Mohammad Badrul Muttakin, Arifur Khan, Nava Subramaniam
Purpose – This study aims to purport to investigate the relationship between firm size, profitability, board diversity (namely, director gender and nationality) and the extent of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures within a developing nation context. Design/methodology/approach – The d...
Josep Bohigas, Vincent Chireh, Oscar Zapata, Cecil C. Konijnendijk et al.
Restrictions on the use of public space and social distancing have been key policy measures to reduce the transmission of SAR-CoV-2 and protect public health. At the time of writing, one half of the world’s population has been asked to stay home and avoid many public places. What will be the long te...
Appel Mahmud, Donghong Ding, Morshadul Hasan
The global health, economic, and social impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are growing day by day. Over the past few months, first China, and now the whole world has been grappling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in businesses, employees, customers, communities, and each other....
Shahed Imam
Corporate Social Reporting (CSR) assumes that the companies are socially conscious to discharge their social obligations for the well being of the society. Now business enterprises are under pressure from stakeholders to report to them, as to what extent they have been successful in protecting their...
Eric Emerson
BACKGROUND: Social gradients and ethnic disparities have been reported in some forms of intellectual and developmental disabilities. However, information on the association between area deprivation, ethnicity and other forms of intellectual and developmental disabilities are inconclusive. AIM: To es...
A. K. Awasthi, Venkata Ravi Sankar Cheela, Idiano D’Adamo, Eleni Iacovidou et al.
On 30 June 2020, young scholars presented & discussed their work in a virtual forum, as a special session organized by The 15th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology (June 28–30), 2020 Beijing China. The forum convened researchers and attendees approaching innovative aspects of...
Jack C. Green, Donald W. Griesinger
Abstract This article examines the tasks and responsibilities of nonprofit boards of directors and explores the relationship between board performance and organizational effectiveness. Thirty‐three activities in nine areas of board responsibility were examined through questionnaires and interviews w...
Alison L. Kitson
BACKGROUND: Despite over 40 years' work on general systems theory, informed by critical social science, there is a mismatch between the theories used to explain and influence clinical practice in nursing and the way in which transferring new knowledge into practice is articulated. DATA SOURCES: The ...
Fahian Anisul Huq, Mark Stevenson
The implementation of socially sustainable practices in suppliers situated in challenging institutional contexts is examined using institutional theory, both in terms of how institutional pressures affect implementation and what explains the decoupling of practices from the day-to-day reality. A mul...
Rosalind Edwards, Bogusia Temple, Claire Alexander
This article explores the experiences of people who need interpreters to gain access to and use of a range of services, drawing on semi-structured interviews with people from Chinese, Kurdish, Bangladeshi, Indian and Polish minority ethnic groups living in Manchester and London, UK. We describe our ...
David Giauque, Adrian Ritz, Frédéric Varone, Simon Anderfuhren-Biget
This article examines the relationship between red tape, Public Service Motivation (PSM) and a particular work outcome labelled ‘resigned satisfaction’. Using data from a national survey of over 3754 public servants working at the municipal level in Switzerland, this study shows the importance of lo...
Farid Ahammad Sobhani, Azlan Amran, Yuserrie Zainuddin
Ahmed Rizvan Hasan
This is a review work in the area of application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Accounting and Auditing. A semi-systematic or narrative review approach was employed in analyzing relevant published books and journals. Faced with the challenges of disruptive technologies brought forth by the Indus...
David Pelletier, Edward A. Frongillo, Suzanne Gervais, Lesli Hoey et al.
Undernutrition is the single largest contributor to the global burden of disease and can be addressed through a number of highly efficacious interventions. Undernutrition generally has not received commensurate attention in policy agendas at global and national levels, however, and implementing thes...
Shahzad Uddin, Jamal Choudhury
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of corporate governance practices in Bangladesh. This paper demonstrates that the traditionalist culture mediates the rationalist/legalist framework of corporate governance in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach A series of semi‐structur...