The KLD database captures firms' responsiveness towards various different stakeholder groups (consumers, employees, the community, diversity-related stakeholders, environmental action groups) and hence spans a wide range of CSR topics.
This study differentiates between the firm-level performance labels CSR positive, neutral and negative through measuring the score on various CSR strengths and concerns of firms on seven different categories (community, corporate governance, diversity, employee relations, environment, human rights, product) that evaluate firms' stakeholder responsiveness.
If properly leveraged, such diversity has the potential to reduce the groupthink that hampers the creativity and responsiveness of Korean firms today, as well as facilitating greater success in overseas markets.
According to BitSight, the leading firm monitoring cyber-attacks and corporate responsiveness, most successful attacks occur when bad guys exploit "known vulnerabilities," which are vulnerabilities for which a patch exists but it has not been downloaded.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been defined as "a configuration of principles of social responsibility, processes of social responsiveness, and policies, programs, and observable outcomes as they relate to the firm's societal relationships (author's italics)" [[ 49], p. 693].
The MSDD enables a firm to simultaneously achieve cost, quality, delivery responsiveness to the customer, and flexibility objectives.
With intense competition for market share and profits, information systems and technology (IST) sourcing decisions are becoming increasingly important to e-Retail firms to support continued growth and market responsiveness.
The high elasticity (responsiveness on the part of firms) to corporate income taxation draws a sharp contrast with on the elasticity of individual income taxation.
Consequently, we raise the following hypothesis: H5: better responsiveness (Res) has positive impact on firm's performance.
Smaller firms don't always have the resources to fully invest and understand their IT solutions, often opting for the lowest-barrier option that offers reliability, responsiveness and a positive effect on their firm's day-to-day needs.
