In a global, interdependent and constantly changing environment, not only products and services are competing, but also business models. Corporate success is not longer supported by traditional bases, and companies must get engaged in a process of permanent renewal of its strategy and offer new...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine three potential explanations for the corporate choice to disclose environmental capital spending amounts. Design/methodology/approach – Using archival data from a sample of Fortune 500 US firms operating in industries subject to both the...

With the constant increase of international capital enterprises in China's economic life -especially the occurrence of some international capital enterprises liability accident - the social responsibility of foreign capital enterprises has become a hot issue. For one element of corporate social...

This paper is the analysis of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of European multinational firms, focusing on the ability of large shareholders to delineate CSR policy. It bases on this analysis on the Dow Jones Sustainability STOXX Index as a measure of a firm's concern for...

Business response to societal obligations, either out of volition or by force of circumstances, is a long-standing practice in the Philippines. Interestingly, Filipino corporations tend to project their social obligations onto auxiliary associations. Filipino companies, for example, have long...

The desire to avoid rousing community hostility may encourage firms to behave in an environmentally responsible manner. Firms may engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) to maintain community support and/or to regain the support of a community where it has been lost. It has been...

This study examines the impact of managerial entrenchment on non-shareholding stakeholders. We find that managers tend to focus different levels of attention on specific non-shareholding stakeholders relative to their level of entrenchment. When managers have greater protection, they tend to...

Social issues in the supply chain are defined as product- or process-related aspects of operations that affect human safety, welfare and community development. Drawing from related literatures, basic constructs related to capabilities and risk are defined and used to underpin case research in...

Chinese manufacturing has recently been plagued by a raft of product safety problems such as melamine-tainted milk, lead-tainted toys, toxic toothpaste, defective tyres, and fake medicines. A probable cause of these incidents is a lack of business ethics in the suppliers concerned. In the...

This paper explores the financial performance of a mainstream socially responsible investment equity index in emerging markets: the Brazilian Corporate Sustainability Index. The results indicate that investors in emerging markets could accommodate their ethical values while at the same time not...