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How Managers Make Sense of CSR: The Impact of Eastern Philosophy in Japanese Owned Transnational Corporations
Problem structuring : on the nature of, and reaching agreement about, goals
In this paper, we raise issues about discovering and modelling purpose that, in our view, can often be missed within operational research practice. We suggest that, in problem solving, there is a danger of taking too little account of: the differences between espoused goals and goals-in-use; the potentially misleading nature of published goals; goals that express the need to avoid outcomesâânegative goalsâ; the meaning of goals in an action context rather than the semantics of goal statements; the dynamics and clarity implied by goal relationships; the potential that derives from multi-organisational settings where goals that express an outcome that can only be achieved collaboratively; stakeholder responses to expressed goalsâthat good solutions can be sabotaged by others; the fact that some goals are contextually important but not a focus for problem solving because they are ânot-our-core-goalsâ; and the need to design ambiguity of purpose in expressing goals systems. These issues are illustrated through a number of real case examples drawn from engineering, Police, NHS, a Research Institute, and a Utility company/Regulator setting
Do ESG Controversies Matter for Firm Value? Evidence from International Data
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