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Publication date: 15 October 2013

Edward T. Walker

Corporate foundations – entities established to regularize corporate giving at an arm’s length removed from the firm – command substantial resources, root companies in the…

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Corporate foundations – entities established to regularize corporate giving at an arm’s length removed from the firm – command substantial resources, root companies in the nonprofit sectors of their host communities, indirectly augment perceptions of corporate responsibility, and help firms to deflect controversies in an attentive global media environment. Despite these important roles, relatively little research has examined the institutional and strategic factors that influence such proximate charitable giving by firms. Using systematic data on foundations linked to S&P 3000 firms in the health sector – a growing domain in which public trust in high-stakes products and services is critical – fixed-effects models illustrate the primary role of network influences on giving: corporate foundations give substantially more in years following higher contributions by other (noncorporate) foundations in the health sector in a firm’s headquarters locality and also following increased contributions by industry peers through their corporate foundations. Giving also appears to reflect strategic reputational concerns, in that foundation contributions increase significantly following controversies associated with the corporate parent’s products and/or services. By contrast, giving tends to decline as the presence of outside directors on a firm’s board increases, as well as when firms carry heavier debt loads. Combined, these findings suggest that corporate foundations serve as a strategic proxy for the firm, reflecting both a company's position in community and interfirm networks while also mitigating the threat of reputational challenges.

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Voices of Globalization
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ISBN: 978-1-78190-546-3

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Publication date: 5 April 2019

Hokyu Hwang and David Suárez

Charities in the United States contribute to the public good by delivering a broad range of services and by promoting civic engagement and social change. Though these dual roles…

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Charities in the United States contribute to the public good by delivering a broad range of services and by promoting civic engagement and social change. Though these dual roles are widely acknowledged, a relatively few studies explore advocacy among service-providing nonprofits. Analyzing a random sample of charities in the San Francisco Bay Area, the authors conceptualize nonprofits as institutionally embedded formal organizations and actors. The authors find that a majority of service providers blend advocacy and service provision. Organizational rationalization constructs nonprofits as goal-oriented actors working to benefit their constituents and society at large, increasing the likelihood that nonprofits will embrace advocacy. Moreover, collaboration embeds nonprofits in networks of mobilization and information for advocacy and facilitates engagement in political and social change activities. By contrast, embeddedness in the market is negatively associated with advocacy. These results reinforce the salient role of service-providing nonprofits in collective civic action and demonstrate how nonprofit embeddedness in multiple institutional influences affects engagement in advocacy.

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Agents, Actors, Actorhood: Institutional Perspectives on the Nature of Agency, Action, and Authority
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ISBN: 978-1-78756-081-9

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Publication date: 1 December 1913

IN an address delivered recently before the members of the Library Assistants' Association, Mr. R. T. L. Parr, a Local Government Auditor, revived the suggestion that Public…

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IN an address delivered recently before the members of the Library Assistants' Association, Mr. R. T. L. Parr, a Local Government Auditor, revived the suggestion that Public Libraries should be merged in the Education Authority. At first sight the suggestion seems reasonable. Public Libraries are a part and an important part, of the educational machinery of the country; a fact that the public are slow to acknowledge, if one can judge from the meagreness of the funds placed at the disposal of library authorities. Past efforts to increase generally the limited library rate of one penny in the pound have failed signally, while the unlimited general education rate has been rising steadily, without any great protests being made by rate‐payers. Why not, then, adopt Mr. Parr's suggestion, and drop all efforts to promote the new Libraries Bill, and instead favour an Education Bill, in which the necessary reforms for public libraries could be inserted? If this could be done without public libraries being placed under the control of the Board of Education, well and good, but, if not, it is advisable to pause and consider. For many years librarians have been endeavouring to organize their profession, and there is a great danger in the individuality of librarianship being swallowed up in general education. The work of the librarian is quite distinct from that of the teacher, and unless the librarian preserves his individuality he is lost. If public libraries are ever placed under the control of the Government, librarians would be well advised to see that they are specially administered on a professional basis, and not run by educationalists to whom the technique of librarianship is a thing unknown. An example of an attempt to combine librarianship with education is dealt with in the succeeding note. Apart from the idea of placing public libraries under the control of the Board of Education, a state of affairs that we do not recommend, librarians would do well to adopt Mr. Parr's hints, and talk more of the educational value of libraries, for it is in this direction that most influence can be brought to bear upon public thought.

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New Library World, vol. 16 no. 6
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ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 19 April 2018

Chris Brown

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How Social Science Can Help Us Make Better Choices
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ISBN: 978-1-78754-353-9

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Publication date: 1 November 1918

Events are moving so rapidly that we feel breathless in our attempt to keep pace with the changing fortunes of the day and of the hour. If we believe, however, as we do, that…

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Events are moving so rapidly that we feel breathless in our attempt to keep pace with the changing fortunes of the day and of the hour. If we believe, however, as we do, that libraries are one of the primary factors in human evolution, and that books form the indispensable factor of all evolution in knowledge, there is no period in the world's history when those of us who are associated with the library movement have more reason to pause and enquire, “Watchman, what of the night?” It will be a difficult and sudden transition with which we are to be faced. We are accustomed to talk glibly of war and of peace. We have had four years of education in the former, but are we in any real sense in a position to deal with the problems of peace and of reconstruction? Peace has to so many meant merely a state or condition in which actual warfare has been absent. A breathing space in which the nations have been more or less preparing for the next inevitable clash of arms. If there is anything that emerges clearly as a result of this war it is that the large majority of those who have been engaged in it are determined that as far as humanly possible this shall have been a war to end all war. We must educate ourselves and the great mass of our people to take a long and a sane view of the situation and work towards a lasting and permanent reconciliation among the peoples of the world. Call it a “League of Nations,” or what you will, it has to come, and the public library will in our judgment form a very potent instrument to attain the desired end.

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New Library World, vol. 21 no. 5
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ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 April 1995

J COLMAN

The Defendants, two associated companies, acted as underwriting agents for the Plaintiff under various underwriting agency agreements. The agreements were terminated and ceased to…

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The Defendants, two associated companies, acted as underwriting agents for the Plaintiff under various underwriting agency agreements. The agreements were terminated and ceased to operate for further underwriting at the end of 1991, but the Defendants were authorised to continue to manage the run‐off in relation to risks written on behalf of the Plaintiff. Each of the agreements, by cl. 4.2, contained an express provision whereby the Plaintiff was entitled to inspect and take extracts from or make copies of ‘all necessary books, accounts, records and other documentation’ appertaining to the insurance business transacted on the Plaintiffs behalf, although the records were to be the property of the Defendants.

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Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, vol. 3 no. 4
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ISSN: 1358-1988

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Publication date: 1 March 1992

Mustard, as a spice, has been adding its distinctive flavour to food for thousands of years. The Romans, for example, in earlier times used to crunch the seeds between their teeth…

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Mustard, as a spice, has been adding its distinctive flavour to food for thousands of years. The Romans, for example, in earlier times used to crunch the seeds between their teeth during meals and later used mustard to preserve vegetables, a forerunner of what we know as piccalilli. The discovery of the medicinal properties of mustard has been attributed to Aesculapius, the Greek god of medicine. Mustard soon became a valued medicinal product; particularly as a powerful and rapid brain stimulant.

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Nutrition & Food Science, vol. 92 no. 3
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ISSN: 0034-6659

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Publication date: 17 December 2015

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Knowing, Becoming, doing as Teacher Educators: Identity, Intimate Scholarship, Inquiry
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ISBN: 978-1-78441-140-4

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Publication date: 17 December 2015

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Knowing, Becoming, doing as Teacher Educators: Identity, Intimate Scholarship, Inquiry
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Publication date: 17 December 2015

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