Corporate Social Responsibility: Exploring Stakeholder Relationships and Programme Reporting across Leading FTSE Companies

Stakeholder Engagement, ISO and Corporate Social Responsibility

This is one of three Issue Briefing Notes produced by a partnership of six sustainable development-oriented non-governmental organizations, including three international organizations and three organizations based in developing countries. The Issue Briefing Notes present a general overview of three issues that deserve particular attention in discussions on the possible development by the Intern...

Corporate Social Responsibility and Stakeholder Value Maximization: Evidence from Mergers

Using a large sample of mergers in the U.S., we examine whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) creates value for acquiring firms’ shareholders. We find that compared to low CSR acquirers, high CSR acquirers realize higher merger announcement returns, higher announcement returns on the valueweighted portfolio of the acquirer and the target, and larger increases in post-merger long-term op...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Models and Theories in Stakeholder Dialogue

The pharmaceutical sector, an industry already facing stiff tests in the form of intensified competition and strategic consolidation, has increasingly become subject to a variety of other pressures. Significantly, in common with other large-scale businesses, pharmaceutical firms are being exhorted to respond positively to the challenge of corporate (social) responsibility (CSR). Clearly, for in...

Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and Leadership: Exploring the Compatible Territories

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 ...