Current Issue : April - June Volume : 2013 Issue Number : 2 Articles : 6 Articles
Undertake in a vision of social ethics, implies that the company must behave like a responsible\r\ncitizen. For this propose, the company is now responsible for negative effects of its activities. That\r\nmean, the company must actively contribute to minimizing the risks by engaging the environmental\r\nprojects. While these investments are a threat to performance for some companies, others consider\r\nthem a competitive factor and a source of value creation.\r\nThrough this study, the authors will demonstrate, through a case study, that socially responsible\r\ninvesting can be, contrary to what most entrepreneurs think, a lever of value creation for the\r\ncompany. Thus, the first part will discuss the concepts of socially responsible investments and the\r\nrelated objectives. The second part will present the calculations related to the environmental\r\ninvestments and determine the added value of environmental protection while discussing the\r\nresults emerging from the case study of the Company of Phosphate of Gafsa....
Markus�s study of IT politics has been influential for the IT implementation literature since the\r\n1980s. However, mistakes of the top-down implementation approach could still be easily found\r\nin many organizations. Derived from Markus�s notion of interaction theory and Drucker�s work\r\non knowledge workers, this paper illustrates a LMS (learning management systems)\r\nimplementation case that evolves from such traditional top-down approach. Based on a\r\nchronological analysis, the case study narrates how IT politics was shaped in a context where\r\nmost stakeholders were highly skillful knowledge workers whose academic autonomy was\r\nlargely overlooked. Reflective discussion suggests how the implementation process might have\r\nbeen better managed. Evidently, even decades after Markus�s and Drucker�s influential work,\r\nhistory still repeated itself and IT politics continued to provide lessons for contemporary IT\r\nmanagers and researchers. Future strategy and implementation approach for campus IT\r\nprojects and LMS implementation in particular are recommended....
It is now known that the future of mobile market is in the Smart Phones arena. Rapidly changing technology has made things so agile that it’s difficult for market players to keep pace with one another. Though the market has been very volatile from market share point of view and still continues to be so, potential for handset makers is way more than attractive. This working paper aims to shed light on the scenario of the Mobile Phone Market in India over the past few years and dares to predict future trends using comprehensive data from industry resources....
Sustainable development is a great challenge for societies: in times facing a global recession,\r\nfinancial crisis, climate change, and energy crisis it is increasingly important to follow a long-term\r\nstrategy for further development to reach sustainability. Corporate social responsibility is a concept\r\nwhereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and\r\nin their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis. A strategic approach to CSR is\r\nincreasingly important to the competitiveness of enterprises. It can bring benefits in terms of risk\r\nmanagement, cost savings, access to capital, customer relationships, human resource management,\r\nand innovation capacity. In this contribution the activities of the European Union on sustainability\r\nand corporate social responsibility were analyzed. The results revealed that by renewing efforts to\r\npromote CSR, the Commission aims to create conditions favourable to sustainable growth,\r\nresponsible business behaviour and durable employment generation in the medium and long term.\r\nWith it�s strategy on CSR the European Commission emphasized the need for the establishment of\r\nsector-based platforms for enterprises and stakeholders to make commitments and jointly monitor\r\nprogress, the improvement and tracking of levels of trust in businesses, the creation of guidelines\r\nfor the development of future self- and co-regulation initiatives and the improvement of company\r\ndisclosure of social and environmental information....
This paper investigates the determinants of continuity and stability of corporate philanthropy donation. By taking\r\nChinese listed companies� donations and two earthquakes as the sample, we find that media attention, product\r\ntype, firm size, and past donation size have active effects in surveying the companies to perform the continuous\r\nsocial responsibility. Sustained and steady charitable giving depends on external pressure and internal motivation.\r\nThe findings indicate that profitability, cash resource availability, and leverage will not affect the likelihood of a\r\nfirms charitable giving in response to nature disaster for those who have a history of giving to disaster relief....
Persistence in innovation is very important for national and firm growth. This paper\r\ncontributes to the study of innovation persistence at firm level, focusing on Greece. Empirical\r\nresearch uses patent and survey data for this purpose. In this context, innovation persistence is\r\nexamined for a sample of 300 Greek firms. Innovation activities are measured through related\r\npatents and persistence is determined by the number of patents that each firm has developed\r\nduring the period 1988-2010. The analysis focuses on the main firm features behind innovation\r\npersistence. Results show that innovation is persistent, as nearly half of firms patent more than\r\nonce and for subsequent years during the whole period of analysis. The phenomenon of\r\ninnovation persistence is more obvious among a total number of 30 firms, the so-called ââ?¬Å?heavy\r\npersistent innovatorsââ?¬Â. Results show that these firms are involved in different economic\r\nactivities at 2-digit level of analysis, have a small size based on their total number of employees,\r\nare characterized by different export shares, develop relatively many technologies based on the\r\ntechnological content of their patents and these new technologies are not usually related to\r\ntheir main production line. However, the analysis also confirms that there are inter-sectoral\r\ndifferences, implying that firm and technology-specific factors are important. The examination\r\nof firm-level innovation persistence could have clear implications for both innovation policy\r\nand the understanding of long-term industry dynamics. Especially now that Greece has started\r\ndiscussing restructuring its economy and re-planning its innovation policy, this paper could\r\ncontribute to this discussion....
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