act irresponsibly, corporate social responsibility (CSR) academic literature, especially stakeholder theory, pays little … attention to competition and market pressure. It only highlights the competitive advantage a CSR strategy represents for … companies. The purpose of this paper is to explore the connection between CSR and competition in order to contribute to the CSR …

absent from the academic literature on CSR. In this article, we propose to study a case over a long period of time, from 1954 …, social and environmental), well before the ’invention’of CSR. …

Social Responsibility (CSR). We develop a model of duopoly in a two‐country setting, in which firms choose the country of … location, the level of CSR and finally compete in the market à la Bertrand. We show that: i) at equilibrium the two firms … choose different levels of CSR, i.e. an "ethical" and a "neutral" firm coexist in the market; ii) regardless of its location …

Purpose this study focuses on the policy of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) launched in the chemical industry in …

-wide institutional frameworks and standards. They have responded to these challenges by developing corporate social responsibility (CSR … and standards, which we call ‘institutional expectations’. We examine a data set of international CSR-leading MOG … the field by mapping and identifying the main CSR institutional expectations in the MOG industries, identifying the …

aims at analysing the role large firms sustainable supply chain management plays on the SME suppliers' CSR strategies It … addresses the following question: to what extent are the SMEs influenced by their buyers' CSR requirements? In a developed … country such as France, large firms, even those proactive in CSR, have little influence on SMEs' CSR strategies. We highlight …