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The future of corporate citizenship: Towards a new theory of the firm as a political actor
No full textBusiness and Human Rights - The New Responsibilities of Corporations in a Globalizing World
No full textRecent progress in formulation design: stability, microstructure, and active delivery
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Biblioteche storiche di Palermo. Progetti di nuovi spazi per istituzioni antiche
No full textIl saggio affronta il tema del progetto del biblioteche esistenti: molto spesso ospitate in importanti edifici storici, oltre a qualificare lo spazio ed il servizio, il progetto è occasione per rigenerare parti di città ed organizzare lo spazio urbano. Il tema è stato oggetto di riflessione in Laboratori di laurea, con numerose applicazioni progettuali svolte nell’ambito della città di Palermo
The future of global corporate citizenship: towards a new theory of the firm as a political actor
No full textIn this chapter, Guido Palazzo and Andreas Georg Scherer point to future research directions on corporate citizenship. They outline topics that emerge from the discussions in the Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship and address some the open questions that are still to be solved. For example, the meaning and the limits of responsibility for the corporation, the questions evolving around a new concept of corporate politics, or the self-regulation of the corporation as seen in the debate on 'governance without government' are considered. Further, the future debate on corporate citizenship needs to address the role of leadership in this context, as well as the question of the dark sides of responsibility. In this chapter, the authors summarize new challenges and point to interesting directions for future research on global corporate citizenship
Corporate citizenship in a globalized world: introduction to the Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship
No full textThe Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship identifies and fosters key interdisciplinary research on corporate citizenship and provides a framework for academic debate on corporate responsibility in a global society. Leading academics have been invited from various disciplines such as management studies, economics, sociology, legal studies and political science to evaluate the concept of corporate citizenship and to analyze the role of private business in global governance and the production of global public goods. In this chapter, Andreas Georg Scherer and Guido Palazzo briefly discuss the role of the business firm in a globalized world and point to corporate citizenship as a global challenge. Additionally, the chapter provides an overview of the content of the Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship and offers a short summary of each chapter
Study of the possibility of obtaining an antiwear material by electrocodeposition of PTFE with a metallic matrix
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Characteristic length and curvature of the AOT/brine/squalane “sponge” L3 phases
No full textThe effect of salinity (NaCl concentration) was determined at 25 °C for systems composed of sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate (AOT) and equal volumes of squalane and brine. At all the NaCl concentrations the samples are triphasic with an upper phase made of pure squalane while brine is present in two other phases. At NaCl concentration (in brine) below 1.6 %w/v there is the coexistence of lamellar and sponge (L3) phases. Loading with NaCl above 1.6 %w/v one observes the coexistence of L3 and pure brine. The amount of AOT dissolved in the AOT bilayer has been quantified by thermogravimetric analysis. At salinity above 2 %w/v of NaCl in brine, the AOT sponge phase shrinks expelling brine and the squalane whose presence in the bilayer becomes negligible. The L3 phases have been further characterized by SAXS and diffusion-NMR. The measured self-diffusion coefficients of water and AOT are essentially coincident with those measured at the same salinity in the absence of squalane. The SAXS curves of sponge phases have been fitted to a single equation accounting for the contributions of the bilayer structure and of the large-scale interactions allowing the determination of the average interpore separation D∗ and the bilayer correlation length ξ. The correlation length has been interpreted as reflecting static randomness of connected bilayer instead of the dynamic thermal undulations. Considering the correlation length as the displacement along the bilayer surface subtending a critical angular change (θ∗) below which the surface appears as flat, permits to define the curvature (H) as |H| [Formula presented]. The correlation length scales linearly with the square of the bilayer volume fraction as proposed by a previous theoretical model assuming the sponge phases are thermodynamically constrained to a curvature that equals the spontaneous curvature
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