Idea posted: April 2016
Institutions: University of Michigan Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise
What is the role of social movements in inspiring or sparking corporate social responsibility? To answer this question, Panayiotis Georgallis of the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute for Global Sustainable…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #603Idea posted: March 2016
Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology Ruhr-University of Bochum
The business literature almost unanimously presents a simple, positive picture of the beneficent effects of corporate social responsibility on customer attitudes toward the corporation. Through a series of four quantitative…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #591Idea posted: January 2016
Institutions: The University of Manchester Alliance Manchester Business School Cass Business School, City University London Northumbria Newcastle Business School
Although the impact of the 2008 recession was nearly unprecedented in its scope and depth, nearly all organizations will inevitably face setbacks and severe challenges. Stable, resilient companies can meet…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #577Idea posted: November 2015
Institutions: University of Miami School of Business Administration China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
Parents will naturally have an impact on their children’s values. New research, however, is showing that the opposite is also true: children, and in particular daughters, are impacting their parents’…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #566Idea posted: October 2015
Institutions: International Integrated Reporting Council
As our perception of corporate governance has evolved, the need for a new and comprehensive way to report on an organization’s performance and sustainability has become apparent. One that takes…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #555Idea posted: October 2015
Institutions: Saint Mary's University Queens University School of Business
While much research has focused on the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on profitability and results, less attention has been paid on the antecedents of CSR — that is,…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #554Idea posted: August 2015
Institutions: Harvard Business School Duke University Fuqua School of Business
When people do good things, they reward themselves. This is the conclusion of a number of previous studies into the psychology of doing good deeds. Two researchers from Harvard Business…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #542Idea posted: April 2015
Institutions: University of St. Gallen
While corporations are engaging in socially responsible initiatives related to their industries or to benefit their communities (supporting organizations to help the needy, for example), some companies are going one…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #508Idea posted: April 2015
Institutions: City University of Hong Kong University of Toronto Rotman School of Management Kellogg School of Management
An investigation into the problems of the 1973 Ford Pinto, a car susceptible to catastrophic explosions when rear-ended, revealed that Ford’s engineers had calculated that the company could save $11…
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