This paper explores corporate social responsibility (CSR) within the franchising sector. More specifically, using regulation theory, stakeholder-agency theory, transaction cost analysis, and literature on plural form, along with an empirical study conducted on the franchising sector in the...

This paper gives an account of a study of the emergence of SRI in France. This research aims at understanding the process favouring the integration of SRI within financial market. We focus on the role of mutual funds. The interpretation is elaborated with legitimacy theory, more precisely with...

What is the impact of voluntary corporate environmental disclosures on the cost of equity? The present study will attempt to answer this question. The empirical research is based on companies listed in the French SBF 120 stock market index. In 2006, most of these companies devoted a section of...

In a recent contribution to this journal, Arjaliès (J Bus Ethics 92:57–78, 2010) suggests that the emergence of socially responsible investment (SRI) in France can be best described as a social movement with a collective identity that aimed to challenge the dominant logic of the financial...

The organizational literature on emerging industries has emphasized the need for institutional entrepreneurs - actors who give the new activity legitimacy and determine its patterns of behaviour. However, little empirical research has been carried out on the strategies that institutional...

This paper analyzes the reasons why some institutional entrepreneurship strategies failed to translate an institution while other succeeded, by paying a specific attention to the interaction between material and discursive dimensions in the translation process. A theoretical framework...

We identify three topics in the research area : the analyse of ethical funds performance, the use of corporate social disclosure and the analyse of psychological aspects of responsible investors. This survey shows the need of explaining the theoretical aspect of these studies because they are...

This paper proposes an alternative approach to corporate social disclosure analysis in order to link social information disclosed and corporate social performance. A survey of the literature dealing with description and explanation of corporate social disclosure practices underlines the...