The aim of this paper is to propose an instrumental analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR). After … human capital, we argue that CSR can be useful as a means to regulate power relationships between key productive partners of … telecommunications, we show that CSR is voluntarily used by firms to maintain long-term wealth-creative employment and subcontracting …

This article analyses the complementarity between various dimensions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and … financial performance. We hypothesise that the absence of consensus in the empirical literature on the CSR-financial performance … different CSR components. We investigate such relationships using a sample of 595 firms from 15 European countries over the 2002 …

The promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is likely to depend on consumers' purchase behaviors. While many … marginal utility of income (a high income) are likely to purchase CSR products. Moreover, purchase decisions crucially depend … on the existence of labels, which truthfully identify the CSR products. Public policies may promote consumer social …

, only third-party certification clearly produces efficiency gains, by increasing CSR investments. In markets where … paying more for the same level of CSR investments by firms. …

-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the ways in which corporations use such relationships as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR … alliances and to explain their expansion. The findings show that firms engage in CSR for altruistic, defensive, and strategic …