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Research tidbits: Sustainability tools

A selection of interesting articles we found recently looking at some sustainability tools. The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard: A systematic review of architectures The increasing strategic importance of environmental, social and ethical issues as well as related performance measures has spurred interest in corporate sustainability performance measurement and management systems. This paper focuses on the balanced scorecard (BSC), a performance measurement and management system aiming at balancing financial and non-financial as well as short and long-term measures. [...]

Doryanthus2932020-08-25T14:09:37+10:00September 13th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|

Research tidbits: Perspectives on business education

A selection of interesting articles we found recently looking at some worrying perspectives on business education. Role of business schools in putting shareholders first and down playing CSR Smith and Rönnegard examine the shareholder primacy norm (SPN) as a widely acknowledged impediment to corporate social responsibility (CSR). It explores the role of business schools in promoting the SPN but also potentially as an avenue for change by addressing misconceptions about shareholder primacy and the purpose [...]

Doryanthus2932020-08-25T14:09:39+10:00September 6th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|

Research tidbits: Understanding social entrepreneurs

A selection of interesting articles we found recently looking at understanding social entrepreneurs. Who are social entrepreneurs and what drives them? This paper questions the taken-for-granted moral portrayal depicted in the extant literature and popular media of the devoted social entrepreneurial hero with a priori good ethical and moral credentials. Sophie Bacq, Chantal Hartog & Brigitte Hoogendoorn confront this somewhat idealistic and biased portrayal with insights from unique large-scale data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2009 [...]

Doryanthus2932020-08-25T14:09:40+10:00August 30th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|

Research tidbits: What’s behind corruption?

A selection of interesting articles we found recently looking at what may lie behind corruptive practices. CEO power and CEO hubris: a prelude to financial misreporting? The purpose of this paper is to explore how the tension between a firm’s CEO’s power features and externally observable hubris attributes may determine the likelihood of financial misreporting. The analyses are based on a sample of 16 Canadian firms for which there were formal accusations of financial reporting fraud [...]

Doryanthus2932020-08-25T14:09:43+10:00August 23rd, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|

Research tidbits: Does virtue matter?

A selection of interesting articles we found recently considering whether virtue in management matters. Humility in management Although virtues have gained a firm presence in the theory and practice of corporate management, humility is not ranked as one the chief virtues in the business world. In spite of this, it is an important virtue, contributing to the manager’s moral and professional quality and the development of the company’s human team. This paper explains the basic [...]

Doryanthus2932020-08-25T14:09:45+10:00August 16th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|

Research tidbits: Executive rewards

A selection of interesting articles we found recently looking at executive rewards. Is executive compensation a matter of relativity? What, if anything, is wrong with high executive compensation? Is the common lay reaction of indignation and moral outrage justified? In this paper, Pierre-Yves Néron’s main goal is to articulate in a more systematic and philosophical manner the egalitarian responses to these questions. In order to do so, he suggests that we take some insights from [...]

Doryanthus2932020-08-25T14:09:46+10:00August 12th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|

Research tidbits: Governance & performance

A selection of interesting articles we found recently looking at governance and performance. Whistleblowing, governance and regulation before the GFC at HBOS Following the financial crisis of 2008, the Treasury Committee of the UK House of Commons undertook an inquiry into the lessons that might be learned from the banking crisis. Paul Moore, head of group regulatory risk at Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) during 2002–2005, provided evidence of his experience of questioning HBOS policies [...]

Doryanthus2932020-08-25T14:09:47+10:00August 3rd, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|

Research tidbits: Influences on being ethical

A selection of interesting articles we found recently looking at influences on being ethical. Influence of biological sex and gender roles on ethicality Earlier evidence predominantly supports that women are more ethical than men. With the replication of such a hypothesis for testing, this study further examined whether feminine gender roles are a better predictor of ethical attitudes, ethical behaviours, and corporate responsibility values than the biological sex. Four hundred ten management students from two [...]

Doryanthus2932020-08-25T14:09:48+10:00July 26th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|

Research tidbits: Influencers on sustainable behaviour

A selection of interesting articles we found recently looking at influencers on sustainable behaviour. What drives/prevents green and non-green consumers? This study aims to analyse what drives and prevents the purchasing of eco-friendly products across different consumer groups and develops a conceptual model embracing the positive altruistic (care for the environmental consequences of purchasing), positive ego-centric (green self-identity and moral obligation), and negative ego-centric (perceived personal inconvenience of purchasing eco-friendly products) antecedents of eco-friendly product purchase [...]

Doryanthus2932020-08-25T14:09:50+10:00July 19th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|

Research tidbits: Corporate fraud

A selection of interesting articles we found recently about corporate fraud. Good apples, bad apples among Chinese companies traded in the US Committing financial fraud is a serious breach of business ethics. However, there are few large scale studies of financial fraud, which involve ethical considerations. In this study, we investigate the pervasive financial scandals, which by the end of 2012 involved more than a third of the US-listed Chinese companies. Based on a sample [...]

Doryanthus2932020-08-25T14:09:51+10:00July 12th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|

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