Corporate Participation Research Articles

Modernization of the transport system in the Asian-Russian sector as the basis for global economic restructuring security

The research in this article allows us to conduct a comparative assessment of the relationships between the intensification of innovative processes of development of transport, which largely determine today the main parameters of economic development efficiency of the respective regional territories and national states as a whole. The subject of the study is transport parameters of the movement of the resource component in space and time on the efficiency and competitiveness of the productive link of the regions and expanding the organization of trade relations of the subjects of the economy. Resources, the level of their territorial dispersion and dispersion with the possibility of placing productive forces and capacities, are largely determinant today in the development of the needs of the production sector and the impact of stock parameters on business efficiency and competitiveness of the economies of national states as a whole. Particular attention is paid to the development of both external interstate and internal national linear transport networks, including rail, road and water transport. [1]
 The relevance of this publication is confirmed by the active development of Russia's transportation corridors, including the "North-South" and "West-East" corridors, which will be of great importance in utilizing Russia's vast resource potential in the joint development of advanced corporate production facilities with national friendly states that possess modern production and human resources capabilities.
 The scientific basis of this study is represented by complex analysis methods of generalization and evaluative expert assessments of the effect. [2]
 The main target parameters of the scientific justification of the article results are:
 
 Confirmation of the possibility of using the practices of advanced enterprises of developed Asian countries, which rely on the influence of freight delivery speed and minimization of commodity stocks in the manufacturing sector, on labor productivity and, as a result, on intensive growth of economic efficiency as a whole.
 Substantiation of the importance of integration processes between Russia and Asian countries through corporate participation in global innovative development of transportation routes, which will stimulate the intensification of the economy by actively developing communication between participating countries in the organization of transportation of raw materials and goods.
 
 The scientific novelty of the study is determined by the justification for the need for comprehensive development of the transport system of Russia and Asian countries, in the current conditions of sanctions pressure and the reorientation of global markets. The hypothesis is that the modernization of transport arteries will be the basis for increasing labor productivity and forming an innovative transport support for the production potential of the country, not only through the supply of hydrocarbon raw materials to the West and Asia but through corporate participation in the development of an efficient transport infrastructure of the country in international business.

Framing Issues: Public Participation in Canadian Wireless Spectrum Consultations

Background: A descriptive statistical analysis was performed on Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s (ISED) spectrum consultations from 2008 to 2021, along with a qualitative case study of the 2019 consultation on the 3500 MHz band. Analysis: The statistical analysis evinces the dominance of corporate participation in spectrum consultations, particularly by large wireless service providers. This article examines the relationship between the complicated technical framing of spectrum management issues and the corresponding lack of public participation. Conclusions and implications: To address the lack of public participation in spectrum management, the article proposes an adaptation of the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel’s recommendation for a public interest committee for ISED’s consultation process.

Do environmental, social, and governance scores improve green innovation? Empirical evidence from Chinese-listed companies.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has become a buzzword in investment circles as ecological damage and climate warming occur. ESG assessment is one of the important institutions of the green financial system, which plays a significant part in boosting corporate green development. We use the number of green patent applications and green patent citations to measure corporate green innovation and analyze the micro-green effects of the ESG score system using the panel fixed effects models, which means that we explore the impact of the ESG scores on corporate green innovation performance, the specific mechanism of this effect, and the asymmetry of this impact under different moderation effects by using Chinese listed A-shares in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2010-2019 as our research sample. We find that ESG positively affects corporate green innovation; the higher the ESG evaluation, the more it improves firms' green innovation performance. The promotion effect is reflected quantitatively and qualitatively and remains valid after several robustness tests. In addition, the contribution of ESG to corporate green innovation is achieved through two main paths improving corporate investment efficiency and government-enterprise relations. Corporate black attributes inhibit the contribution of ESG to green innovation, while green attributes strengthen the contribution of ESG to green innovation performance. Our study demonstrates the importance of corporate participation in environmental, social, and governance practices for corporate green innovation, which is beneficial for achieving win-win environmental, social, and economic results. Furthermore, our research completes the research on the effects of corporate green performance and green finance. It can provide empirical references for promoting corporate green development and improving the ESG evaluation system.

Climate Change and Corporate Regulation: A Critical Analysis of Egypt’s Legal and Regulatory Regime

Corporations operating in African states generally have apathy to climate change/environmental regulation, owing to their weak economic bargaining strength in these states. Egypt is one of the African states suffering the disproportionate impacts of climate change and although it has drawn up several climate policy documents, it has not yet enacted a Climate Change Act and has a weak regulatory capacity to restrain adverse corporate climate change-impacting activities. This article critically analyses the legal/ regulatory regime in Egypt for regulating corporate participation in climate change mitigation and its effectiveness in addressing climate change challenges. It critically analyses the implementation of the Dilute Interventionism Model. It evaluates the required legislative framework, regulator, and technical expertise necessary for its successful implementation. This paper also highlights the importance of the Veto Firewall protection to maintain the independence of the sole independent regulator responsible for regulating the climate change activities of corporations. This paper argues that the Dilute Interventionism Model, in conjunction with the veto firewall paradigm, provides a practical and effective approach to regulating corporations. However, successful implementation will require political will, corporate compliance, and technical capacity. This paper provides policymakers, stakeholders, and interested parties in Egypt and elsewhere with useful insights for addressing climate change challenges.

How Does Corporate ESG Management Affect Consumers’ Brand Choice?

To overcome the serious climate crisis, the world must achieve carbon neutrality. Corporate participation is essential to achieve carbon neutrality, and ESG management is required to realize this. Additional efforts and costs are involved for a company to manage ESG. If a company’s ESG management is helpful for the company’s sustainable growth, the company will be willing to endure the effort and cost. Therefore, it is necessary to find out the impact of corporate ESG management on the brand. This study empirically analyzed the effects of corporate ESG management on brand image, brand attitude, brand attachment, and brand loyalty. ESG activities were divided into environmental and social and governance, to classify their impact. As a result of the study, it was found that environmental activities did not have a positive effect on brand image, brand attitude, and brand attachment. Social and governance activities were found to have a positive effect on brand image and brand attitude. In addition, it was found that social and governance activities affect brand loyalty through brand image, brand attitude, and brand attachment. The results of this study provide practical implications for corporate ESG management, and have theoretical significance in that they have expanded ESG-related research areas to consumer behavior, corporate strategy, and future economic fields.

Research on the Influence Mechanism of Corporate Social Responsibility on Financial Performance

In the process of social development, corporate social responsibility and corporate financial performance have widely concerned. In academia, there is numerous researches on the connection between the two. Reviewing pertinent academic writing on the CSR and financial effect is the goal of this study, sorting out how the two elements are related and guiding corporate participation in community responsibility functions. The study of this paper draws several conclusions. First of all, most businesses that participate in social responsibility initiatives can improve their financial performance. What’s more, the participation of a few companies in social responsibility activities has nothing to do with company performance or even hinders the company's business performance. The different impact results are related to the company's operating conditions, the purpose of participating in social responsibility activities, and social recognition. If companies wish to increase their financial returns through social responsibility, they must excel at strategic management.

Chromium as a tool of logistical power: A material political economy of open-source

Open-source software is used by almost all technology companies and has become an integral part of the technical infrastructure of digital capitalism. Generally, developers of open-source software have been viewed as a social movement at odds with the capitalist profit motive. This idealized view has been challenged as companies have made significant investments in open-source since the early 2000s. Current research frames corporate participation in open-source as fundamentally extractive in nature, failing to account for these sizable investments. Through a historical analysis of Google's Chromium browser project, we provide another way to understand corporate participation in open-source. This article takes a material political economic approach to argue that control of open-source projects can grant companies logistical power that enables them to influence standards and shape the Internet as an infrastructure for digital capitalism.

The Impact of Corporate Participation in Poverty Alleviation under the Background of Rural Revitalization on Financial Performance

The Impact of Corporate Participation in Poverty Alleviation under the Background of Rural Revitalization on Financial Performance

A Study on the Promotion of Public-Private Partnership to Respond to Infectious Diseases

Since the 20th century, the incidence of infectious diseases has been increasing owing to climate change, urbanization, and the convenience of movement. Countries worldwide have experienced great confusion in their response to COVID-19. At the same time, we also found that we can respond to pandemics more effectively when quarantine authorities and various social entities cooperate. Therefore, we compared and analyzed the early response cases of MERS and COVID-19 that we recently experienced. In particular, a comparative analysis was conducted on cooperative governance based on the participation of various social entities in disaster management. Cooperative governance is more effective when networks, roles and responsibilities, participation, and cooperation are well established. Accordingly, the cases of disaster response for infectious diseases were compared and analyzed with three key factors, and based on these, effective directions for revitalizing public-private partnerships were suggested. They are as follows: First, the government should strengthen support for existing disaster-related network organizations. Additionally, it is necessary to build a new network based on a smart society. Second, it is important to expand disaster education and training for disaster-related organizations and participants, strengthen intermediate support organizations, and expand the government's role in these areas. Finally, we present the importance of strengthening the system to form disaster-related private organizations that are centered on medical personnel, and expanding corporate participation.

EXPLORING HOSPITALITY STUDENTS’ EXPECTATION FOR INTERNSHIP PLACEMENT DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE CASE OF UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA STUDENTS

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the tourism and hospitality industry globally and the accommodation sector is amongst the hardest-hit. As for hospitality education, the internship program is part of the core component curricula for most undergraduate degrees which provide students with the opportunity to gain hands on experience within the industry. This paper provides some insights on issues and challenges faced by hospitality students in securing internship placements during the Covid-19 period. The study utilizes qualitative research methodology using in-depth interviews. The interviews are conducted through WhatsApp voice calls and video calls and WEBEX virtual meeting platform. The findings revealed problems faced by hospitality students when securing their internship placements. This paper offers some practical suggestions for the department in charge of internship placements to be more informed about the challenges faced by the students. This is vital as acknowledging the problems will help the university become more prepared when handling internship placements during the time of pandemic. More interaction between the industry and universities as well as corporate participation in internship acceptance are crucial for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Moving towards a circular economy model through I4.0 to accomplish the SDGs

In this study, we propose a Blockchain enabled Municipal Solid Waste Management Framework (SoGReIn Framework©) which will return benefits to the Consumers with corporate participation under Extended Producer’s Responsibility Protocol. This inclusive approach will require integrated efforts from Corporates, citizens, Government, NGOs, technocrats, academicians and the waste pickers. The benefits of the model can also be shared by all the stakeholders. The study is based on the insights received from exploring the experiences of some of the exemplar large residential housing communities located in the metropolitan cities in India who have undertaken voluntary efforts in segregating, recycling and reusing various types of wastes generated at the household level and converting them into resources. It further discusses how with the help of new age technology such efforts can help in negotiating corporate participation and help in the reduction of the consumption of plastic wastes. The model, thus suggested can help in furthering the attainment of multiple UN Sustainable Development goals.

Litigation Risk and Corporate Social Responsibility—Evidence from a Poverty Alleviation Campaign in China

This paper investigates the impact of an external uncertain factor, litigation risk, on corporate participation in Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) activities. It proposes and explores three possible mechanisms, namely, restore legitimacy, send positive signals, and maintain corporate reputation, for corporations to manage their litigation risk via the participation in TPA. Using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2016 to 2020, it shows that for corporations with high legitimacy pressure, high stakeholder concern, and strong reputation protection motive, litigation risk increases corporate investment in TPA. After litigation cases arise, corporations can manage their litigation risk through participation in TPA, thereby restoring legitimacy, sending positive signals, and maintaining corporate reputation. Furthermore, participation in TPA can also moderate the negative impact of litigation risk on enterprise value. The results remain significant after robustness tests on endogeneity, variable and measurement errors, and firm fixed effects. This paper is insightful for future studies relating to the economic consequences of litigation risk. Concurrently, by exploring the role of China’s legal environment in promoting the effect of corporate participation in TPA, this paper not only expands the scope of factors influencing corporate TPA inputs, but also provides policy implications for the formulation of China’s upcoming Rural Revitalization Strategy.

Breaking Silence: Corporate Voices in Polarized Political Discourse

Corporate participation in the public political sphere has drastically increased over the last decade, calling attention to the power and influence of corporate voices. To better understand this phenomenon, this paper focuses on corporations participating in the discussion of racism and inequality within the United States. This paper looks at firms’ discursive practices around race in June 2020 in response to George Floyd’s death. Using mixed methods, the paper examines the sequence of statements made by firms and how the content of these statements varied by company and with time. Findings indicate that early adopters use strategies to convey sincerity. Additionally, influence from stakeholders, ownership status, and previous participation in progressive activism have an effect on both the timing of firms’ responses, as well as the content of their statements. The paper provides a construct through which to examine whether a firm is being genuine in its sociopolitical efforts.

대구광역시 고령친화산업 발전방향에 대한 제언

If the proportion of population aged 65 or older exceeds 20%, it is called a "super-aged society," and according to the National Statistical Office's future population estimate, the proportion of population aged 65 or older reached 20.3% as of 2025. Accordingly, the government and local governments need to establish various policies according to the entry into an aging society. Korea is also aware of this situation and establishing and promoting policies for various elderly societies or elderly-friendly industries. However, there is a limitation in terms of policy efficiency as the approach to the situation or flow of the times is prioritized, not the multidimensional approach to the aging society and the aging-friendly industry. Therefore, this study suggested the direction of revitalization of the aging-friendly industry, policies, institutions, and corporate participation in the market sector through analysis of Japanese policies and markets that entered the aging society earlier than Korea. As a result of this study, it was confirmed that the elderly-friendly industry needs diversification of products and services and high added value accordingly, and business opportunities should be discovered and provided to products and services desired by the elderly. In addition, in terms of policy, the government and local governments need to make prior support policies for the elderly-friendly industry, and efforts for the interest and development of the elderly-friendly industry by local governments.

Business Response to Natural Disaster Mitigation (Covid-19): A Case From Pakistan

A company’s CSR attitude depends on the ethical values embraced and formally espoused by its Board and/or senior management. The response of corporates to natural disasters has proved to be beneficial for both for-profit organizations as well as society. There are several instances in the developed world where businesses played a leading role in both attempts to curb natural disasters as well as in helping people who suffered due to such disasters. However, in the developing world, the need for corporate participation in natural disaster mitigation is enhanced by the scarce resources of the relevant governmental agencies. Corporates can offer a helping hand in several ways, but perhaps one of the more effective steps is to spread awareness and knowledge about handling the various aspects of the disaster. Drawing from the available literature and underpinning the business ethics theories, this study aimed to explore business responses in Pakistan to constraint the Covid-19 pandemic. The study employs a two-step quantitative content analysis on Facebook as a research method. The findings are that the three selected industries (finance, telecommunication, and petroleum) remain more committed to their marketing efforts than paying due regard to the genuine need of spreading awareness and educating masses on protection against and/or handling Covid-19 pandemic. The public reaction to such less than adequate steps taken by the corporates provides a potent reminder of what people truly expect from corporates and how firms need to be more proactive toward response to a natural disaster.

Industrial Engagement in the Technical and Vocational Training (TVET) System

From 2010 through to 2021, this study critically assessed Malaysia's government efforts to increase industrial involvement in the country's TVET system. The goal of this research is to look at what the Malaysian government has done to strengthen industrial involvement in the country's TVET system from 2010 to 2021, as well as to make recommendations for any future changes. A textual narrative synthesis, based on three elements: strategy, execution, and the impact of those policies in promoting industrial involvement in the Malaysian TVET system, was used to conduct a systematic review. Five government policies since 2010 have been extracted from 231 linked-literature sources, each of which presented a strategy to improve industry-TVET cooperation. All of these government measures, according to the report, adopted a corporatist paradigm, in order to encourage corporate participation in the national TVET system. This was done by providing various incentives, including tax breaks, training grants, and subsidies. Improvements have been suggested to boost the industry-TVET relationship in Malaysia, particularly by giving connected industries some obligations to participate in the country's human-resource development, in comparison to the German model of the dual Apprenticeship programme.

Insurance Programs in the Renewable Energy Sources Projects

The development of projects using renewable energy sources (RES) necessitates the development of insurance programs and systems. This involves identifying and assessing the risks of renewable energy projects in the transition to new types of energy, determining typical corporate and specific risks, the need and content of the main types, forms of insurance contracts, assessing the financial condition, and choosing insurance organizations and reinsurance programs. This article focuses on the formation of such insurance programs, their interaction with industrial safety systems and ensuring corporate participation in achieving sustainable development goals; as well as selection and assessment of the insurer financial stability and the insurance RES programs economic efficiency.

Participation in Poverty Governance, Market Competition and Corporate Innovation: Based on Listed Companies’ Participation in Targeted Poverty Alleviation

The construction of the national governance system and the improvement of governance capability are the cornerstone for promoting stable social and economic development, which profoundly change the corporate external operating environment and then have an effect on the reform of internal corporate governance. Innovation is the inexhaustible driving force to enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises and prosper the market economy. So what effect will the corporate participation in external governance have on corporate innovation? Meanwhile, the government and the market give full play to the role of resource allocation in the process of corporate participation in governance. So is market competition an incentive for enterprises to innovate in the participation of social governance? Does the participation in governance affect corporate innovation only at the stage of innovation input?Based on the above problems and the background of listed companies’ participation in poverty alleviation, this paper explores the influence of participation in governance on corporate innovation from the two levels of macro governance and micro governance, the two perspectives of government and market, and the two dimensions of input and output, by using A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2016 to 2019 as the research sample. The empirical evidence suggests that enterprises which participate in governance will have “the pressure of governance” and generate the crowding-out effect of innovation investment to a certain extent from the perspective of investment. In other words, the poverty alleviation behavior of listed companies is significantly correlated with the intensity of innovation investment. However, greater market competition can significantly reduce the crowding-out effect and promote the incentive effect of innovation which functions as fundamental momentum. From the perspective of output, the result proves that the participation in poverty alleviation will promote the quantity and quality of corporate innovation output, as well as the efficiency of corporate innovation. The analysis of the heterogeneity of credit resources and government-business relationship shows that enterprises with harder access to credit resources and worse government-business relationship have a stronger crowding-out effect. Meanwhile, the study shows that the crowding-out effect will be significantly promoted as policy burdens increase and performance pressure of management decreases. The analysis of economic consequences finds that although the participation of enterprises in poverty governance squeezes their innovation input, it increases their innovation output, and the quantity and quality of corporate innovation output are improved. In other words, it contributes to the improvement of the innovation efficiency of enterprises.This paper is helpful to understand the innovation of enterprise entity further. It also provides some new ideas to straighten out the relationship between the government and the market as well as stimulate the innovation vitality of enterprises, which has academic significance and practical value in some degree.

WITHDRAWN: A study on impacts of organizational culture on organizational commitment using nine-dimensional approach

Abstract The relationship between organizational engagement and corporate culture within a Chennai City sample and examines the relationship between corporate culture and corporate participation. The findings showed that demographic factors including schooling, marriage and jobs had no substantial effect on the presence of the organization. This shows the positive relation with the commitment to the organization of an acceptable and creative company culture, but the connection between bureaucratic corporate culture and corporate commitment is small.

First-Mover Advantage and the Private Value of Public Science

Technical progress increasingly relies on the use of scientific knowledge. But if much of this knowledge is in the public domain, can it be a source of private value? We find that average private returns to using public science are small, especially in crowded technical fields, consistent with the view that the expected profit from an input that others can easily access is low. However, private value is higher when a firm is the first to use science, partly because it can secure broader patents relative to later users. Finally, corporate participation in scientific research is a strong predictor of first use, especially of relevant science. This is consistent with the view that participation in science raises familiarity with relevant scientific advances.