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The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/18584 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation. Author: Orij, René Pieter Title: Societal determinants of corporate social disclosures : an international comparative study Issue Date: 2012-03-14
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Accountability ......................................................................... 2, 16, 44, 52, 57, 66, 84, 96, 99, 159, 174 Accounting Definition of................................................................................................................................... 1 Research methodology .............................................................................................................. 41 Analysis of conflicts ............................................................................................................................ 47 Authority ranking ......................................................................................................103, 104, 137, 144 Code law .................................................................................................17, 30, 67, 92, 98, 113, 126, 135 French ..................................................................................................................126, 130, 146, 170 German .................................................................................................................98, 126, 130, 170 Nordic ...................................................................................................................98, 126, 130, 146 Common law.................................................. 17, 28, 31, 86, 91, 113, 126, 130, 135, 149, 154, 161, 177 Communitarianism.............................................................57, 61, 63, 67, 79, 80, 83, 99, 161, 174, 175 Community sharing .......................................................................................................................... 103 Confucianism........................................................................................................75, 104, 151, 165, 177 Contractarianism..............................................................................................................67, 86, 99, 161 Corporate governance .............................................. 16, 27, 28, 34, 86, 92, 98, 114, 131, 147, 159, 176 Correlations.................................................................................................................................117, 126 Culture .................................................................................................................................................. 74 National dimensions ..............................................................16, 18, 25, 31, 74, 89, 102, 131, 138 Data CSD ............................................................................................................................................ 114 Distribution of ........................................................................................................................... 118 Economic ................................................................................................................................... 115 Political....................................................................................................................................... 116 Social........................................................................................................................................... 116 Decision usefulness .....................................................................21, 31, 36, 44, 46, 52, 59, 65, 173, 174 Descriptive statistics ......................................................................................................................... 126 Economic consequences ..................................................................................................................... 47 Empiricism ........................................................................................................................................... 42 Employment Laws Index .................................................................................. 116, 126, 134, 140, 141 Environmental Performance Index.................................................. 107, 116, 126, 133, 140, 156, 167 Epistemology ............................................................................................................................4, 49, 180 Equality matching ............................................................................................................................. 103 Financial Accounting Research paradigm ............................................................................................................... 41, 51 Freedom Civil ........................................................................................................... 26, 77, 93, 105, 166, 178 Markets, of ....................................................... 84, 88, 116, 129, 130, 136, 144, 161, 168, 170, 176 Political......................................................................................................................26, 77, 95, 106 General Systems Theory......................................................................................................3, 54, 63, 80 Generic types of culture ............................................................................................................ 102, 104 Generic Types of Culture .................................................................................................................. 116 Heritage Foundation..................................................................................................................115, 130 Hypothesis Development of .......................................................................................................................... 97 Testing ........................................................................................................................................ 159
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Individualism ............................................................................32, 74, 76, 102, 116, 131, 132, 151, 177 Information perspective on decision usefulness............................................................................. 46 Institutional Theory ............................................................................................................................ 70 Institutions Economic ..................................................................................................................................... 72 Political......................................................................................................................................... 77 Social............................................................................................................................................. 74 International Accounting Standards Board ....................................................................................... 1 Legitimacy Gaining......................................................................................................................................... 69 Maintaining ................................................................................................................................. 69 Repairing ..................................................................................................................................... 69 Legitimacy Theory .....................................................................................................................3, 24, 69 Long-term orientation .................................................................................................................74, 116 Market-based research.................................................................................................................. 21, 44 Market Pricing ................................................................................................................................... 103 Masculinity ...................................................................................................................................74, 116 Measurement perspective on decision usefulness.................................................................... 45, 46 Neo-Classical Economic Theory ............................................................................................44, 52, 56 Ontology ..............................................................................................................................4, 49, 55, 173 Positive Accounting Theory .............................................................................................................. 12 Positivism ..................................................................................................................................42, 50, 56 Power distance........................................................................................................................32, 74, 116 Regression models .....................................................................................................................118, 144 Research methodology ....................................................................................................................... 41 Deductive..................................................................................................................................... 44 Hypothetico-deductive.............................................................................................................. 50 Inductive ...................................................................................................................................... 44 Research methods ..............................................................................................................................111 Research paradigm ....................................................................................................................... 42, 51 Research questions .......................................................................................................................... 3, 84 Secrecy ....................................................................................................................... 32, 75, 92, 102, 116 Sensitive industries, membership of......... 100, 107, 116, 123, 126, 131, 137, 143, 146, 163, 166, 178 Social accounting ............................................................................................................................. 1, 50 Socially responsible investments ...................................................................................................... 54 Social reality ..............................................................................................................51, 55, 64, 173, 180 Stakeholder Theory ......................................................................................................................... 3, 66 Stewardship ................................................................................................................................... 44, 66 Theoretical framework ....................................................................................................................... 63 Transparency...........................................................................................................................17, 75, 102 T-tests ...........................................................................................................................................117, 135 Uncertainty avoidance ....................................................................................................................... 32 Uncertainty Avoidance ................................................................................................................74, 116 User Utility ................................................................................................................................35, 53, 59 Verification principle .......................................................................................................................... 42
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Curriculum Vitae
René Orij is lecturer and researcher at the Centre for Business Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He teaches financial accounting, corporate finance, financial management and entrepreneurship. Before he came to work at Leiden University in 2004, he taught similar topics at Inholland University for Professional Education in Diemen, the Netherlands, from 2002. Between 1999 and 2002 René spent two and a half years in the development sector, first as a trainer and advisor on microfinance issues for SNV Netherlands Development Organisation at Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development in Dong Hoi, Quang Binh, Vietnam, and later for a short period as a financial advisor at Oxfam Novib in The Hague, the Netherlands. For the first seven years of his career, between 1992 and 1999, René was a credit risk manager at several divisions of Deutsche Bank group, first at Deutsche Centralbodencredit-AG in Cologne, Germany, then at Europäische Hypothekenbank S.A. in Luxemburg and finally at Deutsche Bank, Amsterdam Branch, the Netherlands. Between 1986 and 1992 René studied Business Economics at the University of Amsterdam, majoring in financial accounting and corporate finance. In 1992 he also spent a semester on the MBA programme of St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas. He received his secondary education at Han Fortmanncollege in Heerhugowaard, the Netherlands, from 1980 to 1986. René is internationally oriented, politically engaged and an active participant of university life as a member of the faculty council. He has a wife and three children. Castricum, January 2012.
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In the range of books published by the Meijers Research Institute and Graduate School of Leiden Law School, Leiden University, the following titles were published in 2010 and 2011: MI-179 M.B. Voulon, Automatisch contracteren, (diss. Leiden), Leiden: Leiden University Press 2010, ISBN 978 90 8728 098 7 MI-180 B.J. de Vos, Horizontale werking van grondrechten. Een kritiek, (diss. Leiden), Apeldoorn: Maklu 2010 MI-181 S. van Wingerden, D. Alberda, M. Moerings, B. Wartna & J. van Wilsem, Recidive en nazorg. Een onderzoek onder oud-bewoners van Exodus, DOOR, Moria & Ontmoeting, Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers 2010, ISBN 978 90 8974 316 9 MI-182 J. Vis, Ondernemend Waarderen : Waarderend Ondernemen. De subjectiviteit van het begrip economische waarde, (diss. Leiden), Apeldoorn: Maklu 2010, ISBN 987 90 466 0364 2 MI-183 J.M.J. van Rijn van Alkemade & J. Uzman (red.), Soevereiniteit of pluralisme? Nederland en Europa na het Lissabon-Urteil, Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers 2011, ISBN 978 90 5850 6375 MI-184 G.K. Schoep, C.P.M. Cleiren, J.P. van der Leun & P.M. Schuyt (red.), Vervlechting van domeinen. Opstellen aangeboden aan prof. mr. J.L. de Wijkerslooth, Deventer: Kluwer 2010, ISBN 978 90 1307 879 4 MI-185 Th. Doreleijers, J. ten Voorde & M. Moerings (red.), Strafrecht en Forensische Psychiatrie voor 16tot 23-jarigen, Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers 2010, ISBN 978 90 8974 356 5 MI-186 C. Jiménez Monroy, Legal and Institutional Aspects of Latin-American Space Cooperation AQUARELSat: The Water Monitoring Constellation, (diss. Leiden) Zutphen: Wöhrmann Print Service 2010, ISBN 978 90 8570 595 6 MI-187 M.A.H. van der Woude, Wetgeving in een Veiligheidscultuur, Totstandkoming van antiterrorismewetgeving in Nederland bezien vanuit maatschappelijke en (rechts)politieke context, (diss. Leiden), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers 2010, ISBN 978 90 8974 379 4 MI-188 A.G. Castermans, K.J.O. Jansen, M.W. Knigge, P. Memelink & J.H. Nieuwenhuis, 40 jaar practicum. Rondom onroerend goed, Deventer: Kluwer 2010, ISBN 978 90 13 08228 9 MI-189 M.R. Bruning, M.P. de Jong, T. Liefaard, P.M. Schuyt, J.E. Doek & T.A.H. Doreleijers, Wegwijs in het jeugdsanctierecht. Onderzoek naar het juridisch kader voor de zwaarste jeugdsancties in theorie en praktijk, Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers 2011, ISBN 978-90-5850-621-4 MI-190 J.P. van der Leun, E.R. Muller, N. van der Schee, P.M. Schuyt & M.A.H. van der Woude, De vogel vrij. Liber amicorum prof.dr.mr. Martin Moerings, Den Haag: Boom Lemma Uitgevers 2011, ISBN 978 90 5961 657 7 MI-191 M. den Heijer, Europe and Extraterritorial Asylum (diss. Leiden) 2011 MI-192 I. Ievdokymova, The EU-US SWIFT agreement: which Fate under the Lisbon Data Protection Framework?, Den Haag: Jongbloed 2011, ISBN 978 90 700 6253 8 MI-193 R.G. Louw, Het Nederlands hoger onderwijsrecht, Leiden: Leiden University Press 2011, ISBN 978 90 8728 132 8, eISBN 978 90 0060 050 8 MI-194 O.P. van Vliet, Convergence and Europeanisation. The Political Economy of Social and Labour Market Policies (diss. Leiden), Leiden: Leiden University Press 2011, ISBN 978 90 8728 145 8, e-ISBN 978 94 0060 063 8 MI-195 Y.M. van der Vlugt, De Nationale ombudsman en behoorlijk politieoptreden (diss. Leiden, Den Haag: Boom Lemma 2011, ISBN 978 90 5931 7 253 MI-196 D. Allewijn, Tussen partijen is in geschil... De bestuursrechter als geschilbeslechter, (diss. Leiden, Den Haag: Sdu uitgevers 2011, ISBN 978 90 12 38728 6 MI-197 M.L. Koemans, The war on antisocial behaviour. Rationales underlying antisocial behaviour policies. Comparing British and Dutch discourse analyses, (diss. Leiden), Amsterdam: Ponsen & Looijen 2011, ISBN 978 90 6464 501 3 MI-198 M. Hagens, Toezicht op menswaardige behandeling van gedetineerden in Europa. Een onderzoek naar de verhouding tussen het EHRM en het CPT bij de effectuering van het folterverbod, (diss. Leiden), Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers 2011, ISBN 978 90 585 0714 3 MI-199 G.O. Reerink, Toezicht Tenure security for Indonesia’s urban poor, A socio-legal study on land, decentralisation, and the rule of law in Bandung, (diss. Leiden), Leiden: Leiden University Press 2011, ISBN 978 90 8728 152 6, eISBN 978 94 0060 071 3 For the complete list of titles (in Dutch), see: www.law.leidenuniv.nl/onderzoek/publiceren
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