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A letter from Gerald F. Davis to Miss. Betty Robinton (December 7, 1982)
No full textA letter from Gerald F. Davis to Miss. Betty Robinton written on December 7, 1982. In the letter, Davis writes that thomas Bernard delivered him the "letters to Betty". He thanks her for being so thoughtful and sending them in
Letter from Gerald F. Davis to Dorotha Flaxington Whitman (September 13, 1985)
No full textA letter from Gerald F. Davis to Dorotha Flaxington Whitman written on September 13, 1985. In the letter, Davis writes how Dr. Bernard had forwarded the historical information regarding her father and how he enjoyed reading about him
Letter from Gerald F. Davis to Dorotha Flaxington Whitman (October 3, 1985)
No full textA letter from Gerald F. Davis to Dorotha Flaxington Whitman, dated October 3rd, 1985. Davis tells Whitman that additional materials (via Dr. Thomas Bernard) were added to the Archives. He also thanked her for bringing his attention to a difference in her brother and father names and assured her that the cataloger, Mr. Lin, corrected the error
Letter from Gerald Davis to Les Vipond regarding Sir George Williams wax cylinder recording
No full textThis letter is a response to a previous letter written by Les Vipond to the Springfield College librarian requesting information on the whereabouts and condition of the Sir George Williams wax cylinder recording, written in 1972. In the letter Davis indicates that the original wax cylinder is located in Springfield College's Babson Library in its original shipping carton and that it is in fair condition. Mr. Davis further explains to Mr. Vipond that the library possesses further documentation related to the recording and that he is enclosing some additional materials. In 1894, the YMCA Training School, now Springfield College, hosted a Jubilee Celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the YMCA. Sir George Williams wrote a letter to the Jubilee Class which he recorded on a wax cylinder that was sent to the Training School and played during the celebration
Letter from Dorotha Flaxington Whitman to Gerald F. Davis (September 24, 1985)
No full textA letter from Dorotha Flaxington Whitman to Gerald F. Davis, dated September 24th, 1985. In this letter, Whitman first thanks Davis for accepting the printed accounts of her father’s experiences serving as YMCA Overseas Secretary during World War 1. She also states her excitement about additional materials, such as letters from her father being added to the Archives through Dr. Thomas Bernard. She also informs that she identified a mistake Davis made in a previous letter. He referred to her father as “Mr. Ward A. Flexington” instead of W. Herbert Flaxington and hoped that the Archives would file his materials under his proper name
Copy of scenes on Thomas & Roberts' Plantation on the Daly River 2 miles above landing, tobacco, ca. 1912 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from accompanying information.; Part of the: Barclay-Macpherson expedition to the McArthur River and Gulf of Carpentaria regions, Northern Territory, 1911-12.; Condition: Good.; "Davis + Thomas, farm, Daly River"--Written on sleeve in black ink.; Copy of this can be found at as part of the collection: Souvenir of the visit of the Federal Parliamentary Party to the Northern Territory, April - May, 1912 ; PIC/7459/110 LOC Album 1017. ANL; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6156921
Political Agency and the Responsibility Paradox: Multinationals and Corporate Social Responsibility
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The Globalization of Stock Markets and Convergence in Corporate Governance
No full textThe international integration of financial markets is a central dy-namic of the globalization process and a potent force for driving changes in the institutions of corporate governance. During the late 1980s and 1990s, cross-border portfolio investment expanded dramatically. The number of regional and global investment funds focused on emerging markets increased from nine in 1986 to nearly 800 in 1995, and the combined assets of emerging market funds grew from 132 billion during this time (World Bank 1997: 16). Conversely, the number of foreign companies listed on the two major U.S. stock markets (Nas-daq and the New York Stock Exchange) increased from roughly 170 in 1990 to over 750 in 2000.1 There are now more non-U.S. companies traded on Nasdaq and NYSE than there are German corporations traded on the Deutsche Borse. Some theorists have taken these trends to indi-cate a coming convergence in the institutions of corporate governance around the world, at either the national or the firm level (see Davis and Useem 2001 for a review). At the national level, states may adapt their system of corporate governance to the American model in order to achieve the growth benefits of “shareholder capitalism ” (e.g., Levine and Zervos 1998). As Larry Summers put it, “Financial markets don’t just oil the wheels of economic growth—they are the wheels ” (Murray 1997). Thus, forty-three nations opened their first postwar local stock exchange during the 1980s and 1990s, often as a means to attract for-eign portfolio investment in local companies (Weber and Davis 2000). At the firm level, managers of companies seeking to attract equity in-vestors have strong incentives to follow the standards of American insti-tutional investors for appropriate governance structures. The ultimate impact, according to enthusiasts, will be the worldwide dominance of the American model of how to finance and govern a corporation. Discussions of the “American model ” portray it as a blueprint for an institutional matrix oriented toward dispersed investors, from the proper way to compose a board of directors to how to generate shareholder-friendly bodies of corporate and securities law (Easterbrook and Fische
The Responsibility Paradox: Multinational Firms and Global Corporate Social Responsibility
Get PDFThis paper examines the impact of multinational firms’ increasingly blurred geographical and institutional boundaries on the nature and definition of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It begins with a brief history of CSR, describes changes in the global corporation and the pressures impinging on it over the past 25 years, and analyzes the resulting mismatch between
the contemporary corporation and traditional concepts of CSR. It then dissects some of the
issues raised by this new concept of CSR, and speculates on future trajectories for CSR in
multinational corporations as globalization continues to exert pressure for convergence of national standards into a more universal definition of Global CSR.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/41221/1/1031.pd
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