The phenomenon of corporations making donations to charities is a
well-known occurrence in society nowadays. There has been
substantial academic research exploring the reasons why
corporations engage in "Corporate Giving" and several
theories have been developed to find a correlation between the
financial amount distributed and the company's general
characteristics. However, there is hardly any research available on
corporate donating strategies. This books aims to fill this gap by
investigating the donating attributes of the business sector. The
analysis, based on research of 355 corporations from eighteen
different countries and ten different industries, gives an insight
into whether a corporation's industrial group and/or
nationality have an effect on the donating behaviour. This book is
especially useful for professionals in the Management Accounting as
well as Corporate Governance fields, as well as for anyone else who
has an interest in Corporate Giving.
C.F.M.(Elise) van Laarhoven, Master of Science in International Business, concentration Accounting. Studied at Maastricht University (NL) and Butler University (IN, USA). Finance Advisor at Royal Dutch Shell, The Hague. This thesis was supervised by dr. L.H.H Bollen, Thomas Thijssens and Professor dr. H.F.D. Hassink.
