Corporate Social Responsibility Along the Global Value Chain

Corporate social responsibility in global supply chains

Purpose – The paper aims to present a conceptual framework for analysing CSR practices in global supply chains. It also seeks to demonstrate how a pioneering Swedish company, IKEA, implements and manages CSR practices at its suppliers. Design/methodology/approach – A case analysis of IKEA illustrates the implementation and management of CSR practices in supply chains. The focus is on internal a...

Investigating the Interactive Effect of Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility on the Firm Value in the Tehran Stock Exchange

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of corporate governance (CG), corporate social responsibility (CSR) and their interactive effect on the value of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. For this purpose, the data of 194 companies listed on this stock exchange, which was selected using a systematic elimination method, from 2011-2017 were collected and analyzed using ...

Reporting Corporate Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain

In this paper, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports published by a sample of European Union companies are analyzed in order to investigate how CSR issues are implemented and controlled along a supply chain. In particular, the following issues have been examined: the adopted CSR standards; the principles that suppliers are requested to respect and adopt; the standard implementation ...

The Missing Link; How Corporate Social Responsibility Increases Market Value

Understanding the “Corporate” in Corporate Social Responsibility

As progressives confront the problems of the twenty-first century, be they global poverty and increasing income inequality, the scourge of HIV and other diseases, educational disparities, or climate change, an increasingly popular strategy is to enlist corporations in the effort. Even as some progressives continue to launch attacks on corporate misbehavior, often excoriating corporations for ca...