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Study: Nonprofits put brand at risk in corporate partnerships

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Charities and other nonprofits may put their brand at risk when they partner with corporations on social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. The public can easily construe such connections as a seal of approval of the corporation ...


Professor: Fear, Shame Keep Homeowners From Defaulting

Professor: Fear, Shame Keep Homeowners From Defaulting

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brent T. White, a University of Arizona associate professor of law, said policymakers must consider ways that emotions drive financial decisions.


Social Responsibility Does Not Mitigate Negative Market Response Due to Crisis, New Study Finds

Other Sciences / Economics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Clients of the major accounting firm Arthur Anderson sustained negative stock-market returns following public announcement that the firm had shredded documents related to its infamous Enron audit in 2002. ...





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Determining responsibility and assigning punishment governed by different brain systems

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study reveals that humans use different neural mechanisms for determining criminal responsibility and assigning an appropriate punishment. The research, published by Cell Press in the December 11th issue of the journal ...


Political views affect firms' corporate social responsibility

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 17, 2008 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0

A new study in The Financial Review establishes a relationship between political beliefs of corporate stakeholders and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of their firms. Companies with a high CSR rating tend to be ...


Biological fathers not necessarily the best, social dads parent well too

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 31, 2008 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A large number of U.S. children live or will live with a "social father," a man who is married to or cohabiting with the child's mother, but is not the biological father. A new study in the Journal of Marriage and Family examin ...


Researchers were still able to find the deleted photos 30 days later

Social networking sites 'keep deleted photos' - research

Technology / Internet

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites including Facebook after people have deleted them, British researchers said Thursday.


Corporate social responsibility: less profit, more value

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 07, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Companies that operate in a socially responsible manner 'pay' for this with a loss in financial profit. Yet at the same time, socially responsible business practices can enhance a company's value. Dutch economist Lammertjan ...


How adolescent girls manage stress

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Greater influence over everyday life, emotional support, and cultural and recreational activities help to enable teenage girls to withstand stress. Those were the results of a dissertation from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University ...


Young men living at home with parents are more violent

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Young men who stay at home with their parents are more violent than those who live independently, according to new research at Queen Mary, University of London.


Online technical support forums build social capital

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 17, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Consumers in search of product related information and technical support often turn to virtual communities for help. A forthcoming examination in the April 2008 Journal of Consumer Research of virtual P3 communities – peer ...


New study calls for global project finance reform

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 28, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The worldwide financial crisis puts a new emphasis on infrastructure spending, seen by many governments as a way to head off economic downturn, and as a way of holding on to achievements made in the developing world. Recent ...


Physical education teaching staff play key role in making you like sport

Physical education teaching staff play key role in making you like sport

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What factors have an influence in making us like sport in the physical education classes we receive in school? According to a new investigation, physical education teaching staff must develop the responsibility, ...



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