Are Founders More Socially Responsible? -An Empirical Research on Private Listed Companies in China

Personal factors such as the founder's values and psychological characteristics will influence founder's vision, his perception and interpretation of the decision-making environment, and his strategic choice and decision-making. Based on the theory of entrepreneurial characteristics, combined with the founder's unique psychological characteristics, this paper takes Chinese private listed companies between 2010 and 2018 as a research sample to study the effect of the founder of private enterprises on corporate social responsibility. Furthermore, this study analyzes the impact of different management roles of the founder on corporate social responsibility. We demonstrate that the private enterprises have better social responsibility performance when there are founders; the founders have different management roles, and their corporate social responsibility performance has certain differences, and the higher the management level of the founders, the better the corporate social responsibility performance. This paper studies the issue of corporate social responsibility from the perspective of the characteristics of founders, which expands the current framework of corporate social responsibility research and provides an empirical basis for founders to effectively participate in corporate management in practice.

Corneal stem cell grafting after chemical injury

PURPOSE

To evaluate the clinical and histological outcome after corneal stem cell grafting in unilateral chemical burns in eight consecutive patients.

METHODS

The visual performance and degree of irritation were evaluated following autologous corneal stem cell grafting. Scar tissue overlying the injured corneas as well as two corneal buttons obtained at penetrating graft performed a year or more after the stem cell graft were evaluated histologically.

RESULTS

Seven of the 8 grafted eyes obtained useful vision postoperatively. Two of these eyes had undergone a penetrating graft following initial surgery. The chronic irritation before surgery was significantly reduced. In one eye a penetrating graft was opacified due to a late developing scar entropion.

CONCLUSIONS

Autologous corneal stem cell grafting proved successful in restoring vision and reduce irritation in unilateral chemical burns. Histological examination indicates that the conjunctival overgrowth is replaced by regular corneal epithelium.