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Corporate Social Responsibility: Institutional Behavior Differences in Extractive Industry
Emmanuel Opoku Marfo,Kwame Oduro Amoako,Henry Asanti Antwi,Benjamin Ghansah,Gausu Mohammed Baba +4 more
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In this paper, a negative relationship between fiscal resources accessibility and CSR investments for mining companies in Ghana, a sub-Saharan African developing economy, was found out by utilizing a well-protected data from the Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC), Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), and Ghana Chamber of mines (GCM).Abstract:
The developed countries’ institutional research undertaken on corporate social responsibilities (CSR) have shown a positive relationship between accessibility of financial related assets and CSR. Contentions that we classified as the Institutional Difference Hypothesis (IDH) drawn from the institutional writing, on the other hand, propose that institutional contrasts amid of developing and the developed economies are prone to result in diverse CSR propositions. Incorporating the rationale of IDH with understanding of knowledge from slack resource theory, we contend that there exists a negative relationship between fiscal resources accessibility and CSR investments for mining companies in Ghana, a sub-Saharan African developing economy. We utilize a well-protected data from the Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC), Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) and Ghana Chamber of mines (GCM) and find that Return on Ordinary Share, Return on Sales, and Net Profit were reliably connected with lower CSR disbursements. We highlight the ramifications of our discoveries for academics’ examination and corporate practitioners.read more
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Creating Shared Value
Michael E. Porter,Mark R. Kramer +1 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Institutional Theory: New Perspectives on Private Governance
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The Causal Effect of Corporate Governance on Corporate Social Responsibility
Hoje Jo,Maretno A. Harjoto +1 more
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