Being interested with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in particular Japanese culture, the author pursuits to examine to which issues and stakeholder Japanese business entity stand their CSR activities for. To answer these questions, this paper examines CSR reports of 6 Japanese...

Our current social, environmental, and economic systems are being confronted with global, interlinked problems such as environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and social inequalities and exclusion. Against this background, corporate responsibility (CR) and sustainability...

The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate different factors associated to the socially responsible processes of principal family business in Chile. The research was grounded on the Sustainable Family Business Theory and based in seven factors defined by The World Business Council...

This working paper is part of ongoing research on international comparison between European and Brazilian public policies for cross-sector and multi-actor social responsibility based on a concept of stakeholders' social responsibility as proposed by Ashley (2010). One of the propositions...

Based on arguments about long-term orientation and corporate reputation, we argue that family and founder firms differ from other firms with regard to corporate social responsibility. Using Bayesian analysis, we then show that family and founder ownership are associated with a lower level of...

Based on socioemotional wealth theory, we argue that family and founder firms differ from other firms with regard to corporate social responsibility concerns. We further argue that the ownership and management dimensions of founder firms have opposite effects. Using a dataset of large public US...

Socially responsible investment has evolved from being an approach that matches investments to ethical values to one that considers the impact of long-term changes in the business environment on companies and their share price. Thanks to their long-term horizon and asset size, pension funds are...

We examine the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the cost of equity capital for a large sample of U.S. firms. Using several approaches to estimate firms' ex ante cost of equity, we find that firms with better CSR rankings exhibit cheaper equity financing. In particular, our...

This exploratory study aims to identify CSR activities and address the perceptional gap between the health care organizations and its primary stakeholders in view to CSR as a promotional tool. During the past decade, health has achieved unprecedented prominence as a key driver of socioeconomic...

This paper empirically examines the effect of the inclusion in one of the most prominent sustainability stock indexes, namely the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World), on corporate financial performance. On the basis of panel data for European firms that were included in the Dow...