Sökning: "External expectations and pressures"
Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden External expectations and pressures.
1. The role of Corporate Responsibility disclosure – For managing external expectation and pressure
Sammanfattning : Society acknowledges that companies’ operations have an effect on their business environment. As a result, companies are not only responsible for maximization of shareholder value, but also for the impact of their environmental and social policies. LÄS MER
2. Evaluations as Mirrors and Co-constructors : An Empirical Investigation of a Microfinance Rating Agency and its Rating Practices from 1999–2014
Sammanfattning : Microfinance has been hailed as a “magic bullet” for poverty alleviation and women’s empowerment, and many believe that microfinance organizations (MFOs) can help the world’s poor move up the socioeconomic ladder. However, MFOs are also under increasing pressure to demonstrate high levels of organizational efficiency, economies of scale, and strong financials. LÄS MER
3. (Investigating) MNCs' CSR-related behaviour and impacts in institutionally and culturally distant markets : African developing-countries in focus
Sammanfattning : The overall purpose of this thesis is to explore why and how institutional distance and contextual differences influence MNCs’ CSR-related behavior in African developing-countries. In order to achieve the purpose stated above, the thesis seeks to answer the overarching research question: How do institutional distance and contextual differences influence MNCs’ CSR-related behavior in African developing countries? To answer the research question this thesis employed an interpretive methodological approach in order to increase my understanding of the CSR phenomenon in a specific contextual environment characterized by different institutional distance through different theoretical and empirical perspectives (Guba and Lincoln, 1994; Lincoln and Guba, 2000). LÄS MER