Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Profitability in South Africa: An Industry‐Level Analysis
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility and profit on assets in South Africa using a panel dataset comprising 79 industries observed annually between 2017 and 2024. The study uses an industry‐level dataset which, unlike firm‐level inquiries, purges firm‐level noise and acknowledges the empirical regularity ...
Brian Tavonga Mazorodze
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Parental Beliefs in Relation to Sexual Minority Young Adults' Critical Consciousness, Mental Health, and Substance Use. [PDF]
Frantz KE, Herbolsheimer C, Romm KF.
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ABSTRACT This study examines the influence of consumers' perceptions of clothing retailers' corporate social responsibility (CSR) on word‐of‐mouth (WOM) and purchase intent in the South African emerging market context. Additionally, a gender comparison was conducted to explore potential differences in the relationship between consumers' CSR perceptions,
Gert D. Muller +2 more
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Children and Young Adults Factor Merit Into Their Judgments of Gender-Based Science Resource Inequalities. [PDF]
Forbes MB, Sims RN, Killen M.
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ABSTRACT Within corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG), there is a gap. This paper aims to fill that gap by building on a previous empirical study. It introduces the Land Governance Materiality Framework (LGMF), which redefines land governance as a critical governance skill that impacts ESG performance ...
Ifedayo Grace Malachi, Reza Eslamipoor
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The global burden of migraine and tension-type headache, 1990-2021: a multi-model Bayesian meta-regression with decomposition of age-period-cohort effects, health inequalities, and frontier analysis. [PDF]
Zhang J +12 more
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ABSTRACT Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Sustainability (CS) are historically distinct constructs that have converged to the point of conceptual confusion. This paper operates within the CSR tradition, arguing that authentic CS is structurally impossible without the ethical foundation CSR provides.
Massimo Franchi
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The biomechanical consequences of the internode biomass inequality in Phyllostachys culms. [PDF]
Liu X +5 more
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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol +1 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in online fresh food delivery use and associations with the neighborhood food environment. [PDF]
Liu B +5 more
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