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Socially responsible firms are expected by European regulators to create shared value for their shareholders, their stakeholders and society. Yet how to generate profits while providing public good is still academically debated. This paper argues that corporate social responsibility encompasses...
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The growth of socially responsible investment on public financial markets has drawn considerable academic attention over the last decade. Discarding from previous literature, this paper sets up to analyze the Private Equity channel, which is shown to have the potentiality to foster sustainable...
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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 …, adopting responsive CSR practices significantly alters firms' innovation, such that CSR may create barriers to innovation …
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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 … theoretical predictions, large companies are not the only ones that can create value through innovation driven by strategic (and …
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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 …, adopting responsive CSR practices significantly alters firms' innovation, such that CSR may create barriers to innovation …
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This paper explores the relationship between different Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies and innovation … Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data and specific data collected on CSR clusters. We estimate Logit models to explain the … different types of innovation (product, process, organizational). In …
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innovation ? We find that corruption, functioning as a bribe tax, diminishes the probability of new product introduction. We use … firm and on the average quantity of bribe paid by firms. Controlling for innovation determinants, firm characteristics … and significant impact on product innovation. …
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One of the major challenges confronted by those in charge of technological innovation involves anticipating the value … potential market. Today, in many industrial sectors, the innovation boundaries have moved towards projects that are more and … build sustainable competitive advantages. The notion of Business Models, when applied to innovation, enables us to describe …
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Research states that the success of a specific innovation cannot be predicted. As a consequence, the value of such an … innovation can only be stated very late in the development process, or even in retrospect. Our empirical research shows that …
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This article describes, analyzes, and explains the emergence of partnerships between corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the ways in which corporations use such relationships as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. Economics concepts and the...
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