Linking corporate social responsibility, cooperation and innovation: the triple bottom line perspective

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

A European Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Socially Responsible (CSR) behaviour is a necessary prerequisite of global economic activity and makes this as a different perspective. In this paper, the author’s argument is based upon developments in several countries and special reference is given to UK and Portugal. Responsible behaviour of enterprises should consider innovative forms to present its reports, because is more attra...

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Comparative Perspective

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Environment: A Theoretical Perspective

This article surveys the growing theoretical literature on the motives for and welfare effectsof environmental corporate social responsibility (CSR). We show how both market andnonmarket forces are making environmental CSR profitable, and also discuss altruistic CSR.In particular, nongovernmental organizations strongly influence CSR activities, through bothpublic and private pol...