Purpose – This submission aims to set out a new conception of value creation. In examining the impact of the downturn on notions of business success, and contemplating potential scenarios for new measures of corporate value, it is proposed to examine the implications for business in adapting...

Purpose – This paper aims to reconsider “the crisis” in terms of a failure in dominant economic thinking and to discuss the repercussions for corporate governance. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides a rational narrative deconstruction of the crisis. Findings – The paper...

Purpose – The payment of taxes is both a crucial corporate contribution to society and essential to good governance; but it is an under‐researched aspect of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Hence this paper first seeks to examine whether companies that engage in tax avoidance through...

Purpose – This paper seeks to look at “the crisis” in terms of a failure of corporate governance. Design/methodology/approach – The paper relies on data summarized from personal interviews with directors of financial institutions in the aftermath of September 2008. It takes an...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore how stakeholders are voluntarily granted influence in corporate decision making. Design/methodology/approach – The stakeholder governance practices of 46 companies were explored in a multiple comparative case analysis, drawing on publicly available...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the limits of stakeholder governance and to contribute a better comprehension of the relationships between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) through the development of a dynamic model that links...

Purpose – This paper seeks to understand what impact the current economic and financial crisis has had on the business and non‐business sector's corporate responsibility (CR) efforts, as well as to describe the critical obstacles being reported to such efforts. It proposes to do this by...

Purpose – The economic crisis has more than ever revealed the necessity for companies to extend their focus from the maximization of shareholder returns to the management of their complex stakeholder relationships including societal stakeholders. Although companies and scholars alike have been...

Purpose – This paper aims to show how instruments of empirical opinion research can help to provide a basis for interactive communication between a company and its stakeholders via the media, so that important issues can be identified and discussed internally and externally. By doing this, the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the interplay between national traditions and international influence on the CSR discourses and practices, in the context of two very different national contexts, namely France and Brazil. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based...