This paper takes both a conceptual and an empirical approach to answer the question of how CSR can be connected to the company’s role as an agent of social value creation that operates within an imperfect institutional framework of market competition. To develop a functional design for an...

List of contributors Acknowledgement Aspects, determinants and outcomes of Corporate Social Action; Ronny Manos, Israel Drori PART I: REVIEW OF CSA AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE 1. Corporate social responsibility and financial performance; Dennis J. Aigner 2. Corporate social action in developing...