Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) enjoys a large consensus and is frequently presented as a solution to conciliate finance and sustainable development. As proof of its success, most of its proponents point to the growth of the SRI market. The aim of this paper is to put this growth into...

In this paper, we use online search engines and archive collections to examine the popularity of socially responsible investing (SRI) in newspapers and academic journals. A simple content analysis suggests that most of the papers on SRI focus on financial performance. This profusion of research...

Der Weltverband der Spielzeugindustrie hat sich bereits 1995 einen Verhaltenskodex zur Sicherung der Arbeitsbedingungen in China gegeben, dem jedoch jahrelang von den meisten relevanten Unternehmen wenig Beachtung geschenkt wurde. Seitdem er seit 2004 von den globalen Marktfuehrern aus Industrie...

Um Nachhaltigkeit zu lehren und zu lernen wird zunehmend nach innovativen Methoden gefragt. Systemaufstellungen stellen eine solche innovative Methode dar, um die Bedeutung von Nachhaltigkeit fuer Unternehmen sichtbar zu machen. Dieser Beitrag liefert erste Erkenntnisse zum Einsatz von...

Altruism and the ethical relationship to other people affect behaviour of subjects in economic environment. Economy tries to capture this behaviour, there are various models, but it hasn´t been successful in fi nding one model describing various types and cases of altruistic behaviour. Business...

In general, capitalist countries display sustained growth, dynamism and innovation, and a high adaptability in response to external shocks. Yet in the last twenty years discontent over the notorious drawbacks of capitalism – corporate frauds, corruption, abuses of market power – has grown...

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...

This paper aims to provide an insight on the CSR activities developed by top Romanian companies and to analyze whether some economic indexes as number of employees and turnover have a considerable impact on the decision of companies to involve in social responsible activities. The approach is...

Corporate Responsibility is a crucial concept in the pharmaceutical industry, especially for research-based pharmaceutical companies. Companies are faced with a tension between fulfilling normative expectations of solidarity and making profits under the pressure of competition. We argue that the...