Family businesses operating mainly in the informal economy in East Java, Indonesia, generally employ family members and neighbours. As part of a qualitative study on employer-employee relationships, we interviewed the owners of 37 of these family businesses (30 small and 7 medium) to investigate...

We extend prior literature by showing that societal trust is a significant determinant of corporate investment policy. Firms in countries with a higher level of societal trust are less prone to underinvestment. We posit that the association between trust and underinvestment relates to a...

CSR actions practiced by all the long-lived companies had a positive influence on forming social capital with primary stakeholders and securing legitimacy from secondary stakeholders, which in turn had a significant influence on maintaining survival. This paper explored how CSR affects...

Social considerations and potential for innovation in resource and technological exploitation processes have dominated traditional ideas of regional development. Similar to how regional economic progress is sometimes expressed in terms of job creation and rising property prices. An alternate...