This paper explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation from a firm strategic … perspective. Matching Community Innovation Survey data with specific data collected about the CSR behaviour of Luxembourg firms …, the authors identify two types of firms (strategic versus responsive) that differ in the intensity of their CSR adoption …

This paper explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation from a firm strategic … perspective. Matching Community Innovation Survey data with specific data collected about the CSR behaviour of Luxembourg firms …, the authors identify two types of firms (strategic versus responsive) that differ in the intensity of their CSR adoption …

concerned. Cluster 1 firms adopted CSR practices to achieve economic goals without resorting to the formalization of these … practices. In contrast, cluster 2 firms "learn CSR by doing" and by establishing CSR procedures and tools. Then  we match … different types of innovation (product, process, organizational). In comparison with the firms which don't adopt CSR, firms in Cluster …

This paper explores the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and innovation and seeks to identify … whether and how CSR practices can lead to technological innovation. Seven French case studies show that, contrary to … formal) CSR. Indeed, small companies can also introduce radical innovation based on their CSR involvement. …

R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … perspective explaining the legacy of the past in today's choices. In the second part, we illustrate China's catching up strategy …

rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a …

The chapter describe the global value chain of China made jeans trousers. It shows the relation between the different …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple model that …, China) in fall 2008. We first use a discrete-time proportional hazard model to estimate the determinants of migration …

This paper analyses the expansion of China's clothing industry in world textile value chains. Using data from … interviews and observations throughout factory visits in China and other countries we show how private Guangdong entrepreneurs … started China's clothing manufacturing. Lacking experience in consumer markets and designing, original equipment manufacturing …