This article presents the beginnings of corporate social responsibility. In my opinion Andrew Carnegie is among the first ones who presented the difference between philanthropy and corporate social responsibility. From Andrew Carnegie and up to the present this concept went under different...

The Romanian banking system has to take over the entire social responsibility concept and unfortunately for the old way of making business in Romania, this concept has to become fundamental element in the re-launching and development of the Romanian economy and society. The Romanian banks have...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is becoming an ever more important component in the interaction between the business environment and the world in which companies operate. The term attracts interest from both people who apply it in their day-to-day activities and, also, from the academic...

The case for socially responsible business conduct is often made from an economical or ethical perspective with the organization as level of analysis. This paper focuses on the relationship between the religious belief of corporate decision-makers and socially responsible business conduct. Based...

The author examines the existence of unethical behaviour of the employees of financial institutions. This paper is based on studies carried out with the aid of the ‘mystery shopper’ method in Warsaw. Based on the survey, the author wanted to check whether a client is well informed about the...

This chapter summarizes recent research on the role of law, culture and corruption on venture capital (VC) fund structure, governance and performance. Evidence from studies that involve a multitude of countries is primarily considered. The evidence across most studies is broadly consistent with...

Caracterizada por una continua marginalidad y constante exclusión social,la sociedad colombiana ha tenido un crecimiento económico aislado delcrecimiento social, en donde el atributo social ha tenido eventos no deseablescomo el desplazamiento, la violencia, la marginalidad juvenil, la...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important economic phenomenon with broad implications for .rms, employees, consumers, investors, governments and NGOs alike. This paper collects, structures and combines scattered pieces of economic theory and empirical evidence in novel ways that shed...

This study investigates the impact of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation (EO), customer orientation (CO) and on growth in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Austria and Hungary. Structural equation modeling revealed that financial resource availability is...