Corporate Social Responsibility, Tariff and Technological Innovation in an Open Economy

Does Firm Innovation Affect Corporate Social Responsibility?

This study examines the relationship between firm innovation and CSR. Stakeholders’ concern over transaction-specific investments exacerbates when firms engage heavily in innovation activities. To secure stakeholders’ support, firms adopt CSR effectively as an ex ante signal of sustainability and goodwill. As CSR is endogenous to a firm’s innovation activities, we rely on an instrumental variab...

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

The Influence of Low Carbon Economy on Corporate Social Responsibility

Under low carbon economy environment, as the pioneer of implementing low carbon economy, corporations have to follow current tendency, change ideas, and take their social responsibility actively, so as to win new competitiveness and achieve sustainable development per se. Firstly, we illustrate the positive influence of low carbon economy on corporate social responsibility through elaborating t...

Corporate Social Responsibility in an Experimental Market

We present results from experimental price-setting oligopolies in which green firms undertake different levels of energysaving investments motivated by public subsidies and demand-side advantages. We find that consumers reveal higher willingness to pay for greener sellers’ products. This observation in conjunction to the fact that greener sellers set higher prices is compatible with the use and...

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...