Corporate social responsibility is largely debated amongst management science and business ethics scholars, but only a few of consistent theoretical foundations have been provided for it. Typically these are suggested within the stakeholder approach to the theory of the firm, but the same...

It is the nature of powerful ideas that they can summarize a ground-breaking concept in a plain and simple message. In this sense, the concept of sustainability is a very powerful idea. However, although the sustainability debate has already brought about considerable conceptual progress, a...

Dieser Artikel formuliert drei Thesen: (1) Viele Projekte, mit denen Unternehmen ihre gesellschaftliche Verantwortung unter Beweis stellen wollen, tragen ungewollt dazu bei, die Akzeptanzkrise der Marktwirtschaft zu verschärfen, anstatt ihr entgegenzuwirken. Sie bedienen nämlich das populäre...

Purpose: The main goals of this paper are: (1) to analyse the concepts of sustainability, responsibility and ethics focusing on their links and differences, also to understand how companies move respectively in these field; (2) to understand how companies sometimes move away from the basic and...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a media company in possession of a good fortune (an audience, brand recognition and decent revenues), must (still) be in want of innovation.The pace of change in our industry means that even the biggest, most successful, companies need to continually...

This paper uses a controlled laboratory experiment to investigate the effect of wealth on individual social responsibility (ISR), defined as choosing a more socially responsible product if a cheaper alternative is available. We find that rich consumers are significantly less likely to engage in...

The bottom up pressure of "concerned" consumers and the rise of "socially responsible" products represents a new market mechanism to fight inequality and promote social inclusion. To analyse the new phenomenon of competition in corporate social responsibility (CSR) amid doubts on consumer tastes...

We investigate the relationship between consumers' income and socially responsible consumption that mitigates negative externalities. We conduct laboratory and online market experiments in which firms and consumers can exchange products that differ in the degree to which they diminish negative...

Fast network communication has been manifested in recent years as an indispensable result of constant network connectivity, a common characteristic of Generation C. Through this network communication, which is particularly popular on social networks, members of this generation share and seek...