To highlight the strategic importance of CSR, this paper starts with a study of specialized literature in order to identify the role of these strategies in the creation and strengthening of sustainable business. Using Dunphy's model as a start point, we attempted to draft typologies for social...

This is an empirical study about the growth and development of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility in India. An attempt has been made to see how the culture and tradition of charity as well as corporate philanthropy in India has undergone changes over a period of time. It also...

The EU-financed European Corporate Sustainability Framework (ECSF) project is developing a multi-layer business framework with an analytical, contextual, situational and dynamic dimension to facilitate managing complexity and corporate change. It provides coherent sets of corporate institutional...

The measuring of CSR performance is high priority in the research agenda of academics. To this end, several methodological frameworks and approaches have been recommended. These frameworks can be divided in two categories: single indicators and composite indexes. This pluralism in the...

This study examines the linkage between corporate social responsibility and stock market returns in the USA, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Concentrating on corporate disclosure and corporate eco-efficiency, we find mostly mixed results by employing factor performance...

The empirical evidence documenting the association between a firm's level of corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) remains divided. This paper reinvestigates the CSP/CFP association using a more rigorous methodology whilst taking advantage of a superior...

The operationalisation of sustainability on the corporate level is recognised to be a management task and implies the choice and application of management tools. Although researchers have proposed a large number of sustainability management tools in the literature, little is known about their...

We examine the effect of mandatory corporate sustainability reporting (MCSR) on several measures of social responsibility using both country and firm-level data. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of MCSR laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business...

Using a unique data set, I study how stock markets react to positive and negative events concerned with a firm׳s corporate social responsibility (CSR). I show that investors respond strongly negatively to negative events and weakly negatively to positive events. I then show that investors do...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate sustainability represent the way companies achieve enhanced ethical standards and a balance of economic, environmental and social imperatives addressing the concerns and expectations of their stakeholders. Corporate governance reflects the way...