In leadership definitions, it is generally approved that superior personality traits are one of the factors which form successful leadership. Furthermore, individuals follow leaders consistently and choose leaders as their role models. In this context; the purpose of this study is to investigate...

Advisor: Susan Vowels April 23, 2007

It is believed that the critical next step from examinations of operations and the environment is the study of sustainability and supply chains (Linton, Klassen, and Jayaraman (2007)). Environmental quality and preservation as well as meeting the stress of emission reductions is rapidly becoming...

Over the study period of 1995 to 2006, performance disparities are reported between mutual funds engaged in socially responsible investing (SRI funds) and non-SRI funds. After introducing a social factor and firm specific risk variables, an extension to the Fama-French-Carhart four-factor model...