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Human Rights and a Corporation's Duty to Combat Corruption
(2013-10)
Increasingly, there is awareness that corruption and human rights are intimately connected. However, the debates and reform proposals on improving corporations’ social performance in these two areas are often treated as ...
Management Communication: History, Distinctiveness, and Core Content
(2013-04)
Management communication is the study of managers’ stewardship of writing and speaking to get work done with and through people. This paper overviews the field of management communication, its history, distinctiveness from ...
The Real Costs of Corporate Credit Ratings
(2013-11)
Credit rating agencies emphasize the importance of specific financial ratio thresholds in their rating process. Firms on the favorable side of these thresholds are more likely to receive higher ratings than similar firms ...
Being Entrepreneurial in Your Storytelling: An Institutional Tale
(2013-11)
Stories help us make sense of the world around us and our role in it, including defining ‘success’. Stories reflect society and culture at large, but are also very context-specific; they involve particular individuals and ...
Class Action Litigation after Dukes: In Search of a Remedy for Gender Discrimination
(2013-11)
In this Article we argue for substantial reforms to our system of combating workplace gender discrimination in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes. To help counter discrimination victims’ ...
The Role of Networks, Mentors and the Law in Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Leadership for Women with Children
(2013-12)
Having dependents is an important family status variable in the larger scheme of social differentiators that account for sex differences in careerrelated outcomes. In this study, we are interested in whether men or women ...
Zone Overlap and Collaboration in Academic Biomedicine: A Functional Proximity Approach to Socio-Spatial Network Analysis
(2013-01)
Spatial layouts can have significant influences on the formation and outcomes of social relationships. Physical proximity is thus essential to understanding the elemental building blocks of social networks, dyads. Situating ...
Curtailing Intermittent Generation in Electrical Systems
(2013-03)
Energy generation from intermittent renewable sources introduces additional variability into electrical systems, resulting in a higher cost of balancing against the increased variabilities. Ways to balance demand and supply ...
Corporate Social Responsibility Does Not Avert the Tragedy of the Commons -- Case Study: Coca-Cola India
(2013-10)
'Tragedy of the commons' is a powerful concept to analyze a variety of problems related to environmental sustainability. The commons problem can be solved if individuals behave altruistically. In the business context, this ...
Reverse Innovation for the New Mobility
(2013-07)
The confluence of increasing urbanization with climate change, and the associated need to decarbonize the economy, is driving urgency for the global adoption and diffusion of sustainable scalable solutions. IT-enabled, ...