The concept of social entrepreneurship as a characterization of social responsibility forbusiness organizations has gained considerable popularity. There is growing belief ininternational development and donor communities that this form of for‐profit activitymight be the long‐sought panacea...

Deliberative processes such as stakeholder dialogues and multi-stakeholder forums are anorganizational form of the coordination and cooperation of individual and collective socialactors. This paper discusses a process of developing a Social Responsibility Standard within anetwork made up of...

This paper develops a theory of consumer boycotts. Some consumers care not only about the products they buy but also about whether the firm behaves ethically. Other consumers do not care about the behavior of the firm but yet may like to give the impression of being ethical consumers...

This paper argues that the perspective of ordonomic—a rational-choice based analysis of (interdependencies between) social structure and semantics—can provide new insights into the changing role of business in society. We claim (a) that the proper role of business is societal value creation,...

This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms productive characteristics influence managers attitudes towards their CSR rating, and whether their values in favour of CSR are positively...

The United Nations Global Compact (GC) is an international learning network thatlinks companies with United Nations agencies, labour and civil society. Neither aregulatory regime nor a voluntary code of industry conduct, it is a unique contribution to the process of global governance, where the...

The paper examines the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR)from the perspective of constitutional economics, focusing on the distinction betweena political community’s constitutional choice of the rules of the ‘‘marketgame,’’ and the market players’ sub-constitutional...

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turnof the 20th century. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set forthe early 1900s. These data are more representative of urban working households in Britainin the period than...

The notion of social entrepreneurship has gained increasing recognition in thelast years, both as an increasingly visible mode of economic action, and as animportant policy tool. The paper outlines a typology that departs from aSchumpeterian view of entrepreneurship, that centers on the creation...