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The Indian government made Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) mandatory in 2013 by amending the Companies Act, complicating research studies on the topic. This paper is a bibliometric analysis of recent trends in research on CSR in India. VOSViewer is employed to visualize networks such as keyword co-occurrences and author collaborations. With the help of BibExcel, other aspects of bibliometric analysis are carried out. Based on an analysis of 685 papers/retrieved articles from Scopus, the study finds that a company's financial performance has become central to CSR orientation in recent years. Co-occurring keywords suggest that sustainability issue is becoming important and that CSR fosters a positive brand image of companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores What role does Romanticism play in the history of sexuality? How did British and European Romantic texts and practices participate in the emergence of modern sexuality? How anachronistic is it to use the term "sexuality" when describing Romanticism? This session is open to considering such topics as (among others) the relation between gender experimentation and sexual experimentation; Romantic "sexology"

Previous research has shown that, despite the low-income levels in developing countries, cost recovery is a prerequisite for sustainability of urban water services. The challenge for service improvement is continually growing, as it is projected that 88% of the increase in global population will live in urban centres of low-income countries by the year 2015. Yet bill collection efficiency in some African urban water utilities is lower than 50%. In order to improve cost recovery levels, the new public managerialism paradigm suggests that water utility managers need to change their business philosophy from being supply-driven to engendering customer focus. This study used empirical data, obtained through a cross-sectional survey in 11 major towns in Uganda to establish customer perceptions that influence bill payment behaviour of water utility customers. Regression analysis of data obtained showed that service value and customer satisfaction contribute about 20% of the variation in customer loyalty, which in turn significantly influences bill payment behaviour. Therefore, in order to improve cost recovery, utility managers have to work towards improving customer satisfaction and perceived value of the services delivered. The effect of corporate image, of significance in high-income countries, was not found to be relevant in Uganda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Gabbott and Hogg concerning how service encounters are influenced by non-verbal communication, and an article by Cornelissen and Harris concerning the definition of corporate identity.

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According to external pressure theory and reputation theory, reputation-oriented enterprises will experience external pressure as societal attention increases, and enhanced ESG performance can mitigate information asymmetry and boost reputation, thereby signaling to customers the company's commitment to sustainable development. Based on the data of A-share listed firms in China, this paper manually compiles the detailed information of corporate customers, and explores the relationship between firm's ESG performance and customer stability using a two-way fixed-effects model. The results show that: (1) Firms with ESG advantages can enhance customer stability, and the higher the ESG score, the more significant the improvement in customer stability; (2) The mechanism test indicates that firms' ESG performance improves customer stability by strengthening internal and external regulation as well as enhancing corporate reputation; (3) The heterogeneity analysis indicates that in high governance level and small-sized firms, the effect of firms' ESG performance on customer stability is more significant, and in the ESG sub-test, environmental and social responsibility have a more significant impact on customer stability. This paper provides implications for improving firms' social responsibility and stabilizing the supply chain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to explore the mediating role of corporate image between corporate social responsibility and marketing performance in the financial sector. Data were collected from 220 Ghanaian financial houses. Questionnaire for the data collection was based on measurement scale. Statistical values were derived to test the relationship between the three variables understudy. The effect of corporate image on marketing performance was found to be positive. Corporate image was also found to positively mediate the relationship between corporate social responsibility and marketing performance. Fostering corporate social responsibility and maintaining high corporate image will have a direct positive effect on marketing performance of financial houses. The paper thus contributes to marketing performance studies by extending the predictors of firm performance to test the mediating role of corporate image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is titled Corporate Advertising by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria. The paper seeks to examine how INEC, as a corporate organization, utilizes corporate advertising in the conduct of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria. The paper conceptualizes corporate advertising for clarity and a better understanding of the concept under review. Adopting the secondary method of data collection, the paper gathered relevant literature through books, journal articles, and the internet, among others. The study was anchored on the structural functionalism theory, which sees a society as a whole in terms of the function of its constituent elements, namely norms, customs, traditions, and institutions. INEC, as one of the institutions in our society, is saddled with the responsibility of conducting a free, fair, credible, and peaceful election that will produce credible, promising, and good leaders for the good of the society as a whole. The study also established that INEC engages in corporate advertising to promote its causes, raise awareness about its mission and programs, attract support and voter participation, and generate public interest and engagement. The study, therefore, concluded that the effect of advertising on corporate image is extremely vital for any organization. This is due to the fact that it stimulates consumer demand for their products or services, which eventually leads to an increase in sales or patronage levels, resulting in a high profit or a good reputation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Food matters in the public daily lives; it is both practically and theoretically imperative to enhance the governance of food safety risks. In this paper, a three-tier supply chain model involving government regulatory authorities, food producers, and customers is established for designing a risk governance mechanism of food safety based on a reputation updating model. Meanwhile, the study also explores the in fluence of reputation on product quality and sales price for food producers, as well as the accuracy in testing product quality of government and the effectiveness of governmental regulations. The results show that product price is positively correlated with reputation and negatively related to the government's rewards and punishments. When the government improves the accuracy of food sample testing and enhances rewards and strengthens punishments for food producers, product quality can be effectively controlled, sales prices can be balanced, and producer's profits can be improved. Finally, this paper provides insight into the risk governance of food safety through many observations. It is found that it is a relatively slow process for producers to improve their company's reputation by improving its product quality. Still, issues with food quality and safety afford a devastating blow to the company's reputation once this information is released. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In modern social APP interface design, how to effectively improve the corporate image and create the connotation of corporate culture is a significant key problem. With the emergence of APP, a growing number of people use them, increasing communication energy usage and slowing network operation. To improve app compatibility and speed, it is necessary to combine it with the most advanced and dependable technology, such as ZigBee, which is regarded as the best solution for wireless sensor networks. The ZigBee protocol is primarily used to incorporate working and data transmission in wireless sensor networks that are based on ZigBee technology. As a result, incorporating ZigBee technology into APP interface design in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain can significantly improve brand APP interface design's network operation efficiency. This paper presents a novel approach to enhance the performance and corporate image of brand mobile applications (APPs) by integrating ZigBee technology. The primary objective is to improve the operating efficiency and user experience of the brand APPs. The study involves a comparison between 10 brand APPs that have not integrated ZigBee technology and 10 brand APPs that have adopted ZigBee technology. The experimental results indicate that the operating efficiency of the brand APPs incorporating ZigBee technology is 97%, while the efficiency of the brand APPs without ZigBee technology is 85%, resulting in a notable difference of 12%. To assess the effectiveness of ZigBee technology integration, the study conducted experiments with 100 users, randomly assigned to interact with both types of brand APPs. The user feedback and observations revealed that brand APPs integrated with ZigBee technology exhibit significantly higher operating efficiency, contributing to a 12% improvement over their counterparts lacking ZigBee integration. Moreover, 90 out of 100 users reported a preference for the brand APPs integrated with ZigBee technology due to their superior user experience. The integration of ZigBee technology in brand APPs not only enhances the user experience but also contributes to the improvement of the company's corporate image. Adopting ZigBee technology in brand APPs is a valuable strategy that can facilitate the long-term development and success of the company. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Poverty remains the biggest challenge facing the world today. In 2016, the Chinese government launched a national campaign to eradicate poverty by 2020, among which Chinese listed companies have made significant contributions to. This paper focuses on the targeted poverty alleviation (TPA) and investigates the relationship between corporate participation in TPA and its corporate value. As compared to firm's own corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, participating in government-initiated CSR activities can better enhance corporate value. This is especially so when firms engage in penetrative "integrated poverty alleviation" rather than the direct approach of "donative poverty alleviation". This paper adopts the Mediating Effect Model to explain the relationship between corporate participation in TPA and their corporate value, with the shareholding ratio of institutional investors, government subsidies and corporate reputation as mediating factors. Findings suggest that corporations' active implementation of TPA actions can increase the shareholding ratio of institutional investors and government subsidies and improve corporate reputation, thereby significantly increasing their corporate value. However, the impact of participation in TPA on corporate value is limited by factors including the nature of property rights, the intensity of competition in the industry and the degree of marketization. The impact is generally more significant in state-owned enterprises, areas with lesser industry competition and higher marketization. This study provides a fresh perspective for theories related to CSR, poverty eradication and corporate value of listed companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]