Innovation and sustainable development are major contemporary issues. Innovation represents an important tool for achieving corporate social responsibility while sustainable development is a challenge for business and emphasises the direction that innovation activities can take. The objective of...

In this paper I illustrate a simple informal model to explain how a firm or business organization in its efforts in conducting innovation, may affect the welfare of a stakeholder. In this simple model, time is partitioned into three periods and the business organization’s effort to innovate...

In this paper I consider a framework to analyse how a firm may engage with a stakeholder with regards to responsible business innovation. In this simple framework, I present how a weak and relatively powerless stakeholder and a more powerful firm interact with each other, given that the firm has...

In recent years, more and more companies, both small and large, have become aware of issues related to sustainable development. In spite of the significant presence of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Europe, few studies have examined the social responsibilities of SMEs. Corporate social...

The United Nations’ increasing involvement in global sustainability culminated in 2015 with the release of the 2030 Agenda. This agenda puts businesses in the spotlight, and their innovation and stakeholder partnering activities are portrayed as essential strategies for achieving an ambitious...

Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

The Resource-Based View (RBV) philosophy examines the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental Performance (EP). This paper addresses the lack of scholarly attention to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in managing Environmental Performance (EP) in Indian...