The fashion industry is considered one of the most relevant industries worldwide. At the same time, however, it is repeatedly accused of irresponsible behavior toward the environment and society. For fashion brands who identify Generation Z as an attractive customer target group, the increasing...

In Zeiten, in denen die Konsumenten immer sensibler gegenüber der Umwelt und der Gesellschaft werden, gewinnt auch das Konzept der Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) immer mehr an Bedeutung. Dies geht mit verstärktem Wettbewerb einher, welcher Unternehmen auf Dauer dazu zwingt, sich von der...

Good corporate reputation is seen as one of the most valuable assets. It is believed to cause a multitude of favorable impacts within different stakeholder groups. As a consequence, a multitude of studies analyzed the relationship between corporate reputation and financial performance. However,...

Current literature argues that firms should have strong ties to customers to benefit from increased customer retention and loyalty. Strong ties, however, have also been shown to prevent innovation, suggesting that firms should also develop weak ties to other customer groups. This paper focuses...

This discussion paper examines the relationship between co-determination and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in German companies, thereby addressing two distinct literatures. On the one hand, most quantitative studies of co-determination focus on its economic impact, with relatively little...

Dieser Beitrag bestimmt den systematischen Ort der Zivilgesellschaft aus der Perspektive einer ökonomischen Theorie der Moral: Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen können als "Corporate Citizens" durch genuine Eigenbeiträge an einer gesellschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit zum wechselseitigen...

How do barely incentivized norms impact incentive-rich environments? We take social enterprise legislation as a case in point. It establishes rules on behalf of constituencies that have no institutionalized means of enforcing them. By relying primarily on managers' other-regarding concerns...

We report our findings on cross-societal variations in values about CSR in senior executives from five economies. We find that executives in all five are concerned with the roles of their firms in society, with those in Japan most so and those in Hong Kong least so. However, executives in each...