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Previous research on corporate social responsibility generally acknowledges that consumers develop more favourable perceptions of responsible firms. Yet few empirical works have focused on the effects of the firm's societal communication and of its characteristics on brand equity. In this paper...
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In asserting that the number of firms reporting small profits is abnormally high, thus suggesting that earnings management has taken place, accounting researchers assume that the distribution of reported earnings should be smooth for unmanaged earnings. This has never in fact been demonstrated....
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We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of bargaining power on the design and the selection of contracts in a hidden-information context. In our benchmark case, each principal is matched with one agent of unknown type. In our second treatment, a principal can select...
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Cet article étudie les impacts de la Responsabilité Sociétale de l'Entreprise (RSE) sur le système de contrôle mis en place par une entreprise du secteur énergétique. Ces impacts sont analysés grâce au cadre théorique des leviers de contrôle proposé par Simons. La RSE a provoqué une...
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We conducted a sensitivity analysis of results in weighted voting experiments by varying the following two features of the protocol by Montero et al. (2008): (a) the way subjects' roles are reassigned in each round (random versus semi-fixed roles) and (b) the number of proposals that subjects...
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This paper aims at understanding whether firms should engage in CSR communications towards consumers, or let independent third parties do so. A generalisable sample of 275 adults participated in an experiment, manipulating third-parties credible information (positive information, negative, or...
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Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women...
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Face à l'échec relatif des dispositifs législatifs en matière d'égalité professionnelle, les pratiques de RSE peuvent apparaitre comme une solution pour réduire les inégalités que les femmes subissent encore quant à leurs conditions d'emploi. Nous nous interrogeons sur ce point en...
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Partant des conditions dans lesquelles s'élabore la " mesure " en matière responsabilité sociale, d'une part, et de l'insertion de la RSE dans la pensée stratégique, d'autre part, l'article montre que l'évaluation relève d'une logique de communication. Communication ne signifiant pas...
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Cet article étudie le comportement des producteurs de biens addictifs qui font face à une demande avec interactions sociales. Plus précisément, il explore comment les producteurs, intervenant sur un marché légal (tabac, alcool, jeux), sont susceptibles de prendre en compte le possible...
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