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Socially Responsible Firms [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
In the corporate finance tradition starting with Berle & Means (1923), corporations should generally be run so as to maximize shareholder value. The agency view of corporate social responsibility (CSR) generally considers CSR as a managerial agency problem and a waste of corporate resources, since corporate insiders do good with other people’s ...
FERRELL, Allen, Hao LIANG,, RENNEBOOG, Luc   +2 more
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Gaming industry, social responsibility and academia [PDF]

, 2007
This article briefly looks at some of the ways that academics – and more specifically the International Gaming Research Unit (IGRU) – have been helping the gaming industry and related stakeholders in terms of social responsibility.
Griffiths, MD, Parke, A, Parke, J, Wood, RTA   +3 more
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Mechanisms of parasite‐mediated disruption of brain vessels

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Parasites can affect the blood vessels of the brain, often causing serious neurological problems. This review explains how different parasites interact with and disrupt these vessels, what this means for brain health, and why these processes matter. Understanding these mechanisms may help us develop better ways to prevent or treat brain infections in ...
Leonor Loira, Sílvia Arroz‐Madeira, Cláudio A. Franco, Sara Silva Pereira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experiments in social responsibility [PDF]

Nature, 2006
Pursuing drugs for neglected diseases is not a traditional part of the pharmaceutical company portfolio. But Paul Herrling of Novartis finds that it brings welcome changes both within and outside the industry. The Novartis research facility in Singapore, focusing on dengue fever and tuberculosis, reflects a new approach from pharmaceuticals companies ...
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Earnings management and corporate social responsibility [PDF]

, 2007
By drawing on stakeholder-agency theory and the earnings management framework, we hypothesize a positive connection between corporate social responsibility and earnings management. We argue that earnings management damages the interests of stakeholders.
Prior, Diego, Surroca Aguilar, Jorge, Tribo Gine, José Antonio   +2 more
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PARP inhibitors elicit distinct transcriptional programs in homologous recombination competent castration‐resistant prostate cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
PARP inhibitors are used to treat a small subset of prostate cancer patients. These studies reveal that PARP1 activity and expression are different between European American and African American prostate cancer tissue samples. Additionally, different PARP inhibitors cause unique and overlapping transcriptional changes, notably, p53 pathway upregulation.
Moriah L. Cunningham, Jasibel Vasquez‐Gonzalez, Samantha M. Barnada, Salome Tchotorlishvili, Latese Jones, Ryan Maguire, Genevieve Lewis, Kinza Rizwan, Jenny Deng, Salma Koachar, Drithi Patel, Hailey Shankle, Tessa Mulders, Namra Ajmal, Charalambos Solomides, Emad S. Alnemri, Teresa F. Alnemri, Ayesha A. Shafi, Leonard G. Gomella, Wm Kevin Kelly, Steven B. McMahon, Matthew J. Schiewer   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the relation between corporate social responsibility and financial performance

, 2020
Research Summary This study reexamines the relation between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance by benchmarking firms against industry peers in a given year to identify best‐in‐class and worst‐in‐class firms.
Amrou Awaysheh, Randall A. Heron, Tod Perry, Jared I. Wilson   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gauging the impact of community university engagement initiatives in India

ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement, 2017
Today, the world we live inis challenged with the co-existence of ‘prosperity and poverty’. In India, inparticular, although we are witnessing staggering increase in various economicindicators, our Human Development Indicators (HDIs) remain unenviable ...
Wafa Singh
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Investigating the cell of origin and novel molecular targets in Merkel cell carcinoma: a historic misnomer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study indicates that Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) does not originate from Merkel cells, and identifies gene, protein & cellular expression of immune‐linked and neuroendocrine markers in primary and metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) tumor samples, linked to Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) status, with enrichment of B‐cell and other immune cell
Richie Jeremian, Sriraam Sivachandran, Melissa Galati, Brandon Ramchatesingh, Hibo Rijal, Johnny Hanna, Elena Netchiporouk, May Chergui, Margaret Redpath, Samy Abou Setah, Ivan V. Litvinov   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reasserting Gija women's role in mine site reclamation: A perspective from the Argyle Diamond Mine

Journal of Political Ecology
The Argyle diamond mine, in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, ceased production in late 2020 after 37 years of operations and producing 865 million carats of rough diamonds.
Kia Dowell, Sarah Elizabeth Holcombe
doaj   +2 more sources