Purpose – The purpose of this article is to establish a strategic management framework that supports the integration of corporate social responsibility principles and stakeholder approaches into mainstream business strategy. Design/methodology/approach – A top‐down and bottom‐up approach...

Purpose – The strategic management of corporate sustainability tends to be approached from one theoretical perspective in academic research and publications in mainstream journals simultaneously. In corporate practice, however, a sustainability issue has different dimensions that cannot be...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the strategic implications of stakeholder engagement in emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach – The author examines a range of current theories that address the question of “why corporate morality pays”, most notably instrumental stakeholder...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a detailed review of how to design and test a framework for assessing the impact of corporate responsibility on firm value. Design/methodology/approach – Building on an earlier conceptual framework, this paper describes the testing of the...

Purpose – The pressure on companies to position themselves as responsible corporate citizens has been identified as a key driver of the increase in collaborative relationships between corporations and non‐profit organizations, with innovation and learning recognized as benefits to the firms...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to present how innovations in the social action program of a Spanish savings bank produce strategic changes in the organization. Design/methodology/approach – The paper follows a historical approach, first studying Spanish savings banks in general and...

Purpose – In the research project “Good practices of stakeholder view” three firms in the Swiss telecommunications industry were analysed in order to compare their stakeholder involvement. This paper seeks to illustrate how these three firms, namely Swisscom, Sunrise, and Orange, dealt...

Purpose – This paper aims to offer the Italian Banking Association's view on corporate social responsibility (CSR) as the strategic management of a firm that is multistakeholder‐oriented and that is careful to produce value for all those with whom the firm has relationships and daily...

Purpose – Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are often neglected in the context of business and society theory building. The purpose of this article is to build a model of why SMEs address social issues by integrating internal and external drivers and barriers to social performance (SP)....

Purpose – The corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement has gathered great momentum over the past number of years and is now regarded as being at its most prevalent. However, there has been a lack of attention to, and discussion of, CSR in Ireland and in relation to small and...