Corporate social responsibility culture and international M&As

Corporate Social Responsibility: International Perspectives

Diagnosing the Corporate Social Responsibility Culture

The contemporary business environment places demands on companies to go beyond economic survival and self-interest and satisfy the needs of various stakeholders. Organizations embark on the path of responsibility and sustainability, but many argue that CSR becomes embedded in an organization when it permeates all aspects of organization, including the organizational culture. Existing organizati...

Corporate Social Responsibility for International Business

The recent proliferation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) codes and standards has been matched only by the boom in writings on the subject. This paper will focus mainly on the interaction between these codes and formal legal requirements, at national and international levels. It starts from the perspective that the recent spate of voluntary corporate codes for TNCs must be understood in...

Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility Society’s demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the “psychology and economics” of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, soc...

Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

The ethics we find in companies contains the same elements as the ethics in the socio-economic context in which they operate. The aspirations and ethical levels of companies operating in certain countries differ substantially from those of companies operating in other areas, where the defence of the environment, social welfare, human rights, cooperation, assistance are expected and offered to a...