In Europe, the concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development (SD) are closely linked. Yet this approach to CSR has only taken shape in the last ten years and it is not shared by everyone. The objective of this article is to present the different stages of the CSR...

Our work is part of a research program on the renewal of the discipline of strategic management. The concepts of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility would allow this regeneration. We particularly explore the case of fair trade organizations. The fair trade is indeed...

The concept of global performance is used in managerial literature in order to assess companies' implementation of sustainable development. It refers to an holistic conception of performance. In this this paper we intend to confront the theoretical representation of a balanced integration of...

Abstract: Social requirements concerning corporate social responsibility focus on transparency and harmlessness of firm activities: a factory or a quarry must be invisible, odorless, and silent. Firms must show that they respect those requirements in order to gain legitimacy. They must change...

The present thesis focuses on the definition of potential Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) (or other successor mechanism) financial flows at the horizon of 2020 and 2050 and on their impact on recipient countries’ economies. The analysis is completed by an overview of the current CDM...