In the current context of sustainable development performance means not only to create profit at any cost but to create profits without affecting the interests of other participants in the business including without affecting the environment. Meanwhile corporate governance should ensure the...

This article analyzes legal documents and the ways which define and frame corporate social responsibility in the context of the European term of sustainability. The article shows the possible measures that could be taken by corporations in order to execute the goals of sustainability in line...

Après avoir mis en évidence les problèmes de gouvernance posés par la " nouvelle firme ", désintégrée verticalement et intensive en capital humain, nous avançons que la responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise (RSE) peut servir à réguler les rapports de force entre les partenaires...

Responsible behaviour becomes a must in the everyday business owing to the huge pressures from different stakeholders. Products and their quality are no longer considered main competitors but companies, their brands and reputation are. The purpose of the paper is to offer an explanation how...

This paper is based on research into four case studies of shareholder engagement on issues of socially responsible investment. The background to the wider study of which it forms a part is explained before the main contours of the debate on shareholder activism, in theory and practice, are...

This paper intends to use a conceptual paradigm to discuss the ambiguity of corporate governance while issuing shares to maintain their capital adequacy for European cooperative banks. It thus provides theoretical evidence for the arbitrage between stakeholder and shareholder control for these...

In the corporate finance tradition starting with Berle & Means (1923), corporations should generally be run so as to maximize shareholder value. The agency view of corporate social responsibility (CSR) generally considers CSR as a managerial agency problem and a waste of corporate resources,...

In the corporate finance tradition starting with Berle & Means (1923), corporations should generally be run so as to maximize shareholder value. The agency view of corporate social responsibility (CSR) generally considers CSR as a managerial agency problem and a waste of corporate resources,...

This study explored, from the angle of corporate social responsibility and corporate governance, the extent to which the governance of listed companies in Taiwan affected and implemented, and understood its relation with corporate value. The method of statistics using SPSS 17.0 was employed and...