Ensuring the sustainability of early stage companies and increasing awareness of the need for balancing targets against different stakeholder groups among young companies are not well developed. Young companies, in the first place, want to achieve financial success very often without regard for...

The purpose of this Special Issue is to investigate topics related to sustainability issues in the new era, especially in Industry 4.0 or other new manufacturing environments. Under Industry 4.0, there have been great changes with respect to production processes, production planning and control,...

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the level of CSR reporting of the top multinational hotel groups in Mauritius. Content analysis method is used to identify the social responsibility patterns found in their annual reports. This study thus investigates the level and the reasons for CSR...

Paraguay ist geprägt von vielen Problemen. Dazu gehören etwa die endemische und überall grassierende Korruption, schwache staatliche Strukturen und große soziale Ungleichheiten. Unter diesen Bedingungen scheint ein unternehmerisches Handeln nach ethischen Grundsätzen zunächst - etwa aus...

This work of Doctoral Thesis raises and questions whether, when referring to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), we are facing a fleeting fashion speech or a strong long-term vision that really discusses the way of doing business from a different starting point. From the conceptual point of...

Corporate Social Responsibility nimmt in Zeiten der Globalisierung sowie zunehmenden Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitsdebatten für Unternehmen als auch für Endkonsumenten eine immer wichtigere Rolle ein. Das Interesse der Gesellschaft insbesondere an ökologischem und sozialverträglichem Verhalten...

Cover -- Zum Inhalt/Zum Autor -- Titel -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Tabellenverzeichnis -- Beispielsverzeichnis -- Teil A: Grundlagen der gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung -- 1. Zur Einleitung - Unternehmen und Verantwortung -- 1.1 Nationale Gesellschaft und...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a hot topic in management research. There is now widespread agreement that CSR is an important means for corporations to contribute to a fruitful interplay between business and society. Although CSR has an inherently normative foundation, the mainstream...

This paper provides an overview of social and environmental management practices in the oil and gas industry. It outlines the evolution of international oil companies' approaches over the last 20 years, reviews what social and environmental management amongst such companies means in practice,...

Vor dem Hintergrund tiefgreifender gesellschaftlicher und wirtschaftlicher Veränderungsprozesse ergeben sich zunehmend Herausforderungen für die Unternehmens- und Markenführung. Dabei bestimmen zwei grundlegende Werte die Diskussion und eröffnen ein Spannungsfeld: Individualisierung -...

This paper investigates the determinants of a responsible multinational firm's decision to enter in a foreign country either through exports or through foreign direct investment (FDI), as well as the relevant market and societal outcomes. We find that CSR investments are higher under FDI than...

In diesem Beitrag wird die Beziehung zwischen sozialer Verantwortung und Finanzerfolg von ausgewählten Unternehmen in den ASEAN-Ländern Indonesien, Malaysia, Thailand und Philippinen während einer 10-Jahres-Periode bis Ende 2015 untersucht. Finanzerfolg wird anhand von relevanten...

The Romanian business scene has recently borrowed the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR), and this evolution was due to the presence of multinational companies (MNCs) that implemented new practices and activities in this area. Our paper aims to provide a presentation of social...

We examine the strategic use of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in imperfectly competitive markets. The level of CSR determines the weight a firm puts on consumer surplus in its objective function before it decides upon supply. First, we consider symmetric Cournot competition and show that...

We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second,...

The paper argues that transparency of large corporate farms operating in transition economies is the factor that affects their competitive position as it helps to preserve access to international equity markets and to reduce uncertainty that arises from imperfect local input markets. We...

This dissertation represents original, empirical evidence concerning the adoption of CSR practices and principles in the context of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) based on comparative case studies among selected companies in the Ethiopian brewery sector. In other words, the study can be...