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Compulsory voting and tax revenues [PDF]

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Using a panel-model approach, this paper investigates the validity of the relationship between level of tax revenues and type of voting. The data-set covers the period 2000-2010, and includes 135 countries.
Mutascu, Mihai
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Family Involvement and Financial Performance: How Do They Affect the Sustainability Commitment of Family Businesses?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The socio‐emotional wealth (SEW) perspective suggests that the specific priorities of a family business may make it more or less inclined to engage in sustainable practices. This paper examines how family business heterogeneity regarding family ownership, financial performance, and family board members affects the sustainability commitment of ...
Sonia Sánchez‐Andújar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A CRITICAL REAPPRAISAL OF SOME VOTING POWER PARADOXES [PDF]

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Power indices are meant to assess the power that a voting rule confers a priori to each of the decision makers who use it. In order to test and compare them, some authors have proposed "natural" postulates that a measure of a priori voting power "should"
Annick Laruelle, Federico Valenciano
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
wiley   +1 more source

INFORMATION AGGREGATION, COSTLY VOTING AND COMMON VALUES [PDF]

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In a model of majority voting with common values and costly but voluntary participation, we show that in the vicinity of equilibrium, it is always Pareto-improving for more agents, on the average, to vote.
Ghosal, Sayantan, Lockwood, Ben
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Target Firm's ESG Engagement and Post–M&A Performance: The Mediating Role of Acquirer's CSR Strategy

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines whether the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of target firms influences both accounting‐based and market‐based corporate financial performance (CFP) within the merger and acquisition (M&A) context and whether this relationship is mediated by the acquirer's corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy.
Francesco Gangi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Satisfaction approval voting [PDF]

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We propose a new voting system, satisfaction approval voting (SAV), for multiwinner elections, in which voters can approve of as many candidates or as many parties as they like.
Brams, Steven J, Kilgour, D. Marc
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