Effect of the one-child policy on influenza transmission in China: a stochastic transmission model

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Social Responsibility as a Factor of Convergence in Corporate Governance

For a long time, the corporate governance decisions and the connected disclosure activities were often direct to the satisfaction of shareholders’ expectations, sometimes with significant differences related to the characteristics of the stock markets and the composition of the corporate ownership. In the listed companies, this management orientation tended to generate divergences between insider and outsider corporate governance systems. The emergence of the concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and Stakeholder Relations Management involves modifications in the corporate governance approach, according with the philosophy of sustainable development as critical element for long-term success in global markets. This chapter aims to make some considerations when the CSR adoption and disclosure as element characterizing corporate culture represent a factor of convergence between insider and outsider corporate governance systems