Goering (2012) works on a bilateral monopoly with perfect marketing channel coordination to analyze the effects of corporate social responsibility. In contrast to him we solve the general framework of the model and get further interesting insights into a bilateral monopoly where firms are...

Type: Empirical.Research Question/Issue: This study examines whether the existence of a sustainability committee with independent directors facilitates the requirements of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index to include the company with the leading sustainability companies in the world.Research...

There is an increasing demand for socially responsible investment (SRI), and SRI screens are an important source of information for investors. Yet, little is known about the relationship between investors' attitudes, use of SRI screens, and actual SRI behavior. To examine this relationship, we...

This paper analyzes how social entrepreneurs evaluate social investors. Based on an experiment with 40 social entrepreneurs, we investigate how five attributes contribute to assessing the attractiveness of potential investors. The attributes cover supportive as well as oversight activities of...

This paper explains how the Ruggie's framework for corporate human rights performance may benefit from a relationship with the capability approach. The capability approach is found to fit nicely with both human rights and managerial perspectives. Among the many reciprocal contributions these...

During the past decade, Corporate Responsibility – the voluntary engagement of business for social and environmental ends above legally mandated minimum standards – has risen to prominence, if not pre-eminence in global economic governance. However, Corporate Responsibility is not uniformly...

Inspired by the LaPorta et al. (1997, 1998) work on comparative corporate governance, we tested the Matten & Moon (2008) framework to analyze differences in cross-national CSR performance. A model was built that questions whether different social, environmental and governance issues are more...

What drives European Union (EU) policy change in a sensitive and contentious area? To answer this question, this article tells the story of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the EU from its beginnings until the present. The EU's role in EU CSR has changed from social-liberal...

Using a quasi-natural experiment that mandates a subset of listed firms to issue corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports, this paper examines the effect of mandatory CSR disclosure on market information asymmetry in China, where we estimate information asymmetry using high frequency trade...

The current wave of land acquisitions in developing countries differs from past trends because of the speed and magnitude of FDI flows. The main risk is the insufficient legal protection of land users, especially women. Insecure property rights are also a significant risk factor for investors....