Corporate sector and companies have recognized the importance of implementation of strategy of corporate social responsibility in order to increase the company's image and responsibility towards society and the communities where they operate. Multinational companies in their everyday activities...

Locating substantial parts of the production process in developing and emerging economies, many firms face an increasing demand by stakeholders for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their value chains. Contractual incompleteness between firms and their suppliers at different stages of...

Bergbau, soziale Konflikte und Umweltkatastrophen - seit den 1990er Jahren erlebt Lateinamerika einen historischen Rohstoffboom. Welche Rolle spielen die Betreiber der Minen in den Abbauregionen? Wie schaffen sie Akzeptanz unter der lokalen Bevölkerung? Und welche politischen Auswirkungen zieht...

This paper aims to investigate the dependence and independence between the variables inferred in the bibliometric analysis of the literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR), business sustainability (BS), and integrated reporting (IR). In this paper, we undertook a bibliometric analysis...

Social responsibility is an irreplaceable concept in the modern global economic network. As the concept of social responsibility "matured" in business and science, an increasing number of investors have recognized the benefits of conducting socially and environmentally conscious business and are...

Nachhaltige Beschaffung: ein internationaler Vergleich -- Nachhaltigkeitsrisiken in der strategischen Beschaffung -- Die Rolle der Beschaffung für eine nachhaltige Digitalisierung -- Circular Procurement -- Umsetzung des Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetzes (LkSG).

This paper considers the distribution of responsibility for prevention of negative social or ecological effects of production and consumption. Responsibility is related to ability and ability depends on welfare. An increase in competition between Western companies depresses their profitability,...

Corporations discover that social responsibility pays off. However, sometimes doing what is ethical will prove costly to a company. The purpose of this article is to clarify this trade-off by developing an economic model that describes the choice between profits and principles. The model is used...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that there is a clear distinction between using public funds and non-public funds for development cooperation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes initiatives in development cooperation that the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) has...