The results achieved during the first 15 years since the launch of the UN Global Compact gives evidence that corporate practices are changing, albeit in slow motion, in the direction of recognizing that the single-minded goal of profit maximization is fracturing societies and jeopardize the very...

Behind my reciprocation of a friend's gift may lie both instrumental reasons (I expect further future gifts) and `communicative' reasons (I want to establish or confirm a friendship per se). In a theory of rational individual action, such `communicative' reasons can be incorporated as an...

This paper illustrates the significance of revisiting the idea of public happiness today, by briefly discussing recent contributions, some of which appeared in the IREC review. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

The recent era of economic turbulence has generated a growing enthusiasm for an increase in new and original economic insights based around the concepts of reciprocity and social enterprise. This stimulating and thought-provoking Handbook not only encourages and supports this growth, but also...