Progress on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues is vastly different
depending where in the world you look. However, the literature on what drives ESG …

Activist brands commonly engage in controversies to redefine which opinions and ideas are
acceptable to express publicly. We conceptualize this practice as free speech boundary …

This article adds to the discussion of the long-term transformation of CSR, presenting a
perspective on the interplay between CSR debate and public discourse on business …

Globalization and the growth of multinational enterprises (MNEs) have been accompanied
by an increasing call for corporations to take responsibility for their environmental and social …

Addressing the critique that communication activities with regard to CSR are often merely
instrumental marketing or public relation tools, this paper develops a toolbox of CSR …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the characteristics of corporate social
responsibility (CSR) practice in Swedish small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). A …

Since 1992, the national business systems (NBS) approach has been increasingly used to
analyse not only firm characteristics, structures and strategies within NBS, but also the …

The Business Briefings series offers authoritative introductory textbooks in core business
topics. Covering the basics and providing springboards to further study, the books take a no …

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 …

This study examines corporate stakeholder orientation (CSO) across industries and over
time prior to the introduction of mandatory CSR. We argue that CSO is a legitimacy signal …