The ongoing change in perception of business from a narrow view of profit making to a wider view of a more responsible and sustainable corporation is challenging global enterprises. The paper bases on the understanding that leadership is a key issue in making corporations more responsible. It...

Social enterprise is charity's web 2.0 - a would-be revolution as open to interpretation as a Rorschach blot. For social enterprise to be more than the latest passing fad in doing good, we need a rigorous re-assessment of the link between system dynamics and social institutions. To that end this...

The world of Global CSR is typified by transnational issues and crises that are a product of our historical maturation as individual country entities. Effective response to these global ethical, moral and physical problems requires the response by society's most socially, economically and...

It is argued that corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be a potent source of innovation and competitive advantage. Those firms typically investing in socially responsible practices, both in ways that solve pressing social issues and improve the firms' competitive edge using the same...

Trust, trustworthiness and ethical norms of reciprocity and cooperation have been receiving more and more attention in economic analysis. In particular, two concepts have been widely used in order to study the socio-economic effects of these factors: the concept of social capital (hereafter also...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is here defined as a multi-stakeholder model of corporate governance and fiduciary duties naturally emerging from a critical assessment of the incomplete contracts view of the firm based on concepts like as authority and residual rights of control. As far as...

Corporate social responsibility has increasingly become a strategic concept in business, with some organisations becoming deeply engrossed in the initiative, while to some it is another way of competing in highly aggressive markets. This paper raises questions about the misuse of this whole...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure has now become a key strategy issue for companies, thus raising the question of how CSR information impacts investor behaviour. This paper sets out to examine this topic using social reporting rankings generated by an independent body, the CFIE...

In this article, we examine issues with respect to the adoption of a voluntary code of conduct, addressing the social standards in the garment sector in Turkey. We try to shed some light on the following critical question: does the adoption of voluntary CoC cause the marginalization of the role...

Every conception of the Corporate Social Responsibility and of the optimal relationship between the interests of the shareholders and those of the other stakeholders implies and suggests a specific solution to the problem of limiting and controlling the discretionary power of managers. Stemming...