The impact of smaller firm size on corporate social responsibility is ambiguous. Some contend that small businesses are socially responsible by nature, while others argue that a smaller firm size imposes barriers on small firms that constrain their ability to take responsible action. This paper...

Scholars in corporate sustainability have widely used negative examples of industrial accidents and poor (social and environmental) corporate performance to illustrate that companies have a significant impact on the alarming social and environmental developments. Besides, the extreme ecocentic...

Corporate reputation is the result of a signaling activity (Shapiro, 1983), based on available information about a firms’ actions (Fombrun & Shanley, 1990, p. 234). Reputation is also a yardstick of the firm’s relative standing (Shenkar & Yuchtman-Yaar, 1997), routinely used by both internal...

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to an instrumental argumentation of stakeholder theory by discussing stakeholder theory from a strategic perspective. Our analysis does not use moral or ethical arguments in order to provide a purely instrumental rationale for stakeholder management....

Organizations are exposed to increasing pressures from their constituents to integrate corporate social responsibility (CSR) principles into their ongoing business practices. But accepting new and potentially open-ended commitments is not a harmless exercise, and companies may well expose...

This paper focuses on the general concern that theories on the social responsibility of business have not much practical value. We discuss the central theses of mainstream themes in the business and society literature – corporate social responsibility, corporate social responsiveness, social...

The literature on strategic integration of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in business models is still underdeveloped. We therefore borrow from the theory on strategic management to organize this contribution according to the process of strategic management. After a review of the few...

The problem of opportunity discovery is central in the entrepreneurial activity. Cognitive limitations determine the search and the analysis of information, and as a consequence constrain the identification for opportunities. Moreover, typical personal characteristics – locus of control, need...

Background: Although mission statements are one of the most popular management instruments, little is known about the nature and direction of the presumed relationship between mission statements and organizational performance. In particular, empirical insights into the degree of mission...

Background <br>Despite the omnipresence of mission statements, studies indicate that creating an effective mission statement is extremely difficult. <br>Purposes <br>Given the increasing pressure on health care administrators to develop an effective mission statement, this article sought to devise a state...