In today’s competitive business environment, a company which understands thereasons why consumers chose to purchase their product or service instead of theircompetitors’ should be able to use these reasons to gain competitive advantage.As more consumers are becoming aware of social causes...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is where a firm apart from making profits, the firm contributes by doing social good as a part of responsibilities to the society and environment. The masked intention of CSR is being questioned whether is the organization practices CSR for promotion or...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is where a firm apart from making profits, the firm contributes by doing social good as a part of responsibilities to the society and environment. The masked intention of CSR is being questioned whether is the organization practices CSR for promotion or...

Unternehmen werden angehalten einen freiwilligen Beitrag zu leisten, im Sinne von ökologischer und sozialer Nachhaltigkeit. Demnach können soziale Missstände beseitigt und auf umweltschonende Maßnahmen im betrieblichen Kreislauf geachtet werden. Durch den stattfindenden Wertewandel der...

Purpose: To explore how corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be effectively built into firm strategy. Design/methodology/approach: By drawing upon classics work in the field, this paper first offers conceptual discussion and then systematically develops a means of incorporating CSR into...

Direct tests between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm performance (FP) have been argued to be a futile pursuit. Following this line of thinking, the present study sought to test an alternative model in understanding the CSR-FP relationship. Specifically, reputation and customer...

This thesis describes the construct of psychopathy and the study of psychopaths. It identifies that psychopaths have been studied extensively in their criminal manifestations but that there is a large and recognised gap in the literature and a stated need for the study of successful psychopaths...

Scholars have paid considerable attention to studying the relationship between corporate social

Boards of large UK companies are devoting more time to the governance of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This is in line with the Combined Code on Corporate Governance's requirement that boards set standards and values for companies and ensure they meet their social obligations. But is...

Abstract: While corporate social responsibility has gained considerable academic, corporate and media attention, is it actually becoming institutionalised as a legitimate part of business? This paper investigates the relationship between corporate social performance, reputation and conformity...