We argue that the language spoken by corporate decision makers influences their firms’ social responsibility and sustainability practices. Linguists suggest that obligatory future-time-reference (FTR) in a language reduces the psychological importance of the future. Prior research has shown...

We argue that the language spoken by corporate decision makers influences their firms’ social responsibility and sustainability practices. Linguists suggest that obligatory future-time-reference (FTR) in a language reduces the psychological importance of the future. Prior research has shown...

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate education supported corporate social responsibility campaigns from customers’ point of view. Within this scope, corporate social responsibility notion has been explained and especially education based social responsibility campaigns have been...

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives to financial incentives using an online real effort...

Many of the attributes that make a good "socially responsible" are credence attributes that cannot be learned by consumers either through search or experience. Consumers aggregate information about them from several channels (media, advertisement, NGOs, etc.). Since these sources may send...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar el fenómeno de la responsabilidad social corporativa (RSC) en el sector bancario español a través las memorias de responsabilidad social. Partiendo de la teorías de la legitimidad y de la teoría stakeholder se justifica el empleo de la RSC para...

The present paper examines how an innovating firm decides between two forms of voluntary agreements (VA) in a context, where a non-governmental organization (NGO) rather than a regulator watches over citizens' interests. The innovation generates profit and consumer surplus as well as...

This paper addresses the issues of social obligations that organizations have to society, starting from an analysis of the quadripartite model of corporate social responsibility described by Archie B. Carroll in 1979 and known by 1991 as the "pyramid of corporate social responsibility". The...

The paper tries to assess an exhaustive literature review about social responsibility, through examining two different analytical perspectives. Starting from the question: «What does characterize business/entrepreneurship?» we identify two schools of thought, the neoclassic one which sees in...

Recent years have witnessed a steady growth of the number of firms that report on social and environmental information in separate reports, usually according to international standards, like the Global Reporting Initiative. This process has become more important in Spain than in other European...