Environmental and Financial Performance

Environmental and Financial Performance
Author: Mark A. Cohen
Publisher: Investor Responsibility
Total Pages: 27
Release: 1995
Genre: Corporate profits
ISBN: 9781879775268

Discover which foreign companies are conducting or are considering conducting business in southern Africa. Abstracts of nearly 2000 firms include the locations, product lines, number of employees & the amount of assets & sales in southern Africa. For companies with non-equity links, abstracts include the name & location of the company's South African distributor or licensee. Appendices sort companies by industry sector, size & location. The "Company Watch" section identifies firms that have announced plans to establish business ties to southern Africa.

Environmental Efficiency, Innovation and Economic Performances

Environmental Efficiency, Innovation and Economic Performances
Author: Anna Montini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2010-07-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136962190

This volume brings together microeconomics studies on firms’ eco and economic performance both in the industrial and service sector; by considering a sector based perspective rooted mainly in the exploitation of NAMEA data; at regional level, and a macroeconomic analysis of the environment, income and welfare.

Environmental Policy and Corporate Behaviour

Environmental Policy and Corporate Behaviour
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2007-03-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9264175075

An in-depth empirical analysis of an industrial survey spanning 4000 facilities in all manufacturing sectors and of all sizes illustrating the links between government environmental policies and company environmental management, investments innovation and performance.

Sustainability Accounting and Reporting

Sustainability Accounting and Reporting
Author: Stefan Schaltegger
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2006-09-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1402049749

This is the fourth in a series publishing the best contributions on environmental management accounting (EMA) from around the world. This volume brings together international examples of leading thinking and practice in this rapidly developing area. This is the most comprehensive volume to date covering theory, practice and case studies on sustainability accounting and reporting. It covers tools, frameworks, concepts as well as case studies and empirical analysis.

Designing Financial Systems in Transition Economies

Designing Financial Systems in Transition Economies
Author: Anna Meyendorff
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262133913

This collection examines the design of financial systems for central and eastern European countries engaged in the transition to market-based economies. It highlights the need for better approaches to measuring performance and providing incentives in banking and for financial mechanisms to encourage private-sector growth. Written by leading European and North American scholars, the essays apply modern finance theory and empirical data to the development of new financial sectors.

Handbook of Research on Waste Management Techniques for Sustainability

Handbook of Research on Waste Management Techniques for Sustainability
Author: Akkucuk, Ulas
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2015-12-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1466697245

Sustainability is a growing area of research in ecology, economics, environmental science, business, and cultural studies. Specifically, sustainable waste disposal and management is a growing concern as both solid and liquid wastes are rapidly expanding in direct correlation with population growth and improved economic conditions across regions. The Handbook of Research on Waste Management Techniques for Sustainability explores the topic of sustainable development in an era where domestic and municipal waste is becoming a concern for both human and environmental health. Highlighting a number of topics relating to pollution, green initiatives, and waste reduction in both the public and private sector, this research-based publication is designed for use by environmental scientists, business executives, researchers, graduate-level students, and policymakers seeking the latest information on sustainability in business, medicine, agriculture, and society.

Individual Behaviors and Technologies for Financial Innovations

Individual Behaviors and Technologies for Financial Innovations
Author: Wesley Mendes-Da-Silva
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2018-07-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319919113

This book offers comprehensive examination of research on the relevance of individual behavior and technology to financial innovations. The chapters cover current topics in finance including integrated reporting, people finance, crowdfunding, and corporate networks. It provides readers with an organized starting point to explore individual behaviors and new technologies used in financial innovations. The explicit and growing speed of the spread of new technologies has hastened the emergence of innovation in the field of finance. Topics like the Internet of Things, semantic computing and big data finance are motivating the construction of financial tools that translate into new financial mechanisms. This book strives help readers better understand the dynamic of the changes in financial systems and the proliferation of financial products. Individual Behaviors and Technologies for Financial Innovations is organized in 16 chapters, organized in three parts. Part I has eight chapters that review the research on gender differences in attitudes about risk and propensity to purchase automobile insurance, financial literacy models for college students, wellness and attitude of university students in the use of credit cards, impact of programs income distribution and propensity to remain in employment, financial literacy and propensity to resort to informal financing channels, risk behavior in the use of credit cards by students. Part II reviews the research on financing for startups and SMEs, exploring funding through crowdfunding platform, operating credit unions, and using networks of friends to finance small businesses outside the domestic market. The four chapters of Part III describe contexts of financial innovation in listed companies, including society's demands on their behavior - we discuss motivations for companies to participate in corporate sustainability indexes, corporate performance through their profile of socially responsible investments, influence of networks of social relations in the formation of boards, and management of companies, and also the precariousness of financial decisions in large companies, as well as the role of the internet in corporate communication with the market.