Do Board's Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy and Orientation Influence Environmental Sustainability Disclosure? UK Evidence

The environmental implications of corporate economic activities have led to growing demands for firms and their boards to adopt sustainable strategies and to disseminate more useful information about their activities and impacts on environment. This paper investigates the impact of board’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy and orientation on the quantity and quality of environmental sustainability disclosure in UK listed firms. We find that effective board CSR strategy and CSR-oriented directors have a positive and significant impact on the quality of environmental sustainability disclosure, but not on the quantity. Our findings also suggest that the existence of a CSR committee and issuance of a stand-alone CSR report are positively and significantly related to environmental sustainability disclosure. When we distinguish between firms with high and low environmental risk, we find that the board CSR/sustainability practices that affect the quantity (quality) of environmental sustainability disclosure appear to be driven more by highly (lowly) environmentally sensitive firms. These results suggest that the board CSR/sustainability practices play an important role in ensuring a firm’s legitimacy and accountability towards stakeholders. Our findings shed new light on this under-researched area and could be of interest to companies, policy-makers and other stakeholders

Green supply chain practices and environmental performance in Brazil: Survey, case studies, and implications for B2B

This article examines whether or not customers cooperate in organisations' environmental performance, in what circumstances it happens; and how customers can collaborate with organisations in order to they improve their environmental performance. This research uses both the Ecological Modernisation (EM) and the Resource Dependence Theory (RDT) to analyse the effects of external Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) practices, namely, ‘Cooperation with Customers’ (CC) and ‘Green Purchasing’ (GP) on the Environmental Performance (EP) of organisations. A multi-method research is used, combining a survey and multiple-case studies of Brazilian organisations. The main results and contributions of this research include: (a) the Brazilian setting, in the context of EM, provides incentives for adopting GSCM practices, especially CC practices; (b) Brazilian organisations depend more on customers than on suppliers to improve EP; and (c) an original matrix for a better understanding of the roles of suppliers and customers to achieve a better EP through a GSCM approach is proposed. This paper provides an extension to EM and RDT theories applied to green operations management by showing that external GSCM can improve EP and such process depends more on CC than GP. Implications for B2B are highlighted. © 2017 Elsevier Inc

Polypharmacotherapy and the QTc-Interval in clinical day to day work in psychiatry

Diese Dissertation hatte das Ziel, die Auswirkungen der Polypharmakotherapie auf das QTc-Intervall im klinischen Alltag zu analysieren.Im Rahmen einer retrospektiven statistischen Analyse wurden 200 Patientendaten der Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Technischen Universität ausgewertet. Die Korrelationsanalyse der Risikofaktoren im Bezug auf ein verlängertes QTc-Intervall ergab eine positive Korrelation für die Verordnung von einem oder mehreren QTc-Intervall beeinflussenden Medikamenten, Geschlecht, Alter, Raucherstatus, Medikamentenmissbrauch/-abhängigkeit und Herzfrequenz.This dissertation tried to show the effects of polypharmacotherapy to the QTc-Interval in a clinical day to day setting. We used the data of 200 patients for a retrospective statistical analysis of the Hospital for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the Technical University Munich. We could show a positive correlation for a prolongation of the QTc-Interval and the following factors: the prescription of one or more QTc medications, gender, age, smoking, abuse of medication and heart rate

TurboTech 1.1.1.20: Einsatz und vergleichende Ueberpruefung von instationaer messenden pneumatischen Miniatursonden in Verdichter- und Turbinenstufen

Experimental flow analysis in turbomachinery requires measuring techniques capable to determine the unsteady flow quantities as pressure and velocity. Pneumatic pressure probes are commonly used for determining steady flow quantities. For unsteady flow investigations a pneumatic resonant measuring system is used to transmit the unsteady pressure signals from the probes head to the pressure transducers mounted in or at the end of the probe shaft. Within the research work probes are built and tested. The results are verified by Laser-Doppler-Velocimetry. Final tests were carried out in a high temperature gas turbine. The report gives an analysis and a comparison of the measuring results on a strong theoretical background. The results are discussed and evaluated in detail. (orig.)Die Analyse der Stroemung in Turbomaschinen erfordert Messverfahren zur Messung auch der instationaeren Stroemungsgroessen, insbesondere von Druck und Geschwindigkeit. Im Rahmen des Vorhabens ist die Einsatzfaehigkeit eines pneumatisch resonanten Messverfahrens fuer instationaere Mehrlochsondenmessungen anhand von Referenzmessungen mittels Laser-Doppler-Anemometrie, einem prinzipiell anderen, beruehrungslosen Messverfahren, ueberprueft worden. Ferner sind Testmessungen im Rotornachlauf einer stationaeren Hochtemperatur-Gasturbine durchgefuehrt worden. Der Bericht enthaelt die grundlegenden theoretischen Zusammenhaenge bezueglich der eingesetzten Messverfahren und der Stroemungsphysik, eine Darstellung der im Rahmen der Messtechnikentwicklung durchgefuehrten Messungen sowie eine Analyse der erzielten Ergebnisse. (orig.)Available from FIZ Karlsruhe / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEBundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman

TurboTech 1.1.1.4: Entwicklung pneumatischer Miniatursonden fuer instationaere Stroemungsmessungen

Available from TIB Hannover: F95B2205+a / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEBundesministerium fuer Forschung und Technologie (BMFT), Bonn (Germany)DEGerman

TurboTech 1.1.1.5: Analyse der instationaeren Stroemung in Einzelgittern eines mehrstufigen Verdichters einer Hochtemperaturgasturbine mittels pneumatischer Miniatursonden

Available from TIB Hannover: F95B2204+a / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEBundesministerium fuer Forschung und Technologie (BMFT), Bonn (Germany)DEGerman