Corporate giving in the health sector: a study on the Malaysian companies
Corporate giving represents the philanthropic activities that companies perform as voluntary initiatives. All over the world, companies are contributing in several sectors like health, sports, education and others. In many ways, these activities help in mitigating the social problems and meeting the...
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| author | Hossain , Dewan Mahboob Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura |
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| description | Corporate giving represents the philanthropic activities that companies perform as voluntary initiatives. All over the world, companies are contributing in several sectors like health, sports, education and others. In many ways, these activities help in mitigating the social problems and meeting the necessities. This research is based on this issues. The main objective of this research is to examine the nature of contribution of the Malaysian companies in the health sector. In order to achive this objective, the research conducted content analysis of the annual reports of 200 samples companies selected through random sampling. In most of the cases companies disclose their yearlong activities in the annual reports. from these reports the researchers identified the main activities that the companies have performed in order to help the health sector. |
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| spelling | iium-452232017-10-26T09:16:33Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/45223/ Corporate giving in the health sector: a study on the Malaysian companies Hossain , Dewan Mahboob Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura HM711 Groups and organizations HM826 Social institutions HV40 Social service. Social work. Charity organization and practice Corporate giving represents the philanthropic activities that companies perform as voluntary initiatives. All over the world, companies are contributing in several sectors like health, sports, education and others. In many ways, these activities help in mitigating the social problems and meeting the necessities. This research is based on this issues. The main objective of this research is to examine the nature of contribution of the Malaysian companies in the health sector. In order to achive this objective, the research conducted content analysis of the annual reports of 200 samples companies selected through random sampling. In most of the cases companies disclose their yearlong activities in the annual reports. from these reports the researchers identified the main activities that the companies have performed in order to help the health sector. medi+WORLD Internationa 2015-10 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45223/1/CORPORATE_GIVING_MALAYSIAN_COMPANIES.pdf Hossain , Dewan Mahboob and Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura (2015) Corporate giving in the health sector: a study on the Malaysian companies. Middle East Journal of Business, 10 (4). pp. 29-37. ISSN 1834-8777 http://www.mejb.com/upgrade_flash/home.htm |
| spellingShingle | HM711 Groups and organizations HM826 Social institutions HV40 Social service. Social work. Charity organization and practice Hossain , Dewan Mahboob Mohamad Diah, Nurazzura Corporate giving in the health sector: a study on the Malaysian companies |
| title | Corporate giving in the health sector: a study on the Malaysian companies |
| title_full | Corporate giving in the health sector: a study on the Malaysian companies |
| title_fullStr | Corporate giving in the health sector: a study on the Malaysian companies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Corporate giving in the health sector: a study on the Malaysian companies |
| title_short | Corporate giving in the health sector: a study on the Malaysian companies |
| title_sort | corporate giving in the health sector: a study on the malaysian companies |
| topic | HM711 Groups and organizations HM826 Social institutions HV40 Social service. Social work. Charity organization and practice |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/45223/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45223/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45223/1/CORPORATE_GIVING_MALAYSIAN_COMPANIES.pdf |