"When consumers go into stores and ask about slavery-free products," Boneberg asserts, "businesses will eventually have to do some research and find out".
The second criticism is that the evidence of stronger effects of business assistance living wage laws cannot be reconciled with the fact (which is asserted) that business assistance provisions cover almost no workers.
Although he was criticized for overstating the connection between human behaviour and economic rationalism, Lucas influenced other 20th-century economists who asserted that business fluctuations resulted from underlying changes in the economy.
The audience's smiles shifted to raised eyebrows as Mr. Bloomberg asserted that business people -- more so than government officials -- were "interested in doing what's right for the organization" rather than for themselves.
A German economic historian, Jacob van Klaveren, writing in the 1950's on the origins of corruption between the state and private business, asserted that corruption in business had begun with the East India Companies.
With his distinctive hyperbole, Logue asserted "most businesses will have to fold up shop or relocate" because of AB 32.
Before the Gekkos came along, they assert, American business was sluggish, unproductive, and uncompetitive.
The managers of the Bottom Line assert that business has slowed since the terrorist attacks.
In the meantime, he asserts, "Small business groups should put their shoulder to the wheel on state economic development policy reform".
One of the more cited definitions of CSR in the literature by Carroll (1979) asserts that business organisations that practice social responsibility fulfil "economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary (philanthropic) expectations that society has of organisations at a given point in time" (Carroll, 1979, p. 499).
