When Does Corporate Social Performance Pay for International Firms?

Wage Subsidies and International Trade: When Does Policy Coordination Pay?

National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, which suggest that there are benefits from international policy coordination. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an international duopoly model with unionized labour markets. The authors document both positive and negative ...

Firms’ Board Independence and Corporate Social Performance: A Meta-Analysis

This paper investigates the influence of organizations’ board independence on corporate social performance (CSP) using a meta-analytic approach. A sample of 87 published papers is used to identify a set of underlying moderating effects in that relationship. Specifically, differences in the system of corporate governance, CSP measurement models and market conditions have been considered as moder...

Board Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from Iranian Firms

According to agency theory, board of directors plays an important monitoring role in reducing information asymmetry and increasing the transparency of financial statements and social responsibility. This research is concerned with examining board diversity and social responsibility of the firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2011-2015. To do so, a sample of 98 firms was se...

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...

Corporate Social Responsibility: International Perspectives