A critique of the neo-classical and, especially, stakeholding conceptions of the corporation in modern society. This essay is a new version of chapter 6 from Charles Blattberg, From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics: Putting Practice First (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

Purpose—Amidst burgeoning attention for global value chains (GVCs) in international business (IB), this paper identifies a clear “missing link” in this literature, and discusses implications for research and corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy-making and...

Agents are either guided directly by the elicited or communicated preferences of their principals, including both the conditions or states that their principals value and the particular actions the principals prefer that agents use to realize those states (goal priority), or can research clues...

Despite the increased interest in corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) management, which reflects social values within the business environment, discussions on ESG-related policies are limited in that they are overly focused on ESG reporting standardization.K-ESG should be...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important economic phenomenon with broad implications for .rms, employees, consumers, investors, governments and NGOs alike. This paper collects, structures and combines scattered pieces of economic theory and empirical evidence in novel ways that shed...

This study investigates the impact of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation (EO), customer orientation (CO) and on growth in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Austria and Hungary. Structural equation modeling revealed that financial resource availability is...

This study investigates the impact of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation (EO), customer orientation (CO) and on growth in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Austria and Hungary. Structural equation modeling revealed that financial resource availability is...

This study investigates the impact of financial resource availability on entrepreneurial orientation (EO), customer orientation (CO) and on growth in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Austria and Hungary. Structural equation modeling revealed that financial resource availability is...

This paper contributes to SME internationalization theory by offering region-specific propositions on early internationalization of Central and Eastern European (CEE) firms. We suggest that special treatment of international new ventures from CEE transition economies is justified due to...

The global economic recession from which we are just emerging, much as previous recessions, has highlighted failures in governance and failures in regulation. Indeed some have argued that the regulators are more guilty even than the perpetrators and should be sanctioned accordingly. There is of...