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Social media become very important part of the life of many people. This paper reports on the state of time spent online and usage of social media by students. The purpose of this study was to investigate 1) the average assessment of the social media usage, 2) the frequency of the social media usage, and 3) the average rank for all drawbacks of social media usage based on users' time-spent on social media. A survey was administered to 197 students from Warsaw University of Life Sciences -- SGGW, Faculty of Economic Sciences in April 2017. Collected data were analyzed among three groups of respondents divided according to time that they spend on the Internet each day. Descriptive statistics and non-parametric method of the Kruskal-Wallis test for testing the variance used for comparing three groups. Based on these results, respondents that spent more than 4 hours per day on the Internet have a better understanding of the purposes and drawbacks of social media use. Conclusions and recommendations were made based on the results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to identify financial measures that are related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) involvement activities. The study concerns the food industry, in which clients, as well as stakeholders, increasingly appreciate socially responsible companies, which could be a crucial factor for future growth strategy. An analysis was made on a sample of 448 food companies from 50 countries in 2009–2020. As a financial measure for CSR assessment, we used profitability ratios, dividend payout ratio, price-to-earnings ratio and market capitalization. The results confirmed that CSR reporting was a crucial division that differentiated companies from the perspective of profitability, OE, market capitalization, and share price. The CSR practices that are realized and published in reports become an important signal for investors that the company has a good financial situation and is able to invest in CSR without reducing its performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to identify the most important social media purposes of usage by responding women's attitudes according to age and the economic stage of development of their respective country. Research was done through an online survey in 2017–2018 followed by an analyses of the results from eight countries: four countries that represent an emerging economy and four developed economies. Participants responded to questions concerning social technologies and their purposes of usage as well as resulting job opportunities. The conducted analysis of regarding Facebook as a platform resulted in the highest number of responses in the survey. In this paper, detailed results are presented including a comparative analysis between two groups of economies. Findings reveal that in both groups, the usage of Facebook in business is related mostly to a positive experience. The result showed that among women in emerging economies, social media were used more broadly, and from an age perspective, the results show that marketing is a key benefit emphasized among older respondents. The communication benefit of Facebook usage in business was noticed as a key factor by respondents in groups from both developed and emerging economies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]