The linkage between corporate commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and investment performance has generated a substantial body of research outside the real estate sector. Nevertheless, the relationship between the environmental performance and financial performance of...

Family organizations encounter great difficulties to survive over time and frequently their life expectancy has been related with firm dimension (Galve and Salas, 2003). Also the family firms have great difficulties to maintain their family nature, the evolution of the family and of the firm...

In Zeiten, in denen die Konsumenten immer sensibler gegenüber der Umwelt und der Gesellschaft werden, gewinnt auch das Konzept der Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) immer mehr an Bedeutung. Dies geht mit verstärktem Wettbewerb einher, welcher Unternehmen auf Dauer dazu zwingt, sich von der...

Large retailers’ suppliers selection criteria are changing towards a greater attention to factors that can increase variety and differentiation of assortments. This paper aims to analyze the changes in which small and medium manufacturers are involved as retailers’ suppliers. A survey on a...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and describe the relation between knowledge and development in the new knowledge-based economy and to deduct the socio-economic basics of the public marketing strategies in this context. The particularity of this approach is due to the features of...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibilities and problems for Establishment of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the Arab countries. The paper explores the nature and concept of CSR, particularly the Arab initiatives. As well as studying the activation of the...

This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combines multiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral correlates. Standard survey questions eliciting ethical evaluations of actions in on-the-job...

In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir den Prozess der globalen Standardisierung von Massnahmen der Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Unter Rueckgriff auf Theorieansaetze des Neuen Soziologischen Institutionalismus unterscheiden wir hierbei zwischen der Breiten- und Tiefendimension von...

Marktarenen sind wesentliche Orte der subpolitischen Konfliktaustragung um die Durchsetzung universaler, menschenrechtlicher Normen auf transnationaler Ebene geworden. Der Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit Aushandlungsprozesse zwischen Unternehmen und unternehmenskritischen Kampagnen zur Etablierung...

Unternehmen sind immer haeufiger an grenzueberschreitenden Normsetzungs- und Normdurchsetzungsprozessen beteiligt. Die beiden Autoren untersuchen Bedingungen fuer das Auftreten privatwirtschaftlicher Governance-Beitraege und gehen der Frage nach, unter welchen Voraussetzungen sie wuenschbare...