Many firms and organisations have embraced the longer view of their relationship and responsibility to the bottom-line, the environment, society, and their employees. Concurrently, standards for sustainability such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), the triple bottom line, and the triple...

The aim of this article is to develop a new classification of stakeholders based on the concept of corporate and social engagement. Engagement is analyzed as an organizational learning process between the managers of an organization and its stakeholders. It is a necessary condition to improve...

This paper explores the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and innovation and seeks to identify potential specificities related to small-sized companies. We analyze the complementarities between stakeholder and social capital theories on the one hand, and strategic...

Die Vitalitaet zukuenftiger CSR-Forschung haengt davon ab, ob es gelingt, ihren konzeptionellen Kern – die „business-society relations“ – wieder in den Mittelpunkt zu ruecken. Hierzu bedarf es der konzeptionellen (Re-)Integration der gesellschaftlichen Umwelt und der Mikro-Aktivitaeten,...

The globalization, the actual business environment’s competition and complexity requires continuous organizational adaptation to the new success generating principles. The social issues and implicitly the sustainability of the realized investments have rapidly become current interests of the...

Total quality management (TQM) ought to go beyond the traditional meaning of the quality of a product or service; it should include not only customer satisfaction, but also efficiency, productivity, quality of work life, commitment and loyalty within the organisation. It is also about more than...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is on the "hot list" of emerging social phenomena. This makes the question of the relationship between CSR and corporate staying power a key issue. There is a belief, and one that will be explored in this paper, that there is a positive link between social...

In response to the establishment of universally-accepted principles about sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporations are now producing Sustainability Reports (SRs). Corporations are expected to document their positive and negative impacts on society. However, the...

This article describes the results of a major study on the impact of codes of conduct and international framework agreements (IFAs) on social regulation at company level. The limits of labour legislation at the national, as well as the international, level provide a strong motivation for both...