Lists & More Lists: Making Sense Of Corporate Reputations

What would you like to know about a company?  What value has the company created in the past, is creating currently, and will create in the future?  The creation of financial value is not only important; it is necessary - but is it enough? This study explores the relationships between and among lists of top performers - Boston College’s Corporate Social Responsibility Index, Fortune’s World's Most Admired Companies, <a href="http://www.harrisinteractive.com/">Harris Interactive’s</a> Reputation Quotient for the Most Visible Companies, and Newsweek’s Green Rankings of America's 500 largest corporations. Its objective is to see whether in spite of differing methodologies and criteria for rankings, there is a commonality of inclusion in lists. In effect, this paper attempts use statistical analysis in order to determine if there is an agreement as to which companies are top corporate citizens in the United States.

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Global Trends In The Commercialization Of Space

Journal of Business & Economics Research (JBER) ◽

10.19030/jber.v6i8.2462 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 6 (8) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joseph A. Giacalone

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Space Policy ◽

Space Program ◽

Economic Data ◽

Font Size ◽

Global Trends ◽

The Past ◽

Past Half Century ◽

Past Half

For the past half century, the commercial potential of space has been a major rationale for the space program in the United States and elsewhere. This paper will provide an overview of space-related industries, which accounted for global revenues in the range of $106 billion by 2006, and the drivers that impact their development. It incorporates the evolution of space policy, recent economic data, and the emergence of the private spaceflight industry.

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Corporate Inversions And Fair Play

Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR) ◽

10.19030/jabr.v29i3.7771 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 653

Author(s):

Scott L. Butterfield ◽

Lou X. Orchard

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Current Practice ◽

The United States ◽

Fair Play ◽

Font Size ◽

Political Pressure ◽

Tax Havens ◽

Finance Committee ◽

A Company ◽

Political Actions

A Corporate inversion is a process that a company undergoes to change the domicile of the parent corporation in a multinational corporate conglomerate to a country other than the United States. J. S. Barry (2002) quotes U.S. Senator Max Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, as saying: "Prominent U.S. companies are literally re-incorporating in off-shore tax havens in order to avoid U.S. taxes. They are, in effect, renouncing their U.S. citizenship to cut their tax bill. This is very troubling, especially now, as we all try to pull together as a nation." Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking Republican member of the Finance Committee, has called inversions "immoral." Stanley Works, a corporation based in Connecticut, planned to re-incorporate in Bermuda. A Democratic Representative from that state, James Maloney, said, "Connecticut hasn't seen such a shameful day since Benedict Arnold sailed away." Stanley Works buckled under political pressure and did not go forward with the planned inversion. This paper addresses the current practice of corporate inversions, and reviews the current legal and political actions taken to address them.

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Alone in the world?: Making sense of Canada’s disputes with Saudi Arabia and China

International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis ◽

10.1177/0020702019834652 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 74 (1) ◽

pp. 151-161

Author(s):

Roland Paris

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Human Rights ◽

Saudi Arabia ◽

The United States ◽

Authoritarian Regimes ◽

International Support ◽

The Past ◽

Making Sense ◽

The World

Canada has found itself in serious diplomatic disputes over the past year with Saudi Arabia and China. The Saudis took issue with the Canadian foreign minister’s call to release human rights activists from prison, whereas China was angry at Canada’s arrest of a senior Chinese executive on an extradition request from the United States. These incidents should not be viewed as isolated aberrations. Authoritarian regimes seem increasingly emboldened to lash out at countries that displease them, including allies of the United States. But Ottawa has succeeded in rallying considerable international support for its position in the China dispute, suggesting that while Canada may be exposed, it is not destined to be alone.

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Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Cross-Cultural Management Revisited ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198857471.003.0010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 165-186

Author(s):

Philippe D’Iribarne ◽

Sylvie Chevrier ◽

Alain Henry ◽

Jean-Pierre Segal ◽

Geneviève Tréguer-Felten

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Corporate Social Responsibility ◽

Social Responsibility ◽

The United States ◽

External Stakeholders ◽

Ethical Approaches ◽

Corporate Social ◽

Different Cultures ◽

A Company ◽

Cultural Embeddedness

The variety of values and customs strongly affects the behaviours considered to be morally acceptable, the motivations to behave ethically, and the types of control that a company can legitimately exercise over its employees. This chapter displays the benchmarks within which ethical approaches make sense in different cultures, both for company employees and for external stakeholders. First, the cultural embeddedness of social responsibility issues is examined with a focus on the differences between the approaches that prevail in France and in the United States. In the second part, the question of corruption is addressed through an Argentinian case. It is further developed by scrutinizing the differences between cultures in which an ethic of respect for principles prevails and those in which an ethic of loyalty towards relatives and friends is favoured.

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International Research and Variation in Views of Ethnicity

Perspectives on Global Issues in Communication Sciences and Related Disorders ◽

10.1044/gics2.2.66 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 66-72

Author(s):

Ella Inglebret ◽

Amy Skinder-Meredith ◽

Shana Bailey ◽

Carla Jones ◽

Ashley France

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Classification System ◽

International Research ◽

The United States ◽

Research Articles ◽

Journal Articles ◽

Research Participants ◽

The Past ◽

International Scale ◽

Publication Patterns

The authors in this article first identify the extent to which research articles published in three American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) journals included participants, age birth to 18 years, from international backgrounds (i.e., residence outside of the United States), and go on to describe associated publication patterns over the past 12 years. These patterns then provide a context for examining variation in the conceptualization of ethnicity on an international scale. Further, the authors examine terminology and categories used by 11 countries where research participants resided. Each country uses a unique classification system. Thus, it can be expected that descriptions of the ethnic characteristics of international participants involved in research published in ASHA journal articles will widely vary.

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Proportion of Individuals With Past-Year Suicidal Ideation Who Attempted Suicide Over the Past 10 Years in the United States, and the Influence of Age and Sex

Crisis ◽

10.1027/0227-5910/a000690 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-5

Author(s):

Shannon Lange ◽

Courtney Bagge ◽

Charlotte Probst ◽

Jürgen Rehm

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Suicidal Ideation ◽

Random Effects ◽

Attempted Suicide ◽

Suicide Attempts ◽

The United States ◽

Individual Level ◽

The Past ◽

Meta Analyses ◽

Age Category

Abstract. Background: In recent years, the rate of death by suicide has been increasing disproportionately among females and young adults in the United States. Presumably this trend has been mirrored by the proportion of individuals with suicidal ideation who attempted suicide. Aim: We aimed to investigate whether the proportion of individuals in the United States with suicidal ideation who attempted suicide differed by age and/or sex, and whether this proportion has increased over time. Method: Individual-level data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 2008–2017, were used to estimate the year-, age category-, and sex-specific proportion of individuals with past-year suicidal ideation who attempted suicide. We then determined whether this proportion differed by age category, sex, and across years using random-effects meta-regression. Overall, age category- and sex-specific proportions across survey years were estimated using random-effects meta-analyses. Results: Although the proportion was found to be significantly higher among females and those aged 18–25 years, it had not significantly increased over the past 10 years. Limitations: Data were self-reported and restricted to past-year suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Conclusion: The increase in the death by suicide rate in the United States over the past 10 years was not mirrored by the proportion of individuals with past-year suicidal ideation who attempted suicide during this period.

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EDITORIAL: Migration and competitiveness: Japan and the United States

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v10i2.138 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 115-124

Author(s):

Philip L. Martin

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Variable Cost ◽

Fixed Cost ◽

Special Issue ◽

Science And Engineering ◽

The Past ◽

Past Half Century ◽

Key Sectors ◽

Past Half

Japan and the United States, the world’s largest economies for most of the past half century, have very different immigration policies. Japan is the G7 economy most closed to immigrants, while the United States is the large economy most open to immigrants. Both Japan and the United States are debating how immigrants are and can con-tribute to the competitiveness of their economies in the 21st centuries. The papers in this special issue review the employment of and impacts of immigrants in some of the key sectors of the Japanese and US economies, including agriculture, health care, science and engineering, and construction and manufacturing. For example, in Japanese agriculture migrant trainees are a fixed cost to farmers during the three years they are in Japan, while US farmers who hire mostly unauthorized migrants hire and lay off workers as needed, making labour a variable cost.

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Democratic Legitimacy

10.23943/princeton/9780691149486.001.0001 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Pierre Rosanvallon

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Democratic Legitimacy ◽

Political Leaders ◽

Constitutional Courts ◽

International Debate ◽

The Past ◽

Democratic Authority ◽

Original Contribution ◽

Western Democracies

It's a commonplace occurrence that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But this book argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. The book makes the case that the sources of democratic legitimacy have shifted and multiplied over the past thirty years and that we need to comprehend and make better use of these new sources of legitimacy in order to strengthen our political self-belief and commitment to democracy. Drawing on examples from France and the United States, the book notes that there has been a major expansion of independent commissions, NGOs, regulatory authorities, and watchdogs in recent decades. At the same time, constitutional courts have become more willing and able to challenge legislatures. These institutional developments, which serve the democratic values of impartiality and reflexivity, have been accompanied by a new attentiveness to what the book calls the value of proximity, as governing structures have sought to find new spaces for minorities, the particular, and the local. To improve our democracies, we need to use these new sources of legitimacy more effectively and we need to incorporate them into our accounts of democratic government. This book is an original contribution to the vigorous international debate about democratic authority and legitimacy.

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The Riddle of a Common History

Journal of Educational Media Memory and Society ◽

10.3167/jemms.2009.010107 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 93-116 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Common Ground ◽

The United States ◽

History Textbooks ◽

Recent History ◽

History Textbook ◽

The Past ◽

The Us ◽

Constant Part ◽

Intrinsic Component

By identifying two general issues in recent history textbook controversies worldwide (oblivion and inclusion), this article examines understandings of the United States in Mexico's history textbooks (especially those of 1992) as a means to test the limits of historical imagining between U. S. and Mexican historiographies. Drawing lessons from recent European and Indian historiographical debates, the article argues that many of the historical clashes between the nationalist historiographies of Mexico and the United States could be taught as series of unsolved enigmas, ironies, and contradictions in the midst of a central enigma: the persistence of two nationalist historiographies incapable of contemplating their common ground. The article maintains that lo mexicano has been a constant part of the past and present of the US, and lo gringo an intrinsic component of Mexico's history. The di erences in their historical tracks have been made into monumental ontological oppositions, which are in fact two tracks—often overlapping—of the same and shared con ictual and complex experience.

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The Challenges of Displaying “Asian American”: Curatorial Perspectives and Critical Approaches

10.36650/nexus5.1_12-32_wang ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 12-32

Author(s):

ShiPu Wang

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Asian American ◽

Financial Support ◽

American Art ◽

The United States ◽

Community Leaders ◽

Art Exhibitions ◽

The Past ◽

Critical Approaches ◽

Racial Demographics

This essay delineates the issues concerning AAPI art exhibitions from a curator’s perspective, particularly in response to the changing racial demographics and economics of the past decades. A discussion of practical, curatorial problems offers the reader an overview of the obstacles and reasons behind the lack of exhibitions of AAPI works in the United States. It is the author’s hope that by understanding the challenges particular to AAPI exhibitions, community leaders, and patrons will direct future financial support to appropriate museum operations, which in turn will encourage more exhibitions and research of the important artistic contribution of AAPI artists to American art.

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