Highlights •We examined the effects of exposure to live plants, views to nature and the colour green upon visual and verbal creativity in classroom settings. Participants completed a visual and verbal creativity task. Three groups were used; one group in a classroom surrounded my plants and view to natural settings, one with no views to nature but who completed the task on green paper, the third, with no plants present and no views to nature. Findings indicate visual creativity is increased by exposure to natural views, plants and the colour green. Findings indicate that access to natural views, plants and the colour green increase visual creativity, but have no impact on verbal creativity in classroom settings. The results suggest that creativity is domain specific and any practical measures taken to enhance creativity need to be aligned with the target domain. AbstractWe report upon a study concerned with the effect of exposure to live plants, views to nature and the colour green upon visual and verbal creativity. The study reported in this paper was undertaken with 108 business students at a British University who were randomly allocated to one of the three conditions. The control group were placed in a classroom with no plants present and blinds drawn to block view to natural settings, the first experimental group were placed in a classroom with no plants present, blinds drawn to block views to nature but completed the creativity tasks on green paper. The second experimental group were placed in the same room as the other groups, but were surrounded by live plants and had views to nature through the large classroom windows. All participants completed two creativity tasks; a visual creativity task and a verbal creativity task. Visual creativity was assessed using a modified version of Amabile's Consensual Assessment Technique (Amabile, 1982). Verbal creative was assessed using a modified scoring method of Guilford's alternative uses task developed by Silvia (2008). Findings indicate that access to natural views, plants and the colour green increase visual creativity, but have no impact on verbal creativity in classroom settings. The results suggest that creativity is domain specific and any practical measures taken to enhance creativity need to be aligned with the target domain.

business and human rights, corporate social responsibility, Global Compact, international human rights, regime theory, transnational corporations,

The goal of the present research is to examine the way in which organisational identity orientation and corporate social responsibility (CSR) interact to produce affective attachment and related beneficial behaviours among organisational members. Using a questionnaire, administered in Poland, we show that when CSR activity is viewed as authentic by employees, it leads to affective attachment to the organisation's CSR stance, while an instrumental evaluation is correlated with a negative attachment to the CSR stance. The results suggest that CSR motives are particularly important for organisations with relational and collectivistic identity orientations because of the focus of these organisations on mutual or collective good that can be demonstrated through CSR. The results contribute to social identity literature by establishing a clear relationship between the concepts of identity orientation and CSR and showing that only authentic CSR produces affective attachment and behaviours that benefit the organisation

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The recent financial crisis highlighted the importance of risk disclosures for investors and the wider society. We examined changes in risk disclosures in three UK-based construction companies before, during and after the financial crisis. The findings suggest that a crisis motivates a rise in the volume and quality of information provided by companies, while during periods of stability, companies generally provide less information and the quality of information is generic and repetitive in nature. Based on our research, a crisis enhances the overall volume of disclosures and this level of disclosure is maintained after the crisis, while any improvements in the quality of risk information are temporary