Responsibility was mine The decision to part with my baby girl was the most difficult one I have ever had to make. It took months of talking to myself at night, soul-searching and much heartache, until I arrived at my decision. Of course, welfare workers, almoners and the adoption society made every effort to help, to advise and so on, but the ultimate responsibility was mine and mine alone. If...

An increasing number of studies have proposed that corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance depends on how firms apply their resources and capabilities to implement CSR. A firm’s ability integrate, build, reconfigure internal external competencies respond environmental changes is its dynamic capability. Implementation CSR at the strategic level, i.e., (SCSR) requires alignment between ...

Abstract This paper adopts a green managerial delegation model in polluting network industry wherein consumers form fulfilled rational expectations of externalities. We show that firms are consistently incentivized to undertake ECSR (environmental corporate social responsibility) under price competition, while positive externalities can increase the strategic level ECSR. also product substituta...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies are evidenced by adopting socially relevant business practices for people, communities, companies, and related institutions. Based on this conception, the present work determines incidence of ethics CSR regarding diversity, environment, community Chilean companies. The method, applied to a sample 3179 was descriptive correlational. Results demonstr...

The extant literature on cross-national differences in approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR) has mostly focused on developed countries. Instead, we offer two interrelated studies into corporate codes of conduct issued by developing country multinational enterprises (DMNEs). First, we analyse code adoption rates and code content through a mixed methods design. Second, we use multil...

This paper analyzes how natiotial institutiotial factors affect the adoption of the international environmental management standard ISO 14001, using a panel of 139 countries from 1996 to 2006. The analysis emphasizes that during the emerging phase of the standard, the potential lack of consensus within the constituents of the national institutional environment concerning the value of a new stan...