This paper focuses on the issue of non-financial corporate reporting by the Czech chemical companies. Based on the content analysis of the websites and disclosures, it analyses, compares and evaluates the level of web communication of the economic, environmental and social issues of corporate...

In studying industrial sustainability programs, the authors developed a new method for evaluating sustainability practices and applied it to the examination of an array of firms in three industries: Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, and Foods using a rubric and rating scheme, reported at IBEC 2019 and...

Sustainability has evolved into one of the key topics for organizations and organizational researchers alike. To meet changing societal demands, organizations have to adapt their long-term strategies and incorporate environmental and social aspects into their product offerings and...

The shift away from fossil fuels needed to reduce CO2 emissions requires the use of renewable carbon and energy sources, including biomass in the bioeconomy. Already today, the bioeconomy has a significant share in the EU economy with traditionally bio-based sectors. For the future, the energy,...

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the effect of exchange rates on the stock prices of companies in the chemical industry listed on the stock exchanges in the Visegrad Four countries. The empirical analysis was performed from September 2003 to June 2016 on companies from the petrochemical and...

In der chemischen Produktion haben die Selbstorganisation der Beschäftigten und deren stetiger Erfahrungs- und Wissensaustausch weiterhin einen hohen Stellenwert, sowohl für die Anlagensicherheit als auch für die berufliche Handlungsfähigkeit der Fachkräfte. Er ist im Hinblick auf die...

Auf der Basis des Betriebsverfassungsgesetzes können Betriebsräte soziale, ökonomische und ökologische Themen verhandeln und damit einen betriebspolitischen Beitrag zur Nachhaltigkeit leisten. Diese Studie untersucht, welche Nachhaltigkeitsthemen dabei im Fokus stehen und auf welchen Wegen...

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted trade flows, causing a trade drop in 2020 that was especially sensitive for pharmaceutical and medical products necessary to ensure public health. The production of pharmaceutical products is dispersed in a framework of global value chains. This study aimed to...

Sustainability has evolved into one of the key topics for organizations and organizational researchers alike. To meet changing societal demands, organizations have to adapt their long-term strategies and incorporate environmental and social aspects into their product offerings and...

This study investigates the influence of personality characteristics and employees' motivation to learn on safety training transfer, in the context of a chemical manufacturing company. The study focuses on five personality characteristics: Locus of Control, Extraversion, Conscientiousness,...

This study investigated how interpretive schemes and their underlying logics affect the adoption of sustainable practices in two chemical road transportation companies. To analyze the conditions under which organizational practices are ceremonially or effectively adopted, it was assumed that the...

A toxic-free world is one of the goals of the European Green Deal and a key objective of the World Health Organization Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals. However, although use of some toxic chemicals is being banned, others continue to be developed. We consider...

The set of quantitative methods and techniques used to detect assignable variations in manufacturing processes are contained within a discipline classified as statistical process control. Such methods carry out precise evaluations on the general state of productive systems and carry out...

This study investigates the influence of personality characteristics and employees' motivation to learn on safety training transfer, in the context of a chemical manufacturing company. The study focuses on five personality characteristics: Locus of Control, Extraversion, Conscientiousness,...

Zur Erreichung der Klimaschutzziele ist der Einsatz von Wasserstoff aus heutiger Sicht unumgänglich. Zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt aber spielt Wasserstoff für die Direktnutzung sowie zur Weiterverarbeitung im Energiesystem noch kaum eine Rolle. CO2-freier Wasserstoff, der auf Basis erneuerbarer...

Extreme learning machine (ELM) allows for fast learning and better generalization performance than conventional gradient-based learning. However, the possible inclusion of non-optimal weight and bias due to random selection and the need for more hidden neurons adversely influence network...

An Economy progresses further when its citizens in any capacity add to the capital formation in terms of savings and investments. This is done with the help of mutual fund investors or through the retail investors. The retail Investors in India are very few as compared to the other investors who...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of corporation social performance (CSP) on corporate financial performance (CFP). This study uses return on assets (ROA) to measure corporate financial performance. This study uses KLD index and TRI index to measure corporate social...

Intro -- Simulation and Optimization in Process Engineering: The Benefit of Mathematical Methods in Applications of the Chemical In ... -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Prediction and correlation of physical properties including transport and interfacial...

The aim of conducting research is to explore the dynamic relation of working capital financing with respect to profitability of the firm & for that purpose data has been gathered from three different sectors i.e. chemical, cement & FMCG. For analyzing the results panel least square method has...

Supply Chain Management is described as designing, planning, execution, control and monitoring of flow of goods and services from the point of origination to the point of consumption. Supplier selection in supply chain management is a multi-criteria decision making problem which includes both...

Currently, the fastest growth of the chemical industry is, besides the Asian markets, expected in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland. However, the Polish chemical industry is facing several challenges such as high prices of raw materials, tougher environmental...

I compare the U.S. capacity expansion decisions of public and private producers of seven commodity chemicals from 1989-2006. I find that private firms invest differently than public firms. Private firms are more likely than public firms to increase capacity prior to a positive demand shock (an...