Entrepreneurship is a popular topic for researchers and policymakers around the world and much of the work in the area does not distinguish new businesses by size or strategy. However, it is now widely acknowledged that a sub-class of entrepreneurs, often referred to as “growth-oriented...

While corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) is intended to be “practiced” by businesses as they develop and execute their strategies and conduct their daily operations, CSR has a rich history of academic theories and research which should be reviewed to understand the perspectives of...

It is believed that the term “stakeholder” in relation to organizations has been used since the 1930s, when Harvard Law Professor E. Merrick Dodd suggested that businesses had at least four major groups of stakeholders: shareowners, employees, customers and the general public. Decades later,...