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Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance in Europe: The Moderating Effects of Industry, Culture, and Governance

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance for European firms, and the moderating roles of industry and country‐specific factors in this relationship. Studying a sample of 2340 companies across 18 countries, we find Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) scores to ...
Veda Fatmy, Venla Haavisto, Janne Äijö
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural relativism in the Poisonwood Bible [PDF]

, 2008
In her novel The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver explores this same ethnocentric missionary zeal when critiquing the ways in which Western countries relate to “foreign” countries.
Wind, Laura
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Epistemological Implications of a System—Theoretical Understanding for Sustainability Models

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global efforts to create a sustainable society will not be sufficiently successful under the current geopolitical and socio‐economic trends. For this reason, recent sustainability research has increasingly focused on systemic coherence, the subject of cognition, and psychological and ...
Stefan Stumm
wiley   +1 more source

THE CRISIS OF THE REASON IN THE XX CENTURY AND THE DISCOURSES OF LEGITIMATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS: OVERCOMING THE DISPUTE BETWEEN UNIVERSALISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND THE AFFIRMATION OF A COSMOPOLITAN PROJECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Revista Direitos Culturais, 2012
Philosophy, during the history of the western civilization, was supplanted by the techno-science relatively to the explanations of the world and by the Christianity relatively to the sense of life, under the point of view of the masses.
José Renato Gaziero Cella, Paola Bianchi Wojciechowski   +1 more
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In memoriam. La obra de Claude Lévi–Strauss (1908–2009). Unidad humana y diferencia cultural [PDF]

, 2010
Uno de los temas fundamentales de la obra del antropólogo francés Claude Lévi–Strauss, recientemente fallecido, es el de la relación entre unidad humana y diferencia cultural. De diversas maneras, tanto en sus trabajos teóricos como en sus intervenciones
Pazos, Álvaro
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

STUDI KOMPARATIF EUTHANASIA DI BELANDA DAN AMERIKA SERIKAT MENURUT PASAL 6 AYAT (1) INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS (ICCPR) DALAM PERSPEKTIF CULTURAL RELATIVISM [PDF]

, 2014
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan legalitas penerapan euthanasia dalam hukum nasional di Belanda dan Amerika Serikat yang menurut Pasal 6 ayat (1) International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights (ICCPR) hak hidup harus dilindungi oleh ...
HANDAYANI,, ANISA PUTRI
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
wiley   +1 more source

The Existence of Cultural Relativism and Its Approach on Different Function of Human Capabilities: A Case from Indonesia

Nurani Hukum, 2022
The universal notion of Human Rights evokes our curiosity on how the same value can be adopted by different time, space, place, and culture. In another side, Capability Approach helps us conceiving how the same human capabilities can be interpreted ...
Surya Oktaviandra
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The relationship between foreign development assistance and human rights peerformance : a case study of the United States of America, Canada, The Netherlands and Indonesia : a research project presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Development Studies at Massey University [PDF]

, 1995
This dissertation examines the degree to which donor countries have attempted to suspend or discontinue foreign aid to the recipients on human rights ground.
Costa Babo Soares, Dionisio da
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