant, the R2 was low representing a poor model fit. In the final analysis, total revenue was added to the model and was a significant predictor and negatively correlated with ESG activity scores; However, return on equity and leverage were not significant predictors of ESG activity scores suggesting the potential need to transfer some corporate social initiatives from business leaders to government policy makers. Future researchers should consider incorporating additional variables to make the model more useful. The implications for positive social change include the potential to identify fiscal incentives for corporate social programs by policy makers which benefit stakeholders such as employees, suppliers, customers, communities, and the environment.
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Shloma, Elena. "The financial performance of ethical funds : A comparative analysis of the risk-adjusted performance of ethical and non-ethical mutual funds in UK." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Economics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-9603.
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The review of the ethical funds literature shows the significant growth of the Socially Responsible Investments (SRI) in the last few decades. The increase of the interest towards SRI indicates that ethical issues have become more essential for the investors. However the number of surveys reveals that financial performance remains of an important concern for the socially responsible investors. Therefore the benchmark analysis of the expected returns and management fees of the ethical mutual funds is chosen as a topic for this thesis research. The risk-adjusted measures are used to analyze and compare the performance of the ethical and non-ethical mutual funds in United Kingdom. The analysis does not indicate the significant difference in the expected returns between the two groups of funds. However this study concludes that on average ethical funds charge higher management fees. Thus investing in ethical funds is more costly but gives about the same returns as investing in conventional funds.
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Обухін, В. В. "Проектування системи соціального забезпечення персоналу організації та основні напрями її здійснення, на прикладі СФГ «Колосок»." Thesis, Одеський національний економічний університет, 2021. http://local.lib/diploma/Obukhin.pdf.
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Доступ до роботи тільки на території бібліотеки ОНЕУ, для переходу натисніть на посилання нижчеУ роботі розглядаються теоретичні засади проектування соціального забезпечення персоналу СФГ «Колосок». Проаналізовано сучасний стан господарської діяльності підприємства та систему соціального забезпечення СФГ «Колосок». Запропоновано заходи щодо поліпшення системи соціального забезпечення на підприємстві СФГ «Колосок», наведено змістовні пропозиції.
The paper considers the theoretical principles of designing social security for the staff of FF «Kolosok». The current state of economic activity of the enterprise and the social security system of FF «Kolosok» are analyzed. Measures to improve the social security system at the FF «Kolosok» enterprise are proposed, and meaningful proposals are given.
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Гарбарчук, Катерина Володимирівна. "Управління розвитком персоналу підприємства на засадах соціальної відповідальності (на прикладі ПАТ «Миронівський хлібопродукт»)." Master's thesis, Київ, 2018. https://ela.kpi.ua/handle/123456789/25011.
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Магістерська дисертація на здобуття ступеня магістра на тему «Управління розвитком персоналу підприємства на засадах соціальної відповідальності» містить 116 сторінок, 18 таблиць, 30 рисунків, 3 формули, 4 додатки. Перелік посилань нараховує 61 найменування.
Враховуючи турбулентні умови середовища, тенденції, що відбуваються, обумовлюють постійне зростання людського фактору як ключового аспекту ефективності та конкурентоспроможності організації. Відтак, виховання соціально відповідального персоналу є провідним завданням для досягнення поточних і довгострокових цілей компанії з метою формування висококваліфікованого та конкурентоспроможного працівника. Таким чином, необхідний пошук інноваційних методів управління розвитком персоналу, серед яких передові позиції займає корпоративна соціальна відповідальність.
Метою роботи є обґрунтування напрямів управління розвитком персоналу підприємства на засадах соціальної відповідальності.
Досягнення поставленої мети зумовлює вирішення наступних завдань:
розглянути сутність поняття, напрями, принципи та сучасні підходи управління розвитком персоналу підприємства;
дослідити сутність та роль соціальної відповідальності в забезпеченні розвитку персоналу підприємства;
здійснити організаційно-економічну характеристику ПАТ «МХП»;
оцінити систему управління розвитком персоналу ПАТ «МХП»;
розкрити політику соціальної відповідальності ПАТ «МХП";
визначити напрями вдосконалення управління розвитком персоналу та обґрунтувати їх економічну доцільність на ПАТ «МХП».
Об’єктом дослідження є процес розвитку персоналу підприємства.
Предметом дослідження є теоретичні, науково-методичні та практичні аспекти забезпечення розвитку персоналу підприємства на засадах соціальної відповідальності.
У роботі було використано наступні методи дослідження: аналізу, синтезу, порівняння, групування, формування таблиць, графіків, прогнозування та узагальнення.
Наукова новизна: удосконалено поняття розвитку персоналу, а саме його взаємозв’язки із соціальною відповідальністю; запропоновано нові напрями розвитку персоналу на ПАТ «МХП» на засадах соціальної відповідальності.
Практичне значення отриманих результатів, полягають в обґрунтуванні пропозицій щодо процесу управління розвитком персоналу ПАТ «МХП» на засадах соціальної відповідальності. Визначено економічний ефект від реалізації запропонованих заходів.
Розроблені в роботі рекомендації та пропозиції були представлені на розгляд Департаменту управління персоналом ПАТ «МХП»», прийняті до використання (акт впровадження № 08/18 від 11.03.2018).
Публікації за обраною темою:
1. Коцко Т. А., Гарбарчук К. В., Сучасні тенденції у формуванні політики розвитку персоналу підприємства, Сучасні підходи до управління підприємством: зб. тез доп. IX Всеукр. наукю-практ. конф., 12 квітня 2018 р. – Київ: КПІ ім. Ігоря Сікорського, 2018 – 106 с.;
2. Гарбарчук К. В., Розвиток персоналу як основа ефективної реалізації соціальної відповідальності підприємства, Двадцять п’яті економіко-правові дискусії: матеріали науково-практичної інтернет-конференції. – Львів, 2018 – 20-21 с.
3. Коцко Т. А., Гарбарчук К. В., Політика соціальної відповідальності підприємства та її роль у забезпеченні розвитку персоналу, Сучасні підходи до управління підприємством: зб. наук. праць, елект. наук. вид., URL: http://spu.fmm.kpi.ua
4. Гарбарчук К. В., Соціальна відповідальність працівників як ключовий фактор успішного розвитку сучасних підприємств, Двадцять шості економіко-правові дискусії: матеріали науково-практичної інтернет-конференції. – Львів, 2018 – 17-18 с.Master's thesis on « Management of personnel development of the enterprise on the basis of social responsibility» includes 116 pages, 18 tables, 30 drawings, 4 attachments. The bibliography list consists of 61 items. Taking into account the turbulent environment conditions, the ongoing trends determine the continuous growth of the human factor as a key aspect of the organization's efficiency and competitiveness. Hence, educating socially responsible personnel is a key task for achieving the company's current and long-term goals in order to form a highly skilled and competitive employee. Thus, it is necessary to search for innovative methods for managing the development of personnel, among which corporate social responsibility takes the leading position. The aim of the work is to substantiate the directions of management of the development of personnel of the enterprise on the basis of social responsibility. Achievement of the set goal determines the following tasks: to consider the essence of the concept, directions, principles and modern approaches to the development of personnel of the enterprise; to investigate the essence and role of social responsibility in ensuring the development of personnel of the enterprise; to carry out organizational and economic characteristics of PJSC "MHP"; to evaluate the personnel development management system of PJSC "MHP"; to reveal the policy of social responsibility of PJSC "MHP"; determine the directions of improvement of personnel development management and substantiate their economic expediency at PJSC "MHP". The object of the research is the process of personnel development of the enterprise. The subject of the research is theoretical, scientific-methodical and practical aspects of ensuring the development of personnel of the enterprise on the basis of social responsibility. In the master's thesis were used the following research methods: analysis and synthesis, logical, grouping, formation of tables, graphs, comparisons, forecasting and generalization. Scientific novelty: the main scientific positions, recommendations and conclusions of work are brought to the level of methodical generalizations and applied tools; has further developed the concept of staff development, which enables to reflect the main interrelations between staff development and social responsibility; New directions of personnel development at PJSC "MHP" on the basis of social responsibility are offered. The practical significance of the results obtained is to substantiate the proposals on the process of management development of personnel at PJSC "Myronivsky Hliboproduct" on the basis of social responsibility. It was determined the economic effect from the implementation of the proposed measures. The recommendations and proposals developed in the work were submitted for consideration by the Department of Personnel Management of PJSC "MHP", adopted for use (implementation act No. 08/18 dated March 11, 2018). Publications on the selected topic: 1. Kotsko T. A., Harbarchuk K. V., Suchasni tendentsii u formuvanni polityky rozvytku personalu pidpryiemstva, Suchasni pidkhody do upravlinnia pidpryiemstvom: zb. tez dop. IX Vseukr. naukiu-prakt. konf., 12 kvitnia 2018 r. – Kyiv: KPI im. Ihoria Sikorskoho, 2018 – 106 s.; 2. Harbarchuk K. V., Rozvytok personalu yak osnova efektyvnoi realizatsii sotsialnoi vidpovidalnosti pidpryiemstva, Dvadtsiat piati ekonomiko-pravovi dyskusii: materialy naukovo-praktychnoi internet-konferentsii. – Lviv, 2018 – 20-21 s. 3. Kotsko T. A., Harbarchuk K. V., Polityka sotsialnoi vidpovidalnosti pidpryiemstva ta yii rol u zabezpechenni rozvytku personalu, Suchasni pidkhody do upravlinnia pidpryiemstvom: zb. nauk. prats, elekt. nauk. vyd., URL: http://spu.fmm.kpi.ua 4. Harbarchuk K. V., Sotsialna vidpovidalnist pratsivnykiv yak kliuchovyi faktor uspishnoho rozvytku suchasnykh pidpryiemstv, Dvadtsiat shosti ekonomiko-pravovi dyskusii: materialy naukovo-praktychnoi internet-konferentsii. – Lviv, 2018 – 17-18 s.
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Anderson, Maiya D. "The Leader Development of College Students who Participate in Different Levels of Sport." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1339154225.
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Аграмакова, Н. В., and І. В. Литовченко. "Сутність компенсаційного пакету як інструменту управління соціально відповідальним підприємством." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/50469.
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Основою ринкової економіки повинні стати соціально відповідальні
підприємства (СВП), оскільки кожне з них є носієм певної системи цінностей
і суб'єктом економічної активності. Приймаючи рішення про реалізацію
бізнес-ініціативи, СВП покладає на себе відповідальність за результат своїх
дій перед суспільством, персоналом, споживачами, бізнес-партнерами,
державою. Одним із ефективних інструментів управління СВП є
компенсаційний пакет, який, в найбільшій мірі, сприяє задоволенню інтересів
персоналу, як одного з головних стейкхолдерів СВП.
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Ghizzi, Mariana Reis de Assumpção. "State-of-the-art practices being reported by the PRME champions group: a reference to advance education for sustainable development." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/24658.
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This study aims to offer a diagnostic of the 'state-of-the-art' practices being reported throughout the Sharing Information Process (SIP) by the Champions Group, a group of schools that are signatories of the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME, a United Nations Global Compact initiative), committed to spearheading transformational change toward more socially and environmentally responsible leadership. The study also suggests an analytical model - based on qualitative research and documentary analysis – to define the study sample, investigate data, identify patterns, organise and codify a large amount of information within all reports searched. The analytical model represents a framework in which the result is a collection of practices being reported, functioning as a useful guide and practical reference for higher educational institutions – signatory or otherwise – when promoting or advancing transformational change in their business model. The framework could also be valuable for Graduate Schools – or even Primary Schools to High Schools – considering the urgency of the 2030 Agenda, especially its 4.7 target, referred to as 'An education for sustainable development and global citizenship'.
Este estudo propõe um diagnóstico do que seria o estado da arte das práticas sendo reportadas através dos relatórios SIP (Sharing Information Process) pelo Champions Group, um grupo de escolas de negócios que são signatárias do Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME, uma iniciativa da Organização das Nações Unidas pelo Pacto Globa) e que se comprometeram a liderar mudanças transformacionais em direção a formação de lideranças mais responsáveis quanto a aspectos sociais e ambientais. O estudo também sugere um modelo analítico – baseado em pesquisa qualitativa a análise documental – para os processos de definição da amostra de pesquisa, de investigação de informações, identificação de padrões, organização e codificação de uma vasta quantidade de dados contidos no total de relatórios pesquisados. O modelo analítico representa um framework no qual o resultado corresponde a compilação das práticas reportadas, representando um guia útil e uma referência prática para instituições de ensino superior – signatárias ou não do PRME – quando estiverem promovendo ou avançando em mudanças transformacionais de seu modelo de negócio. O framework pode também ter valor para escolas de Graduação – ou mesmo para escolas de ensino fundamental e ensino médio – considerando a urgência destacada na Agenda 2030, especialmente na meta 4.7, que faz referência a 'uma educação para o desenvolvimento sustentável e para a cidadania global'.
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Erragraguy, Elias. "L'éthique en finance : le cas de l'investissement socialement responsable et de l'investissement islamique." Thesis, Toulon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOUL2001/document.
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L’instabilité et le manque de régulation à l’origine des crises financières devenues cycliques ont été des facteurs propices à un questionnement sur l’éthique de la finance. Cette thèse se propose dans un premier temps de s’interroger sur l’épistémologie de la « science financière » et ses attributs normatifs. Cette interrogation nous a permis de mettre en avant les imbrications logiques qu’il existait entre démarche positiviste et posture normative avant de proposer une cartographie du référentiel éthique qui façonne le discours financier. Ce travail théorique a préfiguré les questionnements empiriques développés, dans le second volet de cette thèse, autour de la confrontation de deux référentiels éthiques et financiers distincts : l’Investissement Socialement Responsable (ISR) et de l’Investissement shariah¬-compatible (ISC). Nos travaux identifient leurs éléments de différenciation et les passerelles possibles entre ces deux déclinaisons de la finance éthique. Dans la première étude, après avoir pris en compte le profil stochastique de 24 indices domestiques, nous mesurons et identifions l’origine de leur performance respective. Les résultats confirment la meilleure résilience des indices ISC durant la crise des subprimes tout en soulignant l’influence du niveau de développement et d’intégration des marchés boursiers. La seconde étude empirique explore le lien de causalité entre les critères ISR et ISC en investiguant la relation entre la performance sociale d’une entreprise (PSE) et sa structure financière. Les résultats obtenus à partir d’un échantillon de 1745 entreprises américaines indiquent que seules les petites entreprises controversées (non-engagées dans une démarche RSE) ont plus systématiquement recours au financement par dette et sont donc plus susceptibles d’être exclues des portefeuilles ISC. La dernière étude mesure, à travers une démarche expérimentale, l’impact financier de la combinaison des critères ISR et ISC. Contrairement aux prédictions suggérées par la théorie du portefeuille, les résultats n'indiquent aucun effet négatif sur la performance dû à l'application conjointe de filtres islamiques et ESGThe instability and lack of regulation that originated the cyclical financial crises were factors conducive to questioning the ethics of finance. This thesis proposes first to question the epistemology of "Financial science" and its normative attributes. This question allows us to highlight the logical interconnections that exist between positivist and normative approaches before proposing a mapping of ethical reference shaping financial decisions. This theoretical work prefigures the empirical questions developed in the second part of the thesis. In this part, we confront two distinct ethical and financial practices: Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and Shariah-Compliant Investment (SCI). Our studies identify their distinguishing features and the possible links between them. In the first study, after taking into account the stochastic profile of 24 domestic indexes we measure and identify the origin of their respective performance. The results confirm the resilience of SCI indexes during the subprimes crisis, while emphasizing the influence of the level of development and integration of stock markets. The second empirical study explores the causal link between the SCI and SRI criteria by investigating the relationship between Companies Social Performance (CSP) and its debt structure. The results obtained from a sample of 1,745 US companies indicate that only small and strictly controversial firms (not engaged in any CSR policy) have a significant higher leverage, therefore suggesting that these firms are more likely to be excluded from SCI portfolios. The last study measures, through an experimental approach, the financial impact of the combination of SRI and SCI criteria. Contrary to predictions suggested by modern portfolio theory, the results indicate no negative effect on performance due to the joint application of Islamic and ESG filters
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Dolotyuk, Inna. "Práticas sustentáveis de gestão de recursos humanos : setor hoteleiro." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16574.
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Mestrado em Ciências EmpresariaisAtualmente, devido às preocupações com o ambiente, as empresas são cada vez mais pressionadas para implementar gestão verde (Prasad, 2013; Sharma e Gupta, 2015), por conseguinte quase todas as indústrias começaram a adotar práticas sustentáveis, por exemplo o setor hoteleiro tem a preocupação com a redução de consumo de energia e água e redução de resíduos (Bohdanowicz et al, 2011; Rahman et al, 2012; Kim et al, 2019). Neste âmbito, as organizações ao adotar práticas sustentáveis podem obter valor económico, ambiental e social das principais atividades organizacionais (Porter e Kramer, 2011). No entanto, as organizações para atingir os objetivos de sustentabilidade precisam de ter apoio dos colaboradores. Assim, as organizações podem recorrer às práticas de gestão de recursos humanos para promover comportamento responsável dos colaboradores (Paillé et al, 2014). Deste modo, este estudo consiste em analisar de que forma é que as práticas verdes e socialmente responsáveis de RH influenciam a identificação organizacional, envolvimento organizacional (work engagement) e a lógica organizacional sobre a sustentabilidade percebida (perceived organizational rationale for sustainability), na medida em que essas variáveis podem influenciar o comportamento dos colaboradores. Assim, também pretende-se analisar em que medida aquelas práticas influenciam o desempenho individual Este estudo permitiu concluir que a formação dos colaboradores influencia a perceção dos mesmos sobre as razões que levam a organização a adotar práticas verdes.
Today, due to environmental concerns, companies are increasingly pressured to implement green management (Prasad, 2013, Sharma and Gupta, 2015), therefore almost all industries have started to adopt sustainable practices, for example the hotel sector has the concern with reducing energy and water consumption and reducing waste (Bohdanowicz et al, 2011; Rahman et al, 2012; Kim et al, 2019). In this context, organizations adopting sustainable practices can obtain economic, environmental and social value from the main organizational activities (Porter and Kramer, 2011). However, organizations to achieve sustainability goals need to have employee support. Thus, organizations can use human resource management practices to promote responsible employee behavior (Paillé et al, 2014). Thus, this study consists of analyzing the impact of green and socially responsible practices of HR on organizational identification, organizational involvement and organizational logic about perceived sustainability, insofar as these variables can influence employee behavior. Thus, it is also intended to analyze to what extent those practices influence individual performance. This study allowed us to conclude that the training of employees influences the employees' perception of the reasons that lead the organization to adopt green practices.
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Queen, Irene T. "Green Bonds and Climate Change: State of the Art or Artful Dodge?" Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1470352085.
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Lee, Jegoo. "Omnes Pro Uno! Investors' Collaboration Networks to Influence Responsible Corporate Management." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2464.
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Thesis advisor: William B. StevensonThesis advisor: Sandra Waddock
The main purpose of this dissertation research is to understand the collaborative interactions among actors engaging in change efforts in the existing institutional arrangements. Specifically, this dissertation research sheds light on the collaboration networks of social investors who desire both their own financial benefits and stakeholder welfare, by filing shareholder resolutions to bring environmental or stakeholder concerns to the attention of corporate managers. My research strategy in this dissertation is to propose and write a theoretical study and two empirical studies. I propose in chapter 2 a conceptual and theoretical framework for inquiring into social investors' collaboration strategies to develop the field of shareholder resolutions on social issues. The key argument is researchers pay attention to focal actors, multiple actors, and the relationships among them to understand the social mechanisms which integrate active shareholders with the field of social resolutions. In order to determine social investors' strategies to initiate and mobilize their filing activities, based on the social movement perspectives and a social network approach, I propose four conceptual dimensions from the social movement perspectives: identity, social relationships, target identification, and issue framing. In two empirical studies, I test my propositions by analyzing 1650 shareholder resolutions filed by 267 social investors from 2002 to 2007. The first study presented in chapter 4 addresses who initiate social resolution filings, by examining determinants of social investors' proactive initiating activities. When religious investors have brokerage positions, their initiating activity of filing social resolutions are very proactive. However, social investors' range of stock ownership does not go along with their brokerage positions. These findings imply that leading social investors need to have brokerage positions when they have faith-based identity, but that they don't need social resources when they have enough financial resources, a wide range of stocks. The second study presented in chapter 5 explains how leading social investors attract to mobilize their potential followers. Interestingly, the reciprocation hypothesis, "give and take of co-filing support," is negatively supported, indicating a division of labor in the field of social resolutions. In addition, lead-filing social investors who successfully attract and mobilize other investors aim at target companies that are well known among other social investors, and frame issues in wide angles in their social resolutions. These empirical studies demonstrate that active social investors developed their collaboration networks dependent upon their faith-based identity, social relations, targets identification and issue framing strategies. In this dissertation, I assert the necessity and importance of studies on the activities of shareholders by demonstrating that some active investors have strategically led the socially responsible investment movement. This dissertation provides counter-evidence to the conventional assumption that corporate managers should ignore stakeholder welfare if they pursue shareholder value. It also demonstrates that the network-based movements can be a good platform for social change agents to develop their own fields. Strategically, as they interact with each other, small and weak actors can build their own field to collectively influence corporate management. In this sense, the network-based movements underscore the way the infrastructure of a field emerges
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management
Discipline: Organization Studies and Corporate Responsibility
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Eckerle, Sabine. "Die Responsible-Care-Initiative der chemischen Industrie aus institutionenökonomischer Sicht." Stuttgart Ibidem-Verl, 2009. http://d-nb.info/999284797/04.
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Eisenschmid, Nicola. "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) im Supply Chain Management (SCM)." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-108243.
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Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (CSR) nimmt für Unternehmen bedingt durch steigenden Druck seitens verschiedener Stakeholder sowie veränderte gesellschaftliche Erwartungshaltungen und politische Rahmenbedingungen eine immer bedeutenderer Rolle im gesamten Wertschöpfungsprozess ein. CSR geht über die Unternehmensgrenzen hinaus und umfasst die mit dem eigenen Unternehmen verbundenen Leistungsersteller. Die Einkaufsfunktion übernimmt mit einem hohen Anteil am Wertschöpfungsprozess die wichtige Aufgabe, Leistungserstellung bei dritten Unternehmen (Lieferanten) einzukaufen. Häufig sind dies Lieferanten in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern mit teilweise stark abweichenden Produktionsbedingungen. Um fehlende Gesetze und nicht zertifizierbare Standards zu kompensieren, sind insbesondere große Unternehmen dazu angehalten, ihre Lieferantenbasis hinsichtlich CSR-Kriterien zu überprüfen und ein regelkonformes Verhalten sicherzustellen. Die vorliegende Dissertation verfolgt die Idee, die Notwendigkeit einer Integration von CSR als Bewertungskriterium in bestehende Prozesse zu untersuchen, um geeignete Lieferanten für eine strategische Beziehung bewerten zu können. Hierfür wird zunächst anhand von Experteninterviews die praxisorientierte Messmethode „CSR-IndexSA“ auf Basis einer Selbstauskunft entwickelt. Eine Überprüfung auf Reliabilität dieser Messmethode erfolgt mittels einer empirischen Erhebung bei einer hohen Anzahl von Zulieferunternehmen. Eine umfangreiche statistische Analyse bestehender Bewertungskriterien und -prozesse mit der erhobenen CSR-Performance dieser Lieferanten zeigt als Ergebnis eine notwendige eigenständige Integration von CSR als Bewertungskriterium mit einer nur geringen Auswirkung auf bestehende Prozesse. Anhand der empirischen Erhebung konnten desweiteren CSR-Risikofaktoren, wie Unternehmensgröße und Region bestätigt werden. Die Erkenntnisse der Untersuchung zeigen zudem, dass jene Lieferanten mehr Wert auf eine strategische Kunden-/ Lieferantenbeziehung legen, die auch eine hohe CSR-Performance aufweisen. Neben der Überprüfung und Sicherstellung von CSR rückt vermehrt die Information, Schulung und Weiterbildung zu CSR insbesondere von SMEs als Aufgabe für große Unternehmen in den MittelpunktBased on increased pressure on the part of different stakeholders, changed expectations on social issues as well as political frameworks, corporate social responsibility (CSR) gains more importance within the whole process of value add. Social responsibility extends the limits of the focal enterprise and includes the whole supply chain. The purchasing function is responsible for the important task (within the value add process) to source goods and services from third parties, the suppliers. Often production partners in emerging countries follow different legal and social standards. In order to compensate missing legal requirements and standardized norms, large MNE need to regularly supervise their supply base and secure CSR by themselves. This doctoral thesis aims to investigate the necessity of the integration of CSR as evaluation criterion in existing processes, with the result to be able to evaluate suitable suppliers for strategic relationships. Therefore based on expert interviews the method „CSR-IndexSA“ is being developed. This CSR-IndexSA allows the suppliers’ evaluation with a self assessment. The method is being proved for its reliability and is being adopted in a large scale empirical study involving numerous suppliers. The broad statistical analysis of existing evaluation criteria and processes with the measured suppliers’ CSR performance shows the need of the integration of CSR as independent criterion within the supplier evaluation process. The effects on existing processes are proven to be minor. Those results point to further relations between the “classical” criteria for evaluation and various CSR dimensions (e.g. environmental management) and give advice for an improved supplier evaluation. Furthermore CSR risk factors such as company size or region can be identified through the empirical survey. Long-term partnerships mean an increasingly important success factor in customer supplier relationships. The survey’s results show also that those suppliers who value a strategic relationship as important also have a high rating regarding CSR performance
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Панухник, Яна Геннадіївна, and I. Panukhnyk. "Модернізація технологій управління підприємством у муніципальній економічній системі." Thesis, Тернопільський національний технічний університет ім. Івана Пулюя, 2015. http://elartu.tntu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/6187.
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Робота виконана на кафедрі економіки та фінансів Тернопільського
національного технічного університету імені Івана Пулюя Міністерства освіти і
науки України. Захист відбудеться «24» грудня 2015 р. об 1100 годині на засіданні
спеціалізованої вченої ради Д 58.052.05 Тернопільського національного технічного
університету імені Івана Пулюя за адресою: 46008, м. Тернопіль,
вул. Білогірська, 50, зала засідань.Дисертація на здобуття наукового ступеня кандидата економічних наук за спеціальністю 08.00.04 – економіка та управління підприємствами (за видами економічної діяльності). – Тернопільський національний технічний університет імені Івана Пулюя, Тернопіль, 2015. У дисертації розглянуто теоретико-концептуальні підходи модернізації технологій управління підприємством у муніципальній економічній системі. Визначено особливості функціонування та розвитку, роль і місце підприємства у муніципальній економічній системі як об’єкта управлінського впливу. Запропоновано авторське бачення необхідності використання технологій управління підприємством у муніципальній економічній системі та концептуальних засад щодо їх модернізації. Здійснено системний аналіз технологій управління підприємствами приладобудування у муніципальній економічній системі на основі оцінки практики їх управління. Акцентовано увагу на проблемах інерційності адміністративного підходу та інституційних бар’єрах модернізації технологій управління підприємствами приладобудування з метою оцінювання ефективності управління досліджуваних підприємств у муніципальній економічній системі. Запропоновано напрями формування модернізації технологій управління підприємством у муніципальній економічній системі. Підкреслено, що стратегічний підхід до управління можна вважати передумовою ідентифікації векторів модернізації технологій управління підприємством у муніципальній економічній системі. Сформовано науково-практичні рекомендації для розгляду соціально відповідальної діяльності як інструмента модернізації технологій управління підприємством у муніципальній економічній системі.
The thesis is submitted for the scientific degree of Candidate of Sciences (Economics), specialty 08.00.04 – Enterprises Economy and Management (by economic activity). – Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University, Ternopil, 2015. The theoretical and conceptual approaches to modernizing the enterprise management technologies in municipal economic system were reviewed in the thesis. The features of functioning and development, the enterprise role and place in municipal economic system as an object of administrative influence were determined. The author's vision of the necessity for applying enterprise management technologies in municipal economic system and conceptual basis for their modernization was proposed. The system analysis of instrument-making enterprises management technologies in municipal economic system based on the evaluation of these enterprises’ management practices is carried out. Attention was focused on the problems of administrative approach inertness and institutional barriers to modernizing the instrument-making enterprise management technologies to assess the effectiveness of studied companies’ management in municipal economic system. The directions for the formation of the modernization mechanism of enterprise management technologies in municipal economic system were offered. The strategic approach to management can be considered as prerequisite for identifying modernization factors of enterprise management technologies in municipal economic system. The scientific and practical recommendations for the consideration of socially responsible activity as a tool for modernization of enterprise management technologies in municipal economy system were formed.
Диссертация на соискание ученой степени кандидата экономических наук по специальности 08.00.04 – экономика и управление предприятиями (по видам экономической деятельности). – Тернопольский национальный технический университет имени Ивана Пулюя, Тернополь, 2015. В диссертационной работе на основе обоснования теоретических основ, определения методических подходов и формирования прикладных рекомендаций предложено новое решение важного научного и практического задания по модернизации технологий управления предприятием в муниципальной экономической системе. Целью исследования является обоснование теоретико-концептуальных основ модернизации технологий управления приборостроительным предприятием в муниципальной экономической системе и разработка на этой основе научных рекомендаций по их практической реализации. Объектом исследования является процесс использования технологий управления приборостроительным предприятием в муниципальной экономической системе. Предметом исследования является механизм модернизации технологий управления приборостроительным предприятием в муниципальной экономической системе. В диссертации рассмотрены теоретико-концептуальные подходы модернизации технологий управления предприятием в муниципальной экономической системе. Определены особенности функционирования и развития, роль и место предприятия в муниципальной экономической системе как объекта управленческого воздействия. Представлено авторское видение необходимости использования технологий управления предприятием в муниципальной экономической системе и концептуальных основ их модернизации. Проведенный в диссертационной работе анализ практики управления выбранных для исследований предприятий медицинского приборостроения в муниципальных экономических системах разных городов Украины в части их обеспеченности финансовыми ресурсами показал, что ситуация характеризуется: ненадлежащей обеспеченностью собственными финансовыми ресурсами (об этом свидетельствуют результаты полученных коэффициентов, которые не соответствуют установленным нормам); преобладанием привлеченного капитала; относительно устойчивым и положительным соотношением собственных и привлеченных ресурсов. Выявленные тенденции связаны с инерционностью административного подхода и институциональными барьерами управления для предприятий приборостроения и модернизации технологий управления ими. С целью оценки эффективности управления исследуемых предприятий приборостроения в муниципальной экономической системе, в диссертационной работе рассмотрены современные технологии управления, внедрение которых позволит предприятию успешно конкурировать на рынке. Модернизация технологий управления предприятием должна касаться конкретных сфер его деятельности и требует определенных подходов, адаптированных к условиям этих сфер. Среди существующих подходов целесообразно выделить: стратегический, синергетический, логистический, административный, виртуальный, ресурсный, технологический. Автором предложены направления формирования модернизации технологий управления предприятием в муниципальной экономической системе. Подчеркнуто, что стратегический подход к управлению можно считать предпосылкой идентификации векторов модернизации технологий управления предприятием в муниципальной экономической системе. Обосновано, что управление предприятием в муниципальной экономической системе должно учитывать угрозы и возможности для его функционирования и развития, чего можно достичь путем использования ситуационного управления. Исходя из полученных данных, автором разработана модель на основе нечеткой логики, выходным параметром которой взято принятие решения об уровне формирования направлений модернизации технологий управления приборостроительных предприятий в муниципальной экономической системе. Сформированы научно-практические рекомендации для рассмотрения социально ответственной деятельности как инструмента модернизации технологий управления предприятием в муниципальной экономической системе.
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Fenclova, Emily Ann. "Flying responsibly? : an analysis of the self-reported corporate social responsibility of European airlines." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/13342.
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The aim of this PhD research project was to critically examine the self-reported socially-responsible activities of European full-service and low-fares airlines. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a concept that has been described using many terms and with varying definitions. Broadly, it is the recognition that businesses should voluntarily mitigate and manage their externalities. CSR has been touted by businesses and governments alike as a preferred alternative to regulation. This research looked at the self-reported CSR approaches of the European airline sector, which has historically been heavily regulated and is currently facing increasing pressures regarding its impacts on CSR- and sustainability-related concerns. Low cost carriers have been under particular scrutiny for their impacts, and therefore, this research compared the CSR approaches of the two dominant airline business models in Europe: low cost and full service models. The sample consisted of 21 full service and 13 low cost carriers with headquarters in Europe. Mixed qualitative methods were applied to 566 secondary documents (websites, press releases, annual reports, and standalone CSR reports) and 15 elite interviews with airline managers. A range of established CSR indicators were assessed, including: definitions, reported practices, motivations and justifications for CSR activities, and CSR management and monitoring. Much of what the airlines reported as their CSR was at odds with academic and governmental definitions; as a whole, they placed considerable emphasis on environmental issues and adhering to regulations. This study also found that the CSR practices were closely correlated with business practices and key sector issues – an understanding of CSR that is most compatible with stakeholder theory-based conceptualisations. Business models on their own were found to be an overly-simplistic explanation for the wide variances of practice that were found in the sample. Instead, four ‘profiles of responsibility’ were identified, which better captured the differences in practices.
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Martinuzzi, Robert-Andre, Vincent Blok, Alexander Brem, Bernd Stahl, and Norma Schönherr. "Responsible Research and Innovation in Industry-Challenges, Insights and Perspectives." MDPI AG, 2018. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6119/1/sustainability%2D10%2D00702.pdf.
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The responsibility of industry towards society and the environment is a much discussed topic, both in academia and in business. Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has recently emerged as a new concept with the potential to advance this discourse in light of two major challenges industry is facing today. The first relates to the accelerating race to innovate in order to stay competitive in a rapidly changing world. The second concerns the need to maintain public trust in industry through innovations that generate social value in addition to economic returns. This Special Issue provides empirical and conceptual contributions that explore corporate motivations to adopt RRI, the state of implementation of concrete RRI practices, the role of stakeholders in responsible innovation processes, as well as drivers and barriers to the further diffusion of RRI in industry. Overall, these contributions highlight the relevance of RRI for firms of different sizes and sectors. They also provide insights and suggestions for managers, policymakers and researchers wishing to engage with responsibility in innovation. This editorial summarizes the most pertinent conclusions across the individual articles published in this Special Issue and concludes by outlining some fruitful avenues for future research in this space.
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Pruschak, Gernot Verfasser], Christian [Akademischer Betreuer] [Hopp, and Frank T. [Akademischer Betreuer] Piller. "Ethical and responsible behavior in applied empirical research: four essays on academic practices in the social sciences / Gernot Pruschak ; Christian Hopp, Frank Thomas Piller." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1231911751/34.
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FERRI, LAURA MARIA. "Gestione Responsabile degli Acquisti: le determinanti dell'integrazione della Responsabilità Sociale nelle relazioni di fornitura." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/481.
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La tesi vuole esaminare i fattori determinanti l’implementazione di sistemi di gestione responsabile degli approvvigionamenti. In particolare, si è voluto verificare la presenza di pressioni – interne ed esterne – che spingono l’impresa a integrare la responsabilità sociale nella gestione delle relazioni di fornitura globali.
La prima parte presenta gli sviluppi che hanno portato alla definizione del concetto di Responsible Procurement Management. In particolare, vengono discusse le nuove sfide nel contesto globale che hanno accresciuto l’attenzione nei confronti delle implicazioni sociali e ambientali connesse all’estensione delle catene di fornitura. Successivamente, si propongono le definizioni di Responsible Procurement Management e gli approcci strategici che si stanno affermando nella letteratura. Infine, si presentano le ipotesi di ricerca. La seconda parte si concentra sul progetto di ricerca realizzato durante il periodo di Dottorato. Dopo aver presentato la metodologia utilizzata, la discussione di focalizza sui risultati dell’analisi statistica ed evidenzia se questi confermano o negano le ipotesi di ricerca.The thesis is aimed at examining the determinants of the Responsible Procurement Management. In particular, attention has been focused on understanding what factors – internal and external the organization – affect the decision to integrate corporate responsibility into the management of global supply relationships. The first part presents the developments that led to the concept of Responsible Procurement Management. In particular it discusses the new challenges in the global context that have increased the attention towards the social and environmental implications of extended supply chains. Then, it proposes the definitions of Responsible Procurement Management in literature and the emerging strategic approaches. Finally, the research hypotheses are introduced. The second part presents the research project aimed at verifying the hypotheses previously discussed. It begins by describing the methodology, then it moves to the discussion of findings in order to understand whether gathered data do support or deny hypothesized determinants.
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Larsson, Robert. "Integrating sustainability with business strategy – the Swedish chemical industry." Thesis, Stockholm University, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7826.
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This thesis aims to investigate perceptions of sustainability in relation to business
strategy within the Swedish chemical industry. To this end, a survey was
distributed with the assistance of industry organization Plast- och Kemiföretagen
to companies that are part of the Responsible Care® program.
A second purpose of the study is to explore critical factors when implementing an
integration of sustainability with business strategy. To do this as well as dig deeper
into a couple of questions raised in the survey, a qualitative study was carried out
at Akzo Nobel business unit Pulp and Paper Chemicals (operating under the brand
name of Eka Chemicals). Semi-structured interviews were performed with seven
company representatives from different organizational levels, to explore critical
factors identified in a literary study.
From the survey, it could be concluded that the studied companies considered
sustainability as an important issue today and with growing importance for the
future. It was also observed that sustainability is currently not an issue at the core
of business strategy, as 35% of respondent companies did not think that top
management handled issues related to sustainability. Enhanced reputation and
cost reduction/resource efficiency were seen as the primary creators of business
value when addressing sustainability. Additional top motivating forces to consider
sustainability were legislative demands and company core values.
From the literary study a model of critical factors when implementing changes in
strategy was developed. Four different aspects identified were explored in the
semi-structured interviews at Eka Chemicals: change leadership, shared vision,
sense of urgency and aligning goals. In that specific setting, the critical factors of
having a shared vision and aligning individual, organizational unit and corporate
goals were found to exist to a high degree, while the critical factor of change
leadership was only partially existent, and a sense of urgency not existent.
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Svensson, Julia, and Wiksell Linn Danielsson. "The effect of social relationships on employee retention in a remote working context : A qualitative case study on which Talent Management practices an organisation use to retain talented employees in a remote context." Thesis, Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53463.
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Talent Management (TM) is a well-used practice to identify, attract, develop, and retain the most valuable resource in an organisation: talented employees. The concept TM emerged when organisations started to detect increased demands and technological changes in the business market. Additionally, due to the retirement of baby boomers, organisations have started to experience a shortage of talents creating “The War for Talent” (Chambers et al., 1998). However, ethical aspects create a demand for an inclusive approach of TM which includes all employees, as opposed to only focusing on a selected few. Responsible Talent Management (RTM) considers talent to be obtained and developed within the organisation. Employees who experience job satisfaction and commitment are more likely to stay in the organisation (Deery, 2008), whereas work-life balance, employee well-being, leadership, and learning have become important factorsfor increasing job satisfaction and commitment as well as employee retention (Radda et al., 2015: Deery, 2008). Especially due to new challenges associated with the working environment and social relationships in this new remote working context. Researchers express the need for further research regarding RTM as well as the inclusive approach. This thesis, therefore, aims to understand how an organisation work with TM practices to retain talented employees in a remote working context. Based on the scientific issue and the purpose, a qualitative case study was conducted. Eight employees within the HR department were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The analysis of the empirical data identified a great need for genuine social relationships. Regardless of which TM retainment practices used, supporting employees with tools and opportunities to build and nurture social relationships may be an instrumental driver to retain talented employees in a remote working context.Talent Management är ett välanvänt begrepp för att identifiera, attrahera, utveckla och behålla den mest värdefulla resursen i en organisation: talangfulla medarbetare. Begreppet TM blev uppmärksammat när organisationerna upptäckte ett ökat krav och teknologiska förändringar på marknaden. På grund av att generationen “babyboomers” har börjat gå i pension har organisationer börjat uppleva en brist på talang, vilket har skapat ”The War for Talent” (Chambers et al., 1998). Dock skapar de etiska aspekterna ett krav på ett inkluderande synsätt på TM som inkluderar alla anställda och inte bara fokuserar på ett fåtal utvalda. Begreppet Responsible Talent Management (RTM) anser att talang kan erhållas och utvecklas inom organisationen. Anställda som upplever jobbnöjdhet och engagemang är mer benägna att stanna kvar i organisationen (Deery, 2008), medan balans mellan arbetsliv och privatliv, anställdas välmående, ledarskap och lärande har blivit viktiga faktorer för att öka jobbnöjdhet och engagemang samt att behålla de anställda (Radda et al., 2015: Deery, 2008). Framförallt med tanke på de nya utmaningarna gällande arbetsmiljön och de sociala relationerna i den nya kontexten av distansarbete. Forskare uttrycker ett behov av vidare forskning gällande RTM och det inkluderande synsättet. Syftet med uppsatsen är att förstå hur en organisation arbetar med aktiviteter inom TM för att behålla talangfulla medarbetare i en kontext av distansarbete. Baserat på forskningsproblemet och syftet har en kvalitativ fallstudie utförts. Åtta anställda tillhörande HR-avdelningen har intervjuats genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. I analysen av empirin identifierades ett stort behov av genuina sociala relationer. Oavsett vilka aktiviteter inom TM som organisationen använder för att behålla talanger, så uppfattas organisationens stöd i termer av olika verktyg och möjligheter för att skapa och vårda sociala relationer, vara en stark drivkraft för att behålla talangfull kompetens i en kontext av distansarbete.
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Pisano, Marina. "L'apport du réseau dans la construction du capital social pour un management responsable : une étude empirique dans le secteur du bâtiment en Région Occitanie." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30008/document.
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Cette thèse de doctorat en Sciences de Gestion s’effectue en contrat CIFRE au sein d’un Bureau d’Etudes Techniques, B.E.T., situé en région Languedoc-Roussillon, depuis septembre 2013. Le terrain de recherche concerne le secteur du bâtiment. La question de recherche s’oriente vers le secteur du bâtiment et porte plus particulièrement sur l’impact des réseaux informels sur la coordination et la gestion des coûts de transaction dans les activités liées à l’aménagement et à la constructionThis PhD in Management Science is done by contract CIFRE within a Technical Study Bureau, BET, located in Languedoc-Roussillon area since September 2013. The field research concerning the building sector. The research question is directed towards the construction sector and more particularly to the impact of informal networks on the coordination and management of transaction costs in activities related to the development and construction
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Goodman, Jennifer Coralie. "Social shareholder engagement: How shareholders bring social, environmental and ethical concerns to the heart of management." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/295841.
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Els accionistes sempre han estat fonamentals per entendre un negoci. I ho continuen essent avui. Tanmateix, suposar que una empresa s’ha de dirigir només per satisfer les demandes dels accionistes, i que aquests accionistes estan preocupats només per maximitzar els seus beneficis econòmics, resulta problemàtic, davant de les nombroses exigències que tant aquests accionistes com d’altres stakeholders plantegen a les empreses.
En una època en què temes com el canvi climàtic i la distància creixent entre els rics i els pobres s’estan convertint en preocupacions urgents per a la societat, el paper de les empreses, les seves finalitats i les seves pràctiques s’estan qüestionant tant en l’àmbit públic, com en el privat i en l’acadèmic. La inversió responsable, els diversos tipus d’inversors, les iniciatives multistakeholder, les comunitats, les campanyes d’activisme i una varietat creixent de stakeholders plantegen múltiples i diverses demandes a les empreses, que van més enllà dels interessos econòmics.
Aquesta tesi adopta la perspectiva del repte que suposa per a les empreses que es qüestionin els supòsits en què es fonamenta la seva naturalesa. Hi ha accionistes que s’impliquen en la gestió corporativa de les problemàtiques socials, mediambientals i ètiques, com els drets humans o la degradació de l’entorn. En aquest estudi, s’analitza empíricament i conceptualment aquesta “implicació de l’accionista” (shareholder engagement), que és un fenomen cada vegada més rellevant en la pràctica corporativa i en l’activitat investigadora. Oferim una nova perspectiva de la implicació de l’accionista, que identifica la seva naturalesa política i ètica. D’aquesta manera, participem i contribuïm a la literatura sobre govern corporatiu, inversió responsable, activisme social i ètica empresarial, i obrim noves vies per a la recerca futura.Los accionistas siempre han sido fundamentales para entender un negocio. Y lo siguen siendo hoy. Sin embargo, suponer que una empresa ha de ser dirigida únicamente para satisfacer las demandas de los accionistas, y que dichos accionistas están preocupados únicamente por maximizar sus beneficios económicos, resulta problemático, a la luz de las numerosas exigencias que plantean a las empresas tanto los accionistas como otros stakeholders. En un tiempo en que determinados temas, como el cambio climático y la distancia creciente entre ricos y pobres, se están convirtiendo en preocupaciones acuciantes para la sociedad, el papel de las empresas, sus fines y sus prácticas están siendo cuestionados en los ámbitos público, privado y académico. La inversión responsable, los diversos tipos de inversores, las iniciativas multistakeholder, las comunidades, las campañas de activismo y la gran variedad de stakeholders han planteado múltiples y diversas demandas a las empresas, que van más allá de los intereses económicos. Esta tesis adopta la perspectiva del reto que supone para las empresas el cuestionamiento de las asunciones en que se fundamenta su naturaleza. Hay accionistas que se implican en la gestión corporativa de las preocupaciones sociales, medioambientales y éticas, como los derechos humanos o la degradación del entorno. En este estudio, se analiza empíricamente y conceptualmente esta “implicación del accionista” (shareholder engagement), pues es un fenómeno cada vez más relevante en la práctica corporativa y en la actividad investigadora. Ofrecemos una nueva perspectiva de la implicación del accionista, que identifica su naturaleza política y ética. De este modo, participamos y contribuimos a la literatura sobre gobierno corporativo, inversión responsable, activismo social y ética empresarial, y abrimos nuevas vías para la investigación futura.
Shareholders have always been fundamental to an understanding of the corporation. The same is true today. However, the assumptions that the firm should be run to meet only the demands of shareholders, and that those shareholders are concerned only about the maximization of financial returns, are problematic in light of the multitude of demands placed on corporations by both shareholders and other stakeholders. At a time when issues such as climate change and the widening gap between rich and poor have become pressing societal concerns, the role of business, its purposes and its practices have been challenged in the public, private, and academic spheres. Responsible investment, diverse investor types, multi-stakeholder initiatives, communities, activist campaigns, and a variety of other stakeholders have resulted in multiple and diverse demands on the company which go well beyond financial interests. This thesis takes the perspective of one such challenge to the fundamental assumptions about the nature of the firm: shareholders who actively engage with corporate management on issues of social, environmental, and ethical concern such as human rights or environmental degradation. This ‘social shareholder engagement’, an increasingly relevant phenomenon in practice and research, is explored here both empirically and conceptually. I provide a new perspective on social shareholder engagement, which identifies the political and ethical nature of these actions. In this way I engage with and contribute to the corporate governance, responsible investment, social activism and business ethics literatures and open a number of future avenues for research.
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Eisenschmid, Nicola. "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) im Supply Chain Management (SCM): Die Bedeutung von unternehmerischer gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung als Lieferantenbewertungskriterium zum Aufbau strategischer Kunden-/ Lieferantenbeziehungen." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsverlag Chemnitz, 2012. https://monarch.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A19864.
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Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (CSR) nimmt für Unternehmen bedingt durch steigenden Druck seitens verschiedener Stakeholder sowie veränderte gesellschaftliche Erwartungshaltungen und politische Rahmenbedingungen eine immer bedeutenderer Rolle im gesamten Wertschöpfungsprozess ein. CSR geht über die Unternehmensgrenzen hinaus und umfasst die mit dem eigenen Unternehmen verbundenen Leistungsersteller. Die Einkaufsfunktion übernimmt mit einem hohen Anteil am Wertschöpfungsprozess die wichtige Aufgabe, Leistungserstellung bei dritten Unternehmen (Lieferanten) einzukaufen. Häufig sind dies Lieferanten in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern mit teilweise stark abweichenden Produktionsbedingungen. Um fehlende Gesetze und nicht zertifizierbare Standards zu kompensieren, sind insbesondere große Unternehmen dazu angehalten, ihre Lieferantenbasis hinsichtlich CSR-Kriterien zu überprüfen und ein regelkonformes Verhalten sicherzustellen.
Die vorliegende Dissertation verfolgt die Idee, die Notwendigkeit einer Integration von CSR als Bewertungskriterium in bestehende Prozesse zu untersuchen, um geeignete Lieferanten für eine strategische Beziehung bewerten zu können. Hierfür wird zunächst anhand von Experteninterviews die praxisorientierte Messmethode „CSR-IndexSA“ auf Basis einer Selbstauskunft entwickelt. Eine Überprüfung auf Reliabilität dieser Messmethode erfolgt mittels einer empirischen Erhebung bei einer hohen Anzahl von Zulieferunternehmen. Eine umfangreiche statistische Analyse bestehender Bewertungskriterien und -prozesse mit der erhobenen CSR-Performance dieser Lieferanten zeigt als Ergebnis eine notwendige eigenständige Integration von CSR als Bewertungskriterium mit einer nur geringen Auswirkung auf bestehende Prozesse. Anhand der empirischen Erhebung konnten desweiteren CSR-Risikofaktoren, wie Unternehmensgröße und Region bestätigt werden.
Die Erkenntnisse der Untersuchung zeigen zudem, dass jene Lieferanten mehr Wert auf eine strategische Kunden-/ Lieferantenbeziehung legen, die auch eine hohe CSR-Performance aufweisen.
Neben der Überprüfung und Sicherstellung von CSR rückt vermehrt die Information, Schulung und Weiterbildung zu CSR insbesondere von SMEs als Aufgabe für große Unternehmen in den Mittelpunkt.Based on increased pressure on the part of different stakeholders, changed expectations on social issues as well as political frameworks, corporate social responsibility (CSR) gains more importance within the whole process of value add. Social responsibility extends the limits of the focal enterprise and includes the whole supply chain. The purchasing function is responsible for the important task (within the value add process) to source goods and services from third parties, the suppliers. Often production partners in emerging countries follow different legal and social standards. In order to compensate missing legal requirements and standardized norms, large MNE need to regularly supervise their supply base and secure CSR by themselves. This doctoral thesis aims to investigate the necessity of the integration of CSR as evaluation criterion in existing processes, with the result to be able to evaluate suitable suppliers for strategic relationships. Therefore based on expert interviews the method „CSR-IndexSA“ is being developed. This CSR-IndexSA allows the suppliers’ evaluation with a self assessment. The method is being proved for its reliability and is being adopted in a large scale empirical study involving numerous suppliers. The broad statistical analysis of existing evaluation criteria and processes with the measured suppliers’ CSR performance shows the need of the integration of CSR as independent criterion within the supplier evaluation process. The effects on existing processes are proven to be minor. Those results point to further relations between the “classical” criteria for evaluation and various CSR dimensions (e.g. environmental management) and give advice for an improved supplier evaluation. Furthermore CSR risk factors such as company size or region can be identified through the empirical survey. Long-term partnerships mean an increasingly important success factor in customer supplier relationships. The survey’s results show also that those suppliers who value a strategic relationship as important also have a high rating regarding CSR performance.
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Apéstegui, Paola. "Social Sustainability in Marine Governance: The Case of Barra del Colorado, Costa Rica." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-454283.
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Marine issues develop in complex social contexts, usually involving a large number of sectors, actors, and users. Achieving sustainable marine governance requires a continued and context-specific structure of interdisciplinary knowledge, inter-sectorial interaction as well as inter-institutional coordination that generates daunting challenges to government, stakeholders and civil society. In this sense, it is imperative for marine governance structures to pay close attention to social sustainability factors, such as recognition of socio-cultural diversity, representation in decision-making and distribution of ‘goods’ and ‘bads’, which have commonly been overlooked in environmental governance in general and marine governance in particular. Costa Rica’s territorial sea is an important source of income for a myriad of communities on the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. During 2019 and 2020, the Responsible Fishing Marine Area and Marine Management Area of Barra del Colorado were created under the expectation of serving the social and ecological needs of the community. Taking this into consideration, this study aims to examine how social sustainability was handled in the formation process of the two resource management areas, which involved participation of institutional and civil society actors from 2010 until 2019. This study first analyses the concept of marine governance and its relationship to social justice. The concept of social sustainability is explained and I then develop a social sustainability conceptual framework. Secondly, the methodology and methods are described. The choice of the empirical case is described in the next section and I next give a brief overview of Barra del Colorado’s social and economic characteristics and background. Further, an analysis of the process to consolidate the Responsible Fishing Marine Area and the Marine Management Area of Barra del Colorado through the social sustainability framework is conducted. Last, the results of the analysis are discussed and the main findings are presented. Through this analysis, the process of consolidation was assessed against the normative social sustainability theory, concluding that the process was found lacking regarding its social sustainability due to a series of government-related issues, that affected the representation, recognition and distribution of the process.
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Burger, Martinus Charl. "The social character of organizational change : strategizing as emergent practice." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/5016.
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Increasingly, researchers on strategy are turning away from the highly abstracted and de-humanized components that seem to typify the macro approach to strategy. This movement is at least partially brought about by a philosophical recognition that the emergent and unpredictable nature of organizational life is fast exposing the constraints of an approach to strategy that is based on the values of rationality, predictability and control. In this thesis I argue that organizational change in general and the act of strategizing in particular can be thought of as a social, transformative and emergent process as opposed to the overly orderly, rational, formative and/or humanistic views on strategy presented by systemically oriented theorists. I draw on the theory of complex responsive processes of relating as espoused by Stacey, Griffin and Shaw (2000) and specifically on Stacey’s (2003, 2007) substantial contribution to the field of strategic management. By utilizing a reflexive research methodology I describe the arduous social and emergent process of transformation in my practice and identity (observable in subtle changes in disposition, language and assumptions) as I begin to act into the understanding of strategizing as an ongoing, incomplete, social process. In doing this, I am suggesting that the narrated accounts of our shifts in practice due to us knowing differently are important contributions in the process of transforming our theories on and beliefs around strategy. These accounts should not be seen as premature attempts at methodological frameworks, but rather as explorative participation in the emergent transformation of a radical, social approach to strategizing. I engage critically with the notion of strategy-as-practice and suggest a review of the fundamentally rational and formative assumptions still prevalent in the work of researchers like Johnson, Melin and Whittington (2003) and Samra- Fredericks (2003). Whilst acknowledging the role of culturally mediated dispositions in the ongoing transformation of organizations advocated by Chia and Holt (2006) and Chia and MacKay (2007), I argue for the paradoxical and therefore simultaneous occurrence of habitual and mindful actions by people strategizing as opposed to the authors’ suggestion of a predominantly mindless experience of organizational change. Finally, I turn to Stacey’s (2007) question as to why people continue to make long-term forecasts if their usefulness is so obviously limited. Whilst understanding his frustration, I argue that there is value nevertheless in engaging in strategy making albeit not for the rationalist reasons usually stated. In my view the real value of strategising is to be found in two areas: first in the social activity that goes into creating these documents, and second: the documents not only serve as markers in an ongoing process of strategising; they also give us a way of ‘going on’ and taking the next step.
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Barbosa, Aurinézio Calheira. "Responsabilidade social corporativa do pólo industrial de Camaçari: a influência do conselho comunitário consultivo." Universidade Federal da Bahia, Departamento de Engenharia Quimica, 2003. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/21703.
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COFIC, Conselho Comunitário Consultivo
Esta dissertação tem a finalidade de estudar a influência da relação indústria-comunidade, implantada no ano de 1994, pelo Comitê de Fomento Industrial de Camaçari (COFIC), no Pólo Industrial de Camaçari-BA (Pólo), com a criação do Conselho Comunitário Consultivo (CCC), que é uma experiência de Responsabilidade Social Coorporativa entre o Pólo e as comunidades vizinhas, através do Programa Atuação Responsável. De forma pioneira no país, a indústria química brasileira investiu na construção de um relacionamento entre as indústrias do Pólo e a população residente no seu entorno, através da constituição de um CCC formado por representantes dessa população. Neste trabalho, foram avaliados os documentos relacionados à formação e ao funcionamento do CCC, além das observações in loco, feitas por este pesquisador, como agente ativo no processo. Inicialmente, fez-se uma revisão de literatura sobre o assunto e seus pontos de referências. Esta pesquisa exploratória serviu de fundamentação teórica aos processos de análise crítica sobre o funcionamento do CCC no período de 1994 a 2001 e seus respectivos rebatimentos sobre a gestão de SSMA no Pólo. Desenvolveu-se uma análise crítica quanto às influências desse Conselho sobre a gestão de Segurança Industrial, Meio Ambiente e Saúde Ocupacional (SSMA) do COFIC no Pólo. O Conselho Comunitário Consultivo tem oportunizado a ambas as partes (indústria/comunidade) o exercício da parceria e da convivência. O trabalho conclui que, em função dos resultados obtidos através da aproximação do Pólo com suas comunidades vizinhas, o Conselho Comunitário Consultivo contribuiu para a melhoria da gestão, pelo COFIC, da Segurança Industrial, Meio Ambiente e Saúde Ocupacional no Pólo. Destaca-se a criação dos Núcleos de Defesa Comunitária para o Plano de Emergências da Comunidade e a melhoria na gestão da prevenção de acidentes com contratadas no Pólo.
This dissertation aims to study how the creation of the Community Advisory Council (CAC), in 1994, by the Industrial Committee of Camaçari (COFIC) affected the relation between the industry and the local community. This initiative can be seen as an experience of Corporate Social Responsibility towards nearby communities, under the Responsible Care Program, a pioneer initiative in Brazil, undertook by the chemical industry. The Community Advisory Council has been a window of opportunity for both industry and community, to exercise partnership and co-operation. A critical analysis of the outcome of the work of this Community Council towards improving Health, Safety and Environment management was developed. At first, a literature review was undertaken and a theoretical framework was drawn which was essential for the critical documental analysis that followed. The documentation about the CAC operation between 1994 and 2001 and its influence on the COFIC decision making process was analysed and the study was complemented by in loco direct observation. It has been possible to conclude that a close relation between Camaçari Industrial Complex and nearby communities resulted from the CAC implementation and this has been contributing to the improvement of COFIC Health, Safety and Environment management on the complex. Moreover, two aspects that can be emphasised are: a) the establishment of Community Defense Centers related to Communities Emergency Plans and b) the improvement on the prevention of accidents involving contractors in Camaçari Complex.
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Valdés, Gandarillas Susana. "Estrategias de sostenibilidad en marketing de los fabricantes de gran consumo en España." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/458241.
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¿Qué estrategias de sostenibilidad en marketing están llevando a cabo los fabricantes de gran consumo en España y por qué lo hacen? Esta es la pregunta que trata de contestar este trabajo de investigación. Para ello, en primer lugar, se realiza una revisión sistemática de la literatura sobre todo el área de marketing y sostenibilidad con la finalidad de hallar las clasificaciones, estrategias y motivaciones relevantes que puedan existir sobre este tema en la literatura. A continuación, se realiza un trabajo de campo que incluye todas las empresas de gran consumo que operan en España y que forman parte del ranking de Corporate Knights de las 100 mejores empresas en sostenibilidad presentado en Davos entre los años 2010 y 2015. En total se lleva a cabo un análisis cualitativo de 8 casos, que incluye el análisis de los informes de sostenibilidad y páginas web de las diferentes empresas, los artículos académicos y la información recabada en las visitas a los puntos de venta. Todo ello se contrasta, valida y complementa con una posterior entrevista en profundidad a los directores de marketing de dichas empresas.
Las principales aportaciones de este trabajo son: (1) el uso y aplicación de una clasificación de estrategias de sostenibilidad en marketing en el trabajo de campo; (2) el establecimiento de una clasificación de las motivaciones de las compañías para diseñar e implementar dichas estrategias; y (3) la identificación de 13 nuevas motivaciones halladas en el estudio de campo y no contempladas en la literatura académica.
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Umurerwa, Janviere, and Maja Lesjak. "AI IMPLEMENTATION AND USAGE : A qualitative study of managerial challenges in implementation and use of AI solutions from the researchers’ perspective." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-187810.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are developing rapidly and cause radical changes in organizations, companies, society, and individual levels. Managers are facing new challenges that they might not be prepared for. In this work, we seek to explore managerial challenges experienced while implementing and using AI technologies from the researchers’ perspective. Moreover, we explore how appropriate ethical deliberations should be applied when using big data concerning AI and the meaning of understanding or defining it. We describe qualitative research, the triangulation that includes related literature, in-depth interviews with researchers working on related topics from various fields, and a focus group discussion. Our findings show that AI algorithms are not universal, objective, or neutral and therefore researchers believe, it requires managers to have a solid understanding of the complexity of AI technologies and the nature of big data. Those are necessary to develop sufficient purchase capabilities and apply appropriate ethical considerations. Based on our results, we believe researchers are aware that those issues should be handled, but so far have too little attention. Therefore, we suggest further discussion and encourage research in this field.
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Mabasa, Layane Thomas. "A responsive evaluation approach in evaluating the safe schools and the child-friendly schools programmes in the Limpopo province." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80061.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the use of a responsive evaluation approach in evaluating programme implementation: Safe Schools and the Child Friendly Schools Programmes. A case study design was adopted for use in the study. That was done by using Robert Stake’s responsive approach but modified to include: Stakeholder audience identification, consultation and issues exploration; Stakeholder concerns and issues analysis; Identification of evaluative standards and criteria; Designing and implementation of evaluation methodology; Data analysis and validation and Reporting. The study was done in two phases. Phase 1 focused on the Safe Schools Programme involving seven schools in the Capricorn district, Limpopo province. Preliminary results from phase 1 revealed that there was no implementation of the Safe Schools Programme. In phase 2 of the study the focus was on the implementation of Child Friendly Schools Programme. It involved three schools in the Capricorn and Waterberg districts, Limpopo province. Data collection was done by using three methods which are Observation, Interview and Documents. The results indicate that there is no implementation of the safe schools programme but there is implementation of the CFS programme. Although there is no implementation of the SSP, schools have initiated strategies to deal with safety issues. On the implementation of CFS programme, schools differed greatly in their approach. The study also documents the strengths, limitations and lessons learnt from the use of responsive evaluation approach as outlined by Robert Stake. The major contribution of the study is that Responsive Evaluation approach has gone through major changes over a period of time to the extent that its latter position seems to be contradicting some of its earlier positions. Further, evaluators should be patient, flexible and have listening, writing and observation skills when using the approach.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie fokus op die gebruik van ‘n responsiewe evalueringsbenadering in die evaluering van die programimplementering van die Veilige-skole- en die Kindvriendelike skoleprogramme. ‘n Gevallestudie ontwerp, naamlik Robert Stake se responsiewe benadering, is in die studie gebruik. Die benadering is aangepas om die volgende in te sluit: Identifikasie van die belanghebbende gehoor; konsultasie en eksplorasie van aangeleenthede; Analise van belanghebbended bekommernisse en vrae; identifisering van evalueringstandaarde en –kriteria; Ontwerp en implementering van evalueringsmetodologie; Data-analise en –validering, en verslagdoening. Die studie het in twee fases plaasgevind. Fase 1 het gefokus op die Veiligeskoleprogram wat sewe skole in die Capricorndistrik, Limpopo provinsie, insluit. Voorlopige resultate van Fase 1 het gewys dat daar geen implementering van die Veilige- skoleprogram was nie. In Fase 2 van die studie was die fokus op die implementering van ‘n Kindvriendelike Skoleprogram. Dit het drie skole in die Capricorn- en Waterbergdistrikte, Limpopoprovinsie, betrek. Data-insameling is gedoen deur gebruik te maak van drie metodes, te wete: waarneming, onderhoudvoering en dokumentering. Die resultate dui daarop dat daar geen implimentering van die Veilige -skoleprogram is, maar wel implimentering van die Kindvriendelike-skole-program. Alhoewel daar geen geen implimentering van die Veilige-skoleprogram was nie, het skole strategiee inisieer om veiligheidkwessies te hanteer. Wat die implementering van die Kind-vriendelike program betref, verskil skole grootliks in hul benadering. Die studie dokumenteer ook die sterkpunte, beperkings en lesse geleer uit die gebruik van die responsiewe evalueringsbenadering soos uiteengesit deur Robert Stake. Die hoofbydrae van die studie is dat die Responsiewe Evalueringsbenadering groot veranderings oor ‘n tydperk ondergaan het tot die mate dat die mees onlangse standpunte blyk om sommige van die vorige standpunte te weerspreek. Verder behoort evalueerders geduldig en plooibaar te wees, en oor luister, skryf- en waarnemingvaardighede te beskik by die gebruik van die benadering.
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Lundquist, Coey Åsa Margaretha. "Exploring uncomfortable situations in the practice of a Swedish leadership consultant." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17120.
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This research examines the practice of process consultancy in Sweden with a particular emphasis on working in disturbing and uncomfortable situations. The managerial discourses that consultants are working in are dominated by an abstract language with a relentless eye towards imaginative futures in the form of visions, missions, strategies, and goals (Stacey 2011, Mowles 2014). Based on linear casuality thinking that comes from the natural sciences, the assumption is of predictability and control. Therefore, disturbing, uncomfortable, or conflicting situations arising in practice are generally overlooked, avoided, or suppressed as they - per definition - are neither predictable nor controllable. Although process consultancy in many respects gradually has changed from delivery/expertise of ready made concepts into more of conversational facilitation, speaking partnerships, inquiry and coaching, disturbing and uncomfortable moments are still generally being avoided or overlooked. This research is a narrative-based inquiry that has served as a basis for engagement in literature, reflections, reflexive inquiries, and conversations with fellow researchers, members of faculty, and other practitioners. Out of this iterative and intese process, the arguments have emerged and developed. In describing a multitude of uncomfortable and disturbing situations from my practice, and while paying close attention to them in local context, a view of these situations as problematic and avoidable has moved into a wider and deeper understanding regarding what might be taking place among us. Interpreting directives, policies, and strategies - what to do and how to do it - in order to find the most functional ways forward is imperative in organisations. Hence, corrigibility and definite inquiries into worlds of practice and relations are necessities. As ideologies and intentions among people differ, problems and disturbances are inevitably encountered in processes of particularising (making concrete in specific contexts) generalised plans and strategies, which, in turn, creates different and new generalisations (Stacey 2011, p. 358). Utilising process consultancy in order to 'deal' with the above situation may, however, paradoxically enhance anxiety and disturbancies even more. In drawing attention to disturbances as central, 'normal', and generative (normforming), I have come to think of the actual process in process consultancy as having felt dissolving qualities. As 'states' of body/mind are temporary, shifting, and changing when we are being influenced and influence others and ourselves (constrain and enable) at the same time as we speak, a sense of solution often occurs in the process. Rather than solving or resolving issues - a more traditional approach, intentionally aiming at fixing something - acts of conversations and reflexive inquiries are not aiming anywhere in particular. They are explorative and mind-moving and make us re-identify or re-form our sense of self. Hence, in the process of 'loosening up or breaking apart' identity, a sense of solution (I refer to as dissolution) is felt to emerge. This process can be disturbing per se, and the newly gained thinking - also of a temporary kind - can be felt as 'better' or 'worse' or neither, as movements and outcomes are unpredictable. In process consultancy, the understanding of people as an elusive science - changeable, fluid, and plural (messy and needy rather than tidy and rational) - is helpful in order to understand 'stuckness' and enable movement by taking experience seriously rather than engaging in excessive quantification or being futuristic and idealising.
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Mukubvu, Luke. "Reflecting on a period of change in a governmental development agency : understanding management as the patterning of interaction and politics." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/8968.
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Management was once described as the art of getting things done through the efforts of oneself and other people (Follett, 1941) and is functionalised through acts of planning, organising, leading and controlling tasks and people for pre-defined objectives. These four cardinal pillars of management are translated into various models, tools and techniques of best practice of how to manage. While acknowledging that the substance of the current management models, tools and techniques have for years broadly contributed to how organisations are run, my research sheds more light on the shortcomings underlying some of the assumptions and ways of thinking behind these models and tools. My research findings based on my experience in working for the Department for International Development suggests that management practice and organisational change occur in the context of human power relationships in which people constrain and enable each other on the basis of human attributes such as identities, attitudes, values, perceptions, emotions, fears, expectations, motives and interests. I argue that these human attributes, human power relations and the totality of human emotions arise in the social, and understanding the ways in which these attributes shape local interaction and daily human relating is critical in making sense of the reality of organisational change and management. I suggest that management practice occurs in the context of everyday politics of human relating. It is that type of politics that takes place within families, groups of people, organisations, communities, and indeed throughout all units of society around the distribution of power, wealth, resources, thoughts and ideas. This way of thinking has enormous implications for the way we conceptualise management theory and practice. I am suggesting that managers do not solely determine, nor do employees freely choose their identities, attitudes, values, perceptions, emotions, fears, expectations and motives. These human dimensions arise from social relationships and personal experiences. As such, it is simply not for a manager to decide or force other employees on which of these human attributes to influence their behaviour. I am arguing that the social nature of management practice and role of human agents is inherently complex and cannot, in the scientific sense, be adequately reduced to discrete, systematic, complete and predictive models, tools and techniques without losing some meaning of what we do in management.
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Flinn, Kevin Paul. "Making sense of leadership development : reflections on my role as a leader of leadership development interventions." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/13884.
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This thesis examines my experience of leading leadership development. During the last three years I have been researching my role as Head of Leadership and Organisational Development at the University of Hertfordshire (UH), with a view to making sense of and rethinking leadership and approaches to leadership development more generally. This thesis considers how my own thinking and practice has changed and developed as a consequence of paying attention to and reflecting on personal experience, whilst at the same time locating my sense-making in the broader academic scholarship. Narrative accounts of the significant incidents and interactions that I have participated in during the past three years have been shared verbally with the participants on the programmes that I lead, and explored more extensively in written form with colleagues in the learning community on the Doctorate in Management (DMan) programme at UH, as a means of intensifying my sense-making and its generalisability to a community of engaged enquirers. My research was prompted by disillusionment with the dominant discourse on leadership and leadership development based as it is on theories, frameworks, tools and techniques that privilege a form of autonomous, instrumental rationality and deceptive certainty that did not reflect the social, non-linear, uncertain day-to-day realities faced by me and the managers with whom I worked. In this thesis, I draw on my experiences as a manager, leader of leadership development, and a student of leadership development, to problematise the mainstream managerialist conceptions of leadership and organisation that are now part of the organisational habitus (Bourdieu, 1977) in the UK. The rise and naturalisation of managerialist ideology across the private, public, and charitable sectors in the UK makes it an inordinately difficult perspective to contest without risking some form of exclusion. I contend that my experience of attempting to encourage radical doubt and enquiry rather than the mindless acceptance and application of conventional wisdom contributes to knowledge in the field of leadership and organisational development by providing insight into and an alternative way of thinking about and practising leadership and leadership development. In contesting dominant conceptions, I proffer a more reality congruent alternative to mainstream thought. I draw on the perspective of complex responsive processes of relating (Stacey et al, 2000, Griffin, 2002, Shaw, 2002), critical management studies (Alvesson and Willmott, 1996), social constructionism (Berger et al, 1966), and other thinkers critical of managerialist conceptions of leadership and leadership education (Khurana, 2007) to explore leadership as a social, relational activity where leaders are co-participants, albeit highly influential ones, in the ongoing patterning of relationships that constitute organisation. However, I argue that it is insufficient for management educationalists to snipe critically at managerialism from the sidelines, problematising one perspective and simply replacing it with another (Ford et al, 2007), leaving their participants ill-equipped to navigate the potentially destructive political landscape of day-to-day organisational life. While the dominant discourse on leadership and organisation is flawed, to avoid exclusion managers must still become fluent in the language and practice of managerialism, the ideology that has come to dominate the vast majority of organisational communities in which they find themselves. In this thesis, I argue that it is crucial for managers and leaders of leadership development to engage with a polyphony of perspectives, and develop the reflective and reflexive capacity to continuously explore and answer for themselves the questions who am I, and what am I doing, who are we, and what are we doing?
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Thorup, Pernille. "Strategy-making in a senior leadership team in the public sector in Denmark : taking experience seriously as co-creation, conflict and paradox." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17226.
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Much current literature on management and strategy still describes strategy work as a linear, top-down, management-based, rational, logical, structured and planned change activity with clear and predictable goals. It is described as an activity in which individual managers are addressing key questions and implementing an important, management-based plan. By using the right tools and techniques, skilled managers can transform plans into reality through good leadership and systematic rollout. This way of thinking about leadership is based on an understanding of leaders as rather powerful, knowing, heroic individuals who can stand outside of their organization to plan an ideal future, and who are equipped to make employees follow their instructions in order to reach desired goals. In this thesis I research into my experiences of what is happening in an organization, taking seriously the experience of developing a new strategy. It is an organization working in the public sector in Denmark which is right now trying to find a strategy and its way through a series of 'wicked problems' not easily handled. Through the use of autobiographical narrative-based inquiry and a focus on everyday local interactions between people working together, I research into what is 'really' going on in strategy work. Drawing on the theory of complex responsive processes of relating and reflexivity, I describe and analyse the interactions in our leadership team's efforts to change the organization's strategy. In doing so themes of power, power games and power differentials, politicking and some of the paradoxes in management - such as inclusion/exclusion, local interaction and global patterning, unpredictable predictability, and conflict and cooperation - are investigated. The complex responsive process perspective views organizations as patterns of interaction and conversations between people working together. By analogy from complex adaptive systems models, sociology, psychology and philosophy, it argues that generalizable population-wide patterns emerge in unpredictable ways through exactly these local complex interaction and interplays of people's intentions, thoughts and actions. This leads me to propose generalizable new contributions to knowledge about strategy work. Examining my own experience, I problematize the 'heroic', individualistic, view of what leaders do when working with strategy, preferring to see strategy as a co-created activity that emerges in complex and paradoxical interactions between people in the organization, in the leadership team, in daily cooperation with employees, and through the interface with customers. The understanding of co-creation here being that together we co-create our social life and our social life is co-creating us, our selves, our personalities at the same time. This inseparable paradox of the individual and the group, of the one and the many is investigated. Finally, I suggest that strategy work is inseparable from the everyday messy conflictual power games of organizational life, and that leaders - through actively engaging in ongoing conversations and co-creating meaning - participate in developing new understandings of identity and culture. In talking with one another about what it is we are doing, in influencing and being influenced, and reflecting on this, we are already changing what is going on; this itself is strategy work. The narratives show that to work with strategy effectively, we need to negotiate our intentions in convincing ways through forming strong power alliances. Taking experience seriously also demonstrates a close connection between power, ethics and action, and that it is impossible to decide the 'good' thing to do before acting. Developing reflexivity, both as an individual and in collaborative work, is a prerequisite for working in an ethical way, aware of our mutual interdependence. Finally, the thesis describes some of the consequences of taking experience seriously as a strategy. It has changed the way our staff understand what they are doing, and is beginning to change the kind of assignments we take on, and how we deal with them. One spin-off has been producing two books (with more to come). We also have new and more reflexive contacts in business and knowledge-creating environments, such as universities and business schools. The thesis shows a number of results from working with strategy in this way. This indicates that the act of taking your experience seriously in itself implies a kind of transforming causality, and hereby a strategy of change.
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Andres-Hoang, Anh-Tho. "Restructuration des entreprises publiques au Vietnam." Thesis, Paris Est, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PESC0028.
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La privatisation des entreprises publiques au Vietnam figure en tête des priorités de l’agenda politique du gouvernement vietnamien depuis l’annonce de la politique Doi-moi en 1987. Cette étude examine le processus de la restructuration des entreprises d’État pendant la période entre 1991 et 2012. La recherche se base sur les théories de la gestion de l’entreprise et du développement, en particulier sur la responsabilité sociale de l’État considéré comme un acteur économique. L’étude examine aussi le cadre macroéconomique vietnamien dans lequel la privatisation s’opère. L’objectif est de déterminer les facteurs conditionnels de réussite de ce processus, en prenant comme variable le degré d’intervention de l’État dans l’économie dans le contexte autant asiatique que mondial du changementRestructuring state-owned enterprises in view of their privatization lies at the top of the political agenda of the Vietnamese Government since the launch of the Doi-Moi policy in 1987. The purpose of this study is to examine the macro-environment in which the privatization process of Vietnamese state-owned enterprises takes place. The period of study is between 1991 and 2012. The theoretical framework is based on corporate governance and development theories and the corporate social responsibility of the State, as an economic actor and a majority shareholder, of the country’s public companies which are being privatised. The aim of the study is to determine success factors of the privatization process in Vietnam, with the role of the State in the economy, taken as variable, and examined in the context of change, both at the Asian as well as the global context
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Didlick-Davis, Celeste Renee'. "The LEGACY Project: A Case Study of Civic Capacity Building and Transformative Educational Leadership in a Community-based Academic Enrichment Program." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1460994613.
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Oduro-Kwateng, George. "The evaluation of environmental reporting by publicly listed South African banks." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003860.
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Recently, bankers have come to realise that banking operations, especially corporate lending, affect and are affected by the natural environment and that consequently, the banks might have an important role to play in helping to raise environmental standards. Although the environment presents significant risks to banks, in particular environmental credit risk, it also perhaps presents profitable opportunities. Stricter environmental regulations have forced companies to invest in environmentally friendly technologies and pollution control measures and in tum generated lending opportunities for bankers. This research examines the corporate practices of three of the four dominant banks in South Africa with respect to the environment, focusing on issues of climate change and environmental risk management by way of reporting and disclosure to all stakeholders. The emphasis on environmental reporting by South African banks has been reinforced by the latest release of the King III Report on Corporate Governance in South Africa. Global governance requires that the triple-bottom line should be applied in all corporate undertakings due to globalisation and trade liberalisation; however, the banking sector has responded poorly to the clarion call. The false view that the banks have no significant relationship with environmental degradation is being disproved. Environmental management is a huge and massive reconstruction of what has gone wrong with nature by human influence. The South African banks have had to face with the challenging tasks of reporting on the direct and mostly the indirect impacts of their environmental activities. Based on the three sampled banks which incidentally had greater percentages of the market capitalizations, the banks have fairly performed in environmental reporting. For example, Standard Bank (SA) Ltd has just signed the Equator Principles in 2007 implying corporate lending was done in 2007 without any respect to environmental impact assessments by corporate borrowers. Consequently, environmental reporting was not done to facilitate informed decision-making by stakeholders mostly shareholders and the communities where borrowers tun businesses. The objective of this research study is to investigate the extent and quantity of/voluntary environmental disclosures in the annual and sustainability reports of the banks listed on Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The periods examined were those subsequent to the release of the Exposure Draft Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) issued in 1999. Using content analysis to focus on the environmental aspects, the research study compared three annual reports and three sustainability reports of 2007 year for the three sampled banks in order to evaluate reporting practices in the period surrounding this intervention. The results suggest a trend to triple bottom-line reporting and the extent and quantity of environmental information, albeit in specific categories.
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Chamodot, Mathilde. "Pour un habitat écoresponsable de qualité et financièrement accessible en Saône-et-Loire." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00967898.
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Ce travail de recherche doctorale interroge l'accessibilité sociale et économique au logement. Il est centré sur une recherche prospective de nouvelles formes et de nouveaux modes de production d'habitat écoresponsable qui privilégient un développement local. La question de l'habitat est centrale dans une société où l'accès de tous à un logement de qualité devient de plus en plus difficile et où le secteur de la construction doit évoluer pour réduire son empreinte écologique. À l'instar de la France, la Saône-et-Loire est confrontée à des enjeux sociaux, économiques, culturels et environnementaux complexes et en évolution, auxquels elle doit s'adapter pour garantir un développement durable sur son territoire. Dans le domaine de l'habitat, ceci oblige à explorer de nouvelles solutions en termes de formes et de modes de production. Dans un premier temps, une analyse des enjeux, potentiels et freins du territoire a été menée, basée sur des enquêtes de terrain croisées avec des références extérieures. Au regard de cette phase exploratoire s'est fondée une réflexion prospective pour comprendre et éclairer les possibles, faire émerger des pistes stratégiques, urbanistiques, architecturales ou constructives. Cette recherche a saisi l'opportunité d'une demande de réflexion de la part d'élus du département. Elle vise à constituer une aide à la décision pour l'orientation des politiques territoriales locales avec un regard d'architecte sur les nouvelles pensées du logement accessible. Elle contribue également à mettre en place une démarche pour mieux se saisir de la question de l'habitat et du développement d'un territoire, qui pourrait être applicable à d'autres situations.
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Vernizeau, Diane. "Vers des pêcheries mondiales durables : contribution de l'Union européenne au concept de pêche responsable." Phd thesis, Université de Bretagne occidentale - Brest, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00990583.
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L'éveil de la société internationale aux problèmes environnementaux, en particulier ceux touchant les océans et les zones côtières, a permis de développer des principes et notions nécessaires à la protection du milieu marin et de ses ressources. Le concept de pêche responsable vise à atteindre une gestion durable des pêches. Il nécessite la mise en place de mesures de plus en plus contraignantes pour l'activité de pêche afin de limiter son impact sur les ressources biologiques marines et les écosystèmes marins. Dans un contexte global de raréfaction des ressources, la difficulté à trouver un consensus mondial autour des questions les plus urgentes suscite le doute quant à la capacité des organismes internationaux à mettre en place des mesures contraignantes et effectives dans les zones au-delà des juridictions nationales. Il convient donc de s'interroger sur la place que tiennent les acteurs publics dans la gestion durable des ressources halieutiques. L'objet de cette thèse est de vérifier dans quelle mesure les compétences conférées à l'Union européenne en matière de gestion des pêches lui permettent de contribuer à l'application du concept de pêche responsable pour une gestion durable des pêcheries mondiales.
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吳亭儀. "Does Socially Responsible Firm Has Greater Pay-Performance Sensitivity on Director/Top Management?" Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54v7dx.
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Based on the data of 1,484 nonfinancial listed-companies on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) and Gre-Tai Securities Market (GTSM) over the period from 2005 to 2015, this paper examines the linkage between firm’s engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility and the compensation on director/top management that is measured by pay-for-performance sensitivity. In recent years, the firm has paid more and more attention on Corporate Social Responsibility. Existing studied has mentioned that the relationship between the social responsibility and operational performance, but how social responsibility affects corporate governance such as the greater importance of stakeholder interests, thereby affecting the director/top management, the study of the rationality of compensation is relatively lacking. As a result of the literature that the company appears to be weaker pay-for-performance sensitivity is considered to be a form of agency problems, indicate the company may appear poor governance situation. Generally, the better company's social responsibility on behalf of corporate governance is also better, the pay-for-performance sensitivity will be greater. For this reason, this thesis suggests that the linkage between compensation and performance of corporate managers and directors will be likely to be affected by corporate social responsibility. Empirical result shows that the company's investment in social responsibility activities is more, the higher the linkage between the top managers and directors, the higher the rationality of the compensation.