This article examines how the international business (IB) literature has addressed social responsibility issues in the past 50 years, highlighting key developments and implications from a historical perspective. Specific attention is paid to the Journal of World Business (JWB), which has covered...

In this paper, we examine the welfare effect of CSR executed by high-productivity firms, and find that capturing more profits is a crucial driving force for firms to do CSR. Under free entry of low-productivity non-CSR firms, more high-productivity firms doing CSR, or CSR firms increasing the...