Browsing Working Papers by Author "TZAVARA, Dionisia"

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    Title: Quality and Environmental Regulation: Verifying Compliance along the Supply Chain  Author(s): TZAVARA, Dionisia; HERITIER, Adrienne Date: 2010-03-01 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: Among the factors providing incentives to monitor the behaviour of input suppliers are the regulatory requirements to which downstream firms are subject. We develop a formal economic model to examine the relationship between ...
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    Title: Can the Threat of Costly Litigation be Incentive Enough for Companies to Engage in CSR?  Author(s): TZAVARA, Dionisia Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: In 1970 Milton Friedman wrote “[t]he social responsibility of business is to increase profits” (p. 122). Today there are voices advocating that engaging in CSR is in the direction of increasing profits. It is also argued ...
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    Title: Reconciling WTP to actual adoption of green energy tariffs: A diffusion model of an induced environmental market  Author(s): DIAZ-RAINEY, Ivan; TZAVARA, Dionisia Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: This paper develops a formal model that links the willingness to pay (WTP) literature with the established innovation diffusion literature. This concern arises from an attempt to reconcile the large disparities that have ...
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    Title: CSR as a signal to inform collective action  Author(s): TZAVARA, Dionisia Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: Collective action in the form of a boycott or a campaign or any other threat that affects the operations of a firm is considered an instrument in the hands of organizations and consumers to control firm behaviour and to ...