IOSR-JBM   Volume-7 ~ Issue-3 ~ Jan-Feb-2013

Abstract: In the context of Nigeria, the issue of Business social responsibility (BSR) has been highly relative issue to stakeholders. In this paper we present a proposed framework for examining the relationship between Trust of BSR and firms performance. However, virtually few studies have attempted to regards the relationship between trust of BSR and firms performance, even if any they consider it in the perspective of consumers/individuals. Hence this study intends to make new contribution to literature by proposed causal relationships between trust of BSR and firms performance in the perspective of organization.
Keywords: Business social responsibility (BSR), Trust of BSR, Firm performance, Nigeria.

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Abstract: This paper looks at the importance of corporate social responsibility and what corporate social responsibilities have implications on the credit rating of a particular organization. The study will be focusing on what credit ratings are and what determines them. This will largely be studied in context to the Pakistani organization, both the national Pakistani companies and multinationals which are operating in Pakistan.
Keywords: Credit Rating, Corporate Social Responsibility, Pakistan

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Abstract: This study aims to explore the investment understanding and to construct implementation the investment meaning to investment behavior, as well as to construct the model design of investor decisionmaking behavior in stock buying and selling for short-term investor in Surabaya. This study used a qualitative interpretive paradigm, with phenomenology deontology method. Behavioral finance theory perspective was used as a tool to analyze the results. The results showed that: (1) Compared with fundamental analysis and technical analysis, well emotions management based on age, gender, education and personality of investor/trader was central in determining the success, (2) Compared with other short term investor type, such as a swing trader, position trader and historical investors, the day traders have greatest psychological burden in decision to buy or to sell shares, (3) Short-term investors can manage emotions rightly to obtain greater benefit from short-term investments than long-term investments, (4) experience was the best teacher for trader journey. Traders who able to learn from experience would be better than the traders who understand the stock market science but lack of experience, because the decisions based on a combination of rational and intuitive.
Keywords: investor behavior, behavioral finance, qualitative, interpretive, phenomenology

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