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Author : Johan J. Graafland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Competition, Time Horizon and Corporate Social Performance written by Johan J. Graafland and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681231662
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Corporate Social Performance written by Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporatee Social Performance: Paradoxes- Pitfalls and Pathways to the Better World is authored by a range of international experts with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives and provides a collection of ideas, examples and solutions on CSP implementation and problems that occur in this area of consideration. The last decade had abundant corporate, national and international ethical and financial scandals and crises. After this epoch of moral catastrophes stakeholders expect that corporations which are considered as the most powerful institutions today and which have enormous impact on our planet’s ecosystems and social networks will take more active roles as citizens within society and in the fight against some of the most pressing problems in the world, such as poverty, environmental degradation, defending human rights, corruption, and pandemic diseases. Although Corporate Social Performance (CSP) has been a prominent concept in management literature and in the business world in recent years "it remains a fact that many business leaders still only pay lip service to CSR, or are merely reacting to peer pressure by introducing it into their organizations." (Bevan et al. 2004:4). So do really companies do “well” by doing “good” or maybe” companies engage in CSR in order to offset corporate social irresponsibility’? (Kotchen and Moony, 2012 p.4). I hope that we would agree that companies and CSR only by working together guarantee their own survival and we- the society and the planet -will be much obliged (Thomé, 2009 p. 3).
Author : Stuart Cooper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 135194844X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Corporate Social Performance: A Stakeholder Approach written by Stuart Cooper and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate social performance has come of age. In a business environment characterized by its perpetual state of flux, the ability to recognize and react to global forces becomes paramount. The fallout of such rapid change - the fast-paced developments in communications and technology, the continual change to global markets, shifting demographics, the homogenization of personal values - have all contributed to the widespread new interest in issues such as ecology and environment, human rights and diversity, health and well-being, and communities. All of these issues are now potential liabilities for companies, and are very much back on the agenda for business. Once regarded as peripheral management concerns, they are now recognized as hard to predict and hard for business to deal with when they go wrong. This book offers an insight into how corporate social performance can be measured and why this is an important aspect of corporate social responsibility. Using detailed case studies, it provides readers with the foundations for understanding and applying corporate social performance, providing a stakeholder framework by which corporate social performance can be measured, alongside a detailed consideration of the value of different stakeholder measures. The book also applies this framework to new social accounting standards, enabling the reader to consider the validity and appropriateness of these standards. The increasingly important role of the internet for corporate social reporting is also considered.
Author : Athanasios Chymis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Using Friedman to Understand the Relationship Between Market Competition and Corporate Social Performance written by Athanasios Chymis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Corporate Social Performance (CSP) literature focuses on the relationship between financial performance and social performance of firms. Although the literature recognizes a positive relationship between these two ideas, it is not clear what role competition plays, since there is confusion in the literature about the theoretical relationships among these factors. Competition is expected to be an important factor because Friedman's writings on corporate social responsibility stated that firms have only one social responsibility, and that responsibility is conditioned on the nature of competition in the industry. This research extends the CSP literature by examining how competition affects CSP. This study points out a reason for the confusion in the literature. It is that the CSP literature does not explicitly include in its theory and empirical analyses the role of incentives, as created by competition. Rather, CSP only takes into account the resources (i.e. financial performance) force, largely ignoring the role of competition as expressed by Friedman. Competition offers the incentives for firms to engage in social performance. Competition at the same time reduces profits depriving thus firms form the second major force, that is, necessary resources to invest in social performance. Thus, incentives and resources, as affected by competition, are limiting factors on each other. I suggest that the difference between Freidman and CSP lies on the grounds of mere definition. Friedman's major argument was to promote free and open competition abiding to the legal and ethical rules of the society. This argument escaped the attention of CSP literature and it is an argument that can be used to actually bridge CSP and Friedman. I propose that CSP and Friedman are not two competing theories but they need one another in order to create a better and more complete theory of CSP.
Author : Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681236400
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Corporate Social Performance written by Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch and published by IAP. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Social Performance – reflecting on the past and investing in the future is aimed at filling the fundamental gap that exists in our understanding of the drivers Corporate Social Performance, its evolution and relationships with the existing concepts and theories and the paradoxes that come from those connections. Moreover the volume aims at shedding the light on most important pitfalls that may occur while CSP application in business practice. The last but not least reason for its publishing is to show Corporate Social Performance as a significant pathway to the better world, that, as I hope, will be the inspiration for the readers. This book is authored by a range of international experts and scientists from all over the world with a diversity of professional and cultural backgrounds what hopefully will give the readers the opportunity to understand the CSP concept from different perspectives.
Author : Johan J. Graafland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100052325X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Corporate Social Responsibility and SMEs written by Johan J. Graafland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s people and their leaders face a complex and multifaceted set of ‘eco-social questions’. As the productivity of humanity increases, the negative external environmental effects of production and consumption patterns become increasingly problematic and threaten the human welfare. As the regulating power of national and international governments is limited, this challenge has generated a strong interest in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of companies. Firms find it increasingly important to meet the expectations of stakeholders with respect to the company’s contribution to profit, planet, and people. The primary aim of this book is to introduce the reader to the impacts and drivers of CSR, with a special focus on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Research into the social and environmental impacts of CSR is rare. This is a serious gap because if CSR were to fail to have favourable social and environmental impacts on society, the whole concept may become redundant. If societal impacts of CSR are substantial, it is important to know the drivers of CSR. This book considers (1) factors internal to the company, (2) the competitive environment of the company, (3) institutions external to the company, and (4) how the impacts of institutions are mediated or moderated by company internal factors. This book will fill this gap by estimating various types of models that integrate external and internal factors driving CSR and its impacts on environment, innovation, and reputation, making it a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and students in the fields of business management and CSR.
Author : Pedro Matos
Publisher : CFA Institute Research Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1944960988
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (449 download)
Download or read book ESG and Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World: A Critical Review written by Pedro Matos and published by CFA Institute Research Foundation. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey examines the vibrant academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing. While there is no consensus on the exact list of ESG issues, responsible investors increasingly assess stocks in their portfolios based on nonfinancial data on environmental impact (e.g., carbon emissions), social impact (e.g., employee satisfaction), and governance attributes (e.g., board structure). The objective is to reduce exposure to investments that pose greater ESG risks or to influence companies to become more sustainable. One active area of research at present involves assessing portfolio risk exposure to climate change. This literature review focuses on institutional investors, which have grown in importance such that they have now become the largest holders of shares in public companies globally. Historically, institutional investors tended to concentrate their ESG efforts mostly on corporate governance (the “G” in ESG). These efforts included seeking to eliminate provisions that restrict shareholder rights and enhance managerial power, such as staggered boards, supermajority rules, golden parachutes, and poison pills. Highlights from this section: · There is no consensus on the exact list of ESG issues and their materiality. · The ESG issue that gets the most attention from institutional investors is climate change, in particular their portfolio companies’ exposure to carbon risk and “stranded assets.” · Investors should be positioning themselves for increased regulation, with the regulatory agenda being more ambitious in the European Union than in the United States. Readers might come away from this survey skeptical about the potential for ESG investing to affect positive change. I prefer to characterize the current state of the literature as having a “healthy dose of skepticism,” with much more remaining to be explored. Here, I hope the reader comes away with a call to action. For the industry practitioner, I believe that the investment industry should strive to achieve positive societal goals. CFA Institute provides an exemplary case in its Future of Finance series (www.cfainstitute.org/research/future-finance). For the academic community, I suggest we ramp up research aimed at tackling some of the open questions around the pressing societal goals of ESG investing. I am optimistic that practitioners and academics will identify meaningful ways to better harness the power of global financial markets for addressing the pressing ESG issues facing our society.
Author : Alessia D'Amato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781600000003
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Business: A Guide to Their Leadership Tasks and Functions written by Alessia D'Amato and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Crane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000021238
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Corporate Social Responsibility written by Andrew Crane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a relatively young subject matter, corporate social responsibility has unsurprisingly developed and evolved in numerous ways since the first edition of this textbook was published. Retaining the features which made the first edition a top selling text in the field, the new edition continues to be the only textbook available which provides a ready-made, enhanced course pack for CSR classes. Authoritative editor introductions provide accessible entry points to the subjects covered - an approach which is particularly suited to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate teaching that emphasises a research-led approach. New case studies are integrated throughout the text to enable students to think and analyze the subject from every angle. The entire textbook reflects the global nature of CSR as a discipline and further pedagogical features include chapter learning outcomes; study questions; ‘challenges for practice’ boxes and additional ‘further reading’ features at the end of each chapter. This highly rated textbook now also benefits from a regularly updated companion website which features a brand new 'CSR Case Club' presenting students and lecturers with further case suggestions with which to enhance learning; lecture slides; updates from the popular Crane and Matten blog, links to further reading and career sites, YouTube clips and suggested answers to study questions. An Ivey CaseMate has also been created for this book at https://www.iveycases.com/CaseMateBookDetail.aspx?id=335.
Author : Lujie Chen
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
ISBN 13 : 9176859673
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Sustainability and company performance written by Lujie Chen and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation approaches the question of sustainability and its influence on company performance, with special focus on the manufacturing industry. In the contemporary production environment, manufacturing operations must take into account not only profit, but also environmental and social performance, in order to ensure the long-term development of the company. Companies have to decide whether they should allocate resources to environmental and social practices in order to improve their competitive advantage. Consequently, in decision-making processes concerning operations, it is important for companies to understand how to coordinate profit, people, and planet. The objective of this dissertation was to investigate the current situation regarding manufacturers’ sustainable initiatives, and to explore the relationship between these sustainable practices and companies’ performance, including financial performance, operational performance, innovation performance, environmental performance, and social performance. First of all, a structured literature review was conducted to identify sustainable factors considered to be important in the decision making of manufacturing operations. The findings were synthesized into a conceptual model, which was then adopted as the basis for designing the survey instrument used in this dissertation. Drawing on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reports, empirical research was performed to explore the relationship between environmental management practices and company performance. Interestingly, the findings showed that many environmental management practices had a strong positive impact on innovation performance. Sustainability disclosures and financial performance were further analyzed using extended data from the GRI reports. The results also showed that several sustainability performance indicators, such as product responsibility, human rights, and society, displayed a significant and positive correlation with return on equity in the sample companies. In order to further explore the research area and to verify these findings, a triangulation approach was adopted and new data were collected via a survey conducted among middle and large sample companies in the Swedish manufacturing industry. The results indicated that the sustainable improvement practices had a positive impact on company performance. Some environmental and social improvement practices had a direct and positive correlation with product and process innovation. Furthermore, findings suggested that better cooperation with suppliers on environmental work could help to strengthen the organizational green capabilities of the focal companies. When considering the company’s general approach to implementing sustainable practices, some interesting findings emerged. There were limited significant differences in sustainable practices when comparing different manufacturing sectors, and different countries and regions. However, the results showed that Swedish manufacturing companies often place higher priority on implementing economic and environmental sustainability practices than on social ones. This dissertation contributes to the literature on manufacturing sustainability. The study expands the understanding of how environmental, social, or economic perspectives as a triple bottom line can influence company performance and to a certain extent the supply chain. Identifying and understanding such relationships gives companies the opportunity to integrate sustainability into their manufacturing operations strategy in order to sustain their manufacturing operations over the long term.
Author : Thomas C. Lawton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199604746
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Aligning for Advantage written by Thomas C. Lawton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book outlines how companies should synchronize competitive strategies with extant strategies for social engagement and political and regulatory activism in order to build and sustain business success.
Author : Marc J. Epstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351276425
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Making Sustainability Work written by Marc J. Epstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate "how-to-do-it" guide for corporate leaders, strategists, academics, sustainability consultants, and anyone else with an interest in actually making sustainability work for organizations. An updated edition of a landmark book at a time when a growing number of corporate leaders are asking for urgent help in "getting this done".
Author : Calmfors, Lars
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 9289365668
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Nordic Economic Policy Review 2020: Financial regulation and macroeconomic stability in the Nordics written by Calmfors, Lars and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How well designed are the financial regulations that have been imposed after the global financial crisis in 2008–09 and the subsequent euro crisis? Will the new bail-in rules work in a systemic crisis, or do we risk further costly bail-outs by governments? How does monetary policy influence household debt? Have macroprudential tools been well-calibrated? Answers to these questions are crucial for judging the risks that the current corona crisis might also trigger a new financial crisis. The 2020 issue of the Nordic Economic Policy Review consists of six papers, including an introduction by editors Lars Calmfors and Peter Englund.
Author : Richard M. Burton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521617332
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Organizational Design written by Richard M. Burton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, step-by-step approach to designing an organization in today's volatile business world.
Author : L. Sacconi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230306187
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Social Capital, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Behaviour and Performance written by L. Sacconi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the concepts of social capital, corporate social responsibility, and economic development in relation to economic theory of institutions and behavioural economics. It also takes a macroeconomic and empirical approach, on the relationship between social capital, ethical behaviour and economic development.
Author : Marty Freedman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849507651
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book Sustainability, Environmental Performance and Disclosures written by Marty Freedman and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the papers that discuss different aspects of sustainability, environmental performance, and environmental disclosures. This title analyzes what firms do about environmental issues and how these activities and their impact on the environment are disclosed in the financial statements.
Author : Walter Leal Filho
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303003562X
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Social Responsibility and Sustainability written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprehensively describes social responsibility and sustainable development, with contributions from scientists and representatives from industry working in the field. The papers are innovative, cross-cutting and many share practice-based experiences, some of which may be replicable elsewhere. Prepared by the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) and the World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre (WSD-RTC), it reiterates the current need to promote social responsibility. Social responsibility and sustainable development are two different concepts, whose integration over the years has led to significant advances in the way enterprises see and perceive their operations. It is not only about policies or steps taken to meet legal requirements, but is also about social equality and environmental accountability, also bearing in mind the links with eco-efficiency, innovation, and the health and wellbeing of workers. According to ISO 26000, social responsibility is the responsibility of an organisation for the impacts of its decisions and activities on society and the environment, through transparent and ethical behaviour that: a) contributes to sustainable development, including health and the welfare of society b) takes into account the expectations of stakeholders c) is in compliance with applicable law and consistent with international norms of behaviour d) is integrated throughout the organisation and practised in its relationships. But even though the relations between social responsibility and sustainability are strong, it is still necessary to encourage organisations to adhere to, or at least follow the principles of sustainable development in their operations, giving something back to the community. As such, there is a need for a better understanding of how social responsibility is related to sustainable development, and of the identification of processes, methods and tools that may help the integration of these two important elements. There is also a real need to showcase successful examples of how to structure behaviour and institutional practice in line with the sustainability challenges we face today. Chapter [Reviewing the Stakeholder Value Creation Literature: Towards a Sustainability Approach] is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
