The article examines the extent to which the most successful companies in Romania and Ghana - emerging countries - practice corporate social responsibility and the way CSR is communicated through the corporate websites and CSR/annual reports. The authors analysed whether CSR is integrated in the...

The financial crisis of 2008 and the resulting economic recession have cruelly exposed weaknesses in corporate oversight at all levels – organizational, sector, national, and international. Consequently stakeholders are now demanding higher standards of corporate oversight to provide them with...

Investors and companies are increasingly aware that climate change and its associated needs for reducing CO2 emissions are likely to impact structurally many areas of the economy. This paper offers a contribution to understand these impacts on companies' strategy, by studying management systems....

Prior studies have found that foreign affiliates of multinational enterprises (MNEs) suffer from liability of foreignness (LOF). Foreign affiliates may be able to improve their social legitimacy and overcome LOF by demonstrating social commitment to host country constituents through corporate...

It is customary to consider SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) as a separate category of organisations when investigating and analysing business activities. Thus any organisation with less than 250 employees is considered to be an SME while an organisation with more than 250 employees...

There has been considerable debate about the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate governance and corporate and social performance but in recent years the term corporate social responsibility has gained prominence, both in business and in the press to such an...

This study examines whether shareholders are sensitive to corporations' environmental footprint. Specifically, we conduct an event study around the announcement of corporate news related to environment for all U.S. publicly-traded companies from 1980 to 2009. We find that companies that are...

The goal of this research is to identify determinants of internet Corporate Social Responsibility communication of 41 Belgian companies. Using a content analysis and scoring technique, this paper estimates the degree of website information disclosure of companies' involvement with corporate...

Identifying tools for improving financial performance and other dimensions of competitiveness has become increasingly important in our current turbulent global economy. Many studies have shown that corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities can be used as a tool to improve financial...

In this paper, we investigate whether superior performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced...