Are markets quite good vehicles for political objectives? For the promoters of political consumerism (on the demand side) and Corporate Social Responsibility (on the supply side), the answer is clearly positive: they take markets and politics as too separate universes and then propose politics...

This paper is a contribution to the analysis which criticises the weight of stakeholders to explain the development of Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives (CSR). We analyse the role of stakeholders to promote CSR in the automobile first tier suppliers. We study the impact of the clients,...

The aim of this article is to develop a better understanding of the institutional and organizational roots of Corporate Social Responsibility. In the first step, we seek to understand the origins of the widespread call for Corporate Social Responsibility. We distinguish an institutional call...

Corporate Social Responsibility is sometimes presented as an institutional form capable of producing a new form of regulation of financial capitalism. This article rejects that analysis. The two main forces exerting pressure on the firm, being ethical investment and responsible consumption, do...

The question of ethics has become central in multinational firms. Paradoxically, the ethical discourses developed by the globalized corporations appeared after the market has been introduced within these organizations in order to promote efficiency and competitiveness. If the reference to the...

Social capital and corporate social responsibility (CSR) have received increasing attention in research on the role that elements such as trust, trustworthiness and social norms of reciprocity and cooperation may have in promoting socio-economic development. Although social capital and CSR seem...

This paper analyzes how the interaction between green consumers and responsible firms affects the market equilibrium. The main result is that a higher responsibility by both producers and consumers can have different impacts on the efficiency of the firms’ abatement activity, depending on the...

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is now established as an integral part of corporate strategy and therefore as having an impact on the firm’s perennial life. In spite of the large diffusion of the CSR topic and the importance of SME in national markets, the main researches focus on...