Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2008. / Adviser: Evan J. Ringquist. Includes bibliographical references.

Inaug.-diss.--Rostock. / "Literatur": p. iii-iv.

A Corporate Social Responsibility Study in Kaohsiung City's Financial Institutions Abstract The heightened competition and reducing profit-margin in the banking industry have forced banks to change for facing the struggle environment. In addition, many deceptive crime and practices happened recently are all related to the banking system, such as cheating ATM events and disclosure customers¡¦ personal information inappropriately. Under the kind of situation, how to restore customers¡¦ trust to banks has become the priority issue in the banking industry now. Therefore, the theme of social responsibility has come back to the table and attract intensive interests from both the academics and industry. This research conducted an empirical study through a qualitative approach. The purpose of this study is trying to explore the framework on the corporate social responsibility for the financial institution. By in-depth interviewing 17 executives in the financial institutions and based on previous researches, this study concluded four categories of corporate social responsibility for financial companies. 1. Economic Responsibility: Good quality products, appeal channel for customers, business sales performance. 2. Legal Responsibility: Support the related laws and legislations for protecting environment. 3. Ethical Responsibility: Well system of employee training, support technology development, community citizenship, and the concept of respecting employees. 4. Discretionary Responsibility: Charity, helping the minority group, improving social problems, and corporate vision. Overall, companies have accepted and taken some actions on both responsibilities, Economic and Legal. In addition, there are two constructs in the category of Ethical responsibility, employee training and respect employee, improved from the level of ¡§acceptance¡¨ to ¡§action¡¨. In addition, the other two constructs in the category of Ethical responsibility, support technology development and community citizenship, have been accepted by the executives but can¡¦t achieve the level of ¡§action¡¨ as some related limited regulations. Finally, the construct of Discretionary responsibility has not been taken any action by these interviewed companies.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify and compare the Swedish elite football clubs CSR work by investigating their economic, environmental and social efforts. Method: The paper has been completed with the help of a document study and two complementary interviews. Theoretical perspective: Corporate Social Performance Theory, Shareholder Value Theory, Stakeholder Theory and the Triple Bottom Line Theory form the theoretical framework. Empirical result & Analyses: All clubs were engaged in some form of social and economic activities that can be considered to be CSR-related. Examples of social activities that the football clubs carry out is to visit the children's hospital, providing homework assistance for children, give lectures in schools, organize spontaneous football in disadvantaged areas, helping young people to get in touch with potential employers, visit prisons, invite refugees to football games and help people with disabilities into working life. Only two clubs (Helsingborgs IF and BK Häcken) are engaged in environmentally friendly activities. Only two clubs (Helsingborgs IF and BK Häcken) engaged in environmentally friendly activities. These activities are to improve waste management at the football stadium and clean sweat to clean drinking water. Conclusions: There are major differences in the extent of CSR work performed by the clubs. Four clubs (AIK, Djurgårdens IF, IFK Göteborg and Halmstads BK) have their own service for CSR managers. In addition to these four, five clubs (IF Elfsborg, Helsingborgs IF, BK Häcken, Malmö FF and GIF Sundsvall) have named CSR projects. These nine clubs can be considered to be in the forefront regarding CSR issues compared to the rest of the clubs.

Thesis--University of Southern California. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 574-583).

Wu, Yanni. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-65). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Research Significance / Chapter 2.1 --- Theoretical significance --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2 --- Empirical significance --- p.11 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Literature Review / Chapter 3.1 --- Background of CSR --- p.12 / Chapter 3.2 --- The conceptual development of CSR --- p.13 / Chapter 3.3 --- Definition of CSR --- p.16 / Chapter 3.4 --- Why or why not corporations make philanthropic contributions? --- p.16 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Economic rewards for doing corporate philanthropy --- p.16 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Public Visibility --- p.17 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Institutional perspective --- p.20 / Chapter 3.5 --- Research on CSR in China --- p.26 / Chapter 3.6. --- Theoretical Framework --- p.31 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Data and Method --- p.33 / Chapter 4.1 --- Data --- p.33 / Chapter 4.2 --- Method --- p.35 / Chapter 4.3 --- Measurement --- p.37 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Dependent Variables --- p.37 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Independent Variables --- p.38 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Control Variables --- p.41 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- Findings and Discussions --- p.44 / Chapter 5.1 --- Significance of variables indicating arguments of economic rewards --- p.45 / Chapter 5.2 --- Significance of variables indicating new institutionalism --- p.47 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Variables indicating the normative influence --- p.47 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Variables indicating the cultural-cognitive influence --- p.48 / Chapter 5.3 --- Significance of variable indicating political incentive --- p.51 / Chapter 5.4 --- Summary --- p.52 / Chapter Chapter 6: --- Conclusion --- p.57 / Reference --- p.60

Corporate executives have a responsibility to stakeholders to justify expenses, including those devoted to corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, and strengthen the organization's financial position. Due to a lack of consistent information, some food and beverage industry managers do not understand the relationship between social and environmental CSR initiatives and financial performance. Grounded in stakeholder and ethical theory, this quantitative correlational study examined the relationship between 2 variables: the independent variable of social and environmental CSR activities, for which the 2016 Best Corporate Citizens index of 'Corporate Responsibility Magazine' served as a proxy, and the dependent variable of financial performance, as measured by reviewing a 24-month return on assets. The significance test appears twice for a bivariate regression analysis: The F test reported as part of the ANOVA table and the t test associated with the independent variable in the coefficients table. The p value is the same as they are the same test. The yield was: F(1, 10) = .246, p = .633 and t(10) = .496, p = .633. The magnitude of the correlation coefficient was .173, which suggested that financial performance had no relationship with social and environmental CSR initiatives. When reviewing the overall financial rank of all 100 companies in the BCC index, a similar trend emerged. The yield was: F(1, 99) = .202, p = .654 and t(99) = -.449, p = .654. The extent of the correlation coefficient was -.045, which suggested that financial performance had no relationship with social and environmental CSR initiatives. This study has an implication for positive social change with management's decisions about social and environmental sustainability initiatives.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Also available in print.

Thesis (MBus) -- AUT University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (viii, 332 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.) in the Archive at the City Campus (T 658.408 BLA)

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Southern California, 2006. / Adviser: Gail Light. Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-64)