Current Issue : July-September Volume : 2023 Issue Number : 3 Articles : 5 Articles
The paper constructs an oligopoly competition model to explore the strategic choice of corporate social responsibility and advertising investment, which means to analyze the trade-off theoretically between advertising investment and the weight of social responsibility. The study found that, with the improvement of social responsibility performance, the dominant strategy of enterprises will evolve from advertising competition to production competition caused by social responsibility. Under certain restrictions, corporate social responsibility will promote advertising competition. Research shows that enterprises should pay attention to the benefits brought by advertising competition while paying attention to social responsibility and the government should also take reasonable control measures, otherwise social welfare and economic benefits of enterprises will be inhibited....
The increasing pressure on environmental responsibility from shareholders, government regulators and the public led to the need for companies to pay more attention to the environmental impact of their operations. This study has been carried out to investigate the effect of corporate governance on environmental performance in Zimbabwe. Board size, board independence, gender diversity, managerial ownership and institutional ownership were used to proxy corporate governance while Global Initiative Reporting Index (GRI) was used to proxy environmental performance and firm age was introduced as a control variable. Exposit research design was adopted, data were collected from the annual reports of listed 27 manufacturing companies on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange using census sampling techniques and panel regression analysis was used to analyze the data collected. The findings showed that board size, gender diversity and managerial ownership have a positive and significant effect on environmental performance while board independence and institutional ownership have positive and insignificant effects on environmental performance. It was concluded that corporate governance variables are important considerations in achieving a good environmental performance and recommended that good number of board size and women should be encouraged for objective and gender-balanced decision making as regards environmental issues....
The article contributes to the identification of significant differences between EU countries in overburden resulting from the availability of housing. The EU and its institutions do not have direct competence, and housing policy does not fall under the common policy of the EU. We will focus on selected dimensions: accessibility and affordability of housing, owning, or renting housing in EU countries. We research four housing categories according to tenure: owner with no outstanding mortgage or housing loan, owner with a mortgage or loan tenant paying rent at market price, and tenant paying rent with reduction or free. In this paper, we examine the overburden of housing expenses on households in these four categories. This exploratory research and according to the type of data used is a quantitative research study. We used box plots to visualize the data. Based on the cluster analysis, we can state that EU countries naturally divide into three clusters as per the countries' approach to housing solutions in 2009 and in 2020, too. The Baker Hubert gamma index value is 0.0462, which means that the dendrograms in 2009 and in 2020 are not statistically similar. This proves that not only there are differences between individual countries, but the development of the share of overburden in the four examined categories is different. It would be appropriate to find appropriate instruments to enforce the same or at least a similar approach to housing for inhabitants in all EU countries....
In order to remain competitive in both domestic and international markets, organizations must maintain a state-of-the-art operational system. This starts with a strong foundational structure in regards to decision-making processes, employee behavior management, and effective project management. As leaders work to establish the organization’s cultural, social, technological, economic, political, and practical systems, along with values, goals, vision, and mission, the adoption of assessment tools is crucial. Although there are various types of assessment tools available, each focusing on different aspects of organizational leadership and development, the ones discussed in this paper aim to drive growth, change, and transformation. The ECSTAR case study highlights that organizations that invest time and resources into mastering strategic management skills and following the frameworks outlined in this paper will undergo a transformative process, leading to enhanced staff collaboration and increased organizational productivity. A strong organizational presence stems from a well-implemented framework at all levels, providing guidance, motivation, and setting standards of excellence and professionalism....
The research found that the deep integration of industry-university-research has a great promotion effect on the improvement of enterprise intellectual capital. First of all, the deep integration of industry-university-research can accelerate the innovation of enterprises in the field of scientific research technology, help the transformation of achievements of the country and enterprises in major scientific research projects, thus improving the economic benefits of enterprises and serving social development; Secondly, the deep integration of industry-university-research is also conducive to improving the competitive strength of enterprises and absorbing more think tanks and innovative technologies for enterprises; Thirdly, the deep integration of industry- university-research also conforms to the common development goals and tasks of universities and enterprises under the background of universityenterprise cooperation, and helps to build a high-quality talent training system, and ultimately feeds back the human resources development of enterprises. Taking the Yangtze River Economic Belt as an example, this paper analyzes the impact of deep integration of industry-university-research on enterprise intellectual capital, and puts forward countermeasures to improve enterprise intellectual capital through deep integration of industry-universityresearch....
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