A Resource based perspective on the link between CSR and organizational performance: Considering reputational capital as mediator

Corporate social responsibility is a widely discussed and very current research arena in the business world. The present study examines the effect of CSR on organizational performance from a resource based perspective. It elaborates how organizations being socially responsible can achieve financial gains for the company by generating intangible resources. Data was collected from 524 employees of manufacturing sector organizations through questionnaires. The results demonstrate that CSR is positively related to Organizational performance and reputational capital. The major contribution of study was to determine the mediating role of reputational capital  which was also found significant for the dependent variable. Implications of research shows that how CSR practices can be beneficial for the organizations and how by actively pursuing the CSR strategy can enhance corporate reputations  among all stakeholders which can lead to enhanced performance and hence provide competitive advantage

Forecasting MISO Electricity Prices: A Threshold Autoregressive Approach with Load Data

Electricity price dynamics for the Illinois market are examined by estimating eleven different threshold autoregressive models and comparing according to t and forecasting performance. The threshold is endogenous and depends on load data in three of the cases. A theoretical model demonstrates that supply constraints could explain price spikes and that prices would display less persistence in those cases. Estimation results confirm the presence of non-linearity in the evolution of prices. However, inclusion of the load data does not improve performance, which provides evidence against this hypothesis. The model where the threshold depends on the change in the past price is best

Forecasting MISO Electricity Prices: A Threshold Autoregressive Approach with Load Data

Electricity price dynamics for the Illinois market are examined by estimating eleven different threshold autoregressive models and comparing according to t and forecasting performance. The threshold is endogenous and depends on load data in three of the cases. A theoretical model demonstrates that supply constraints could explain price spikes and that prices would display less persistence in those cases. Estimation results confirm the presence of non-linearity in the evolution of prices. However, inclusion of the load data does not improve performance, which provides evidence against this hypothesis. The model where the threshold depends on the change in the past price is best

Relation between Environmental Accounting & Disclosure Practices and Corporate Performance Indicators: A Study of Selected Listed Banks of Bangladesh

The purpose of this paper is to examine the corporate performance indicators- age, size, EPS, NPAT, ROA, NAVPS influencing the level of environmental disclosure information from a sample of 15 Bangladeshi listed banks. Multiple regression analysis shows a negative and significant impact of age on environmental accounting disclosure practice. New banks tend to disclose more about environmental issues. However, profitability (measured by EPS, ROA, NPAT) and size (NAVPS) have no impact on the disclosure level. The study’s findings help understand Bangladeshi listed banks behavior in terms of environmental disclosure. Therefore, this study concludes that level of environmental accounting and disclosure is not significantly influenced by corporate performance indicators. Keywords: Environmental Accounting, Disclosure, Corporate Performance, Banks, Bangladesh. DOI: 10.7176/JESD/14-4-02 Publication date: February 28th 2023

Approaches of dengue control: vaccine strategies and future aspects

Dengue, caused by the dengue virus (DENV), affects millions of people worldwide every year. This virus has two distinct life cycles, one in the human and another in the mosquito, and both cycles are crucial to be controlled. To control the vector of DENV, the mosquito Aedes aegypti, scientists employed many techniques, which were later proved ineffective and harmful in many ways. Consequently, the attention shifted to the development of a vaccine; researchers have targeted the E protein, a surface protein of the virus and the NS1 protein, an extracellular protein. There are several types of vaccines developed so far, such as live attenuated vaccines, recombinant subunit vaccines, inactivated virus vaccines, viral vectored vaccines, DNA vaccines, and mRNA vaccines. Along with these, scientists are exploring new strategies of developing improved version of the vaccine by employing recombinant DNA plasmid against NS1 and also aiming to prevent the infection by blocking the DENV life cycle inside the mosquitoes. Here, we discussed the aspects of research in the field of vaccines until now and identified some prospects for future vaccine developments