Economics (Business Environment)

Objectification is the act of treating a person solely as an object of sexual desire. Sexual objectification is one of the biggest reasons why we live in a world flooded with sexualized images of women who are presented to be immaculate goddesses, which every girl aspires to emulate leading to mental health issues, loss of self-esteem, exploitation and harassment. Sexual objectification constitutes of two dimensions within itself, firstly, treating women as mere objects and secondly, dehumanizing, i.e. when women are considered to be mindless entities and their internal virtues are completely forgotten about. The current legal frameworks around the world take a limited view of the problem and deal with certain aspects of the problem while ignoring others. This study tries to holistically analyse the problems from a victim standpoint and does a cross cultural analysis with a special focus on laws in India and a brief overview about the laws in other countries like Belgium, France, Fi...

This article adds to the international business and corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature by investigating the impact of foreign ownership on the CSR expenditures of firms in a host country, within an emerging market context. Previous studies have examined the relationship between ownership structure and CSR engagement, primarily for the case of developed nations. This article explores the linkages between the CSR spending of foreign-owned firms in relation to their domestic counterparts for the Indian context. India provides a unique case because of the landmark legislation undertaken in 2014 that mandated CSR spending for firms based in India. This study examines the motivations that guide the CSR strategies of foreign firms in host nations and attempts to explain the usage of CSR spending as a tool to overcome Liability of Foreignness and achieve legitimacy using the neo-institutional theory. Within this unique setting, a sample of 3591 firm years in India for 2014–201...