Browsing RSCAS Working Papers by Subject "Corporate Social Responsibility"

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Browsing RSCAS Working Papers by Subject "Corporate Social Responsibility"

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    Title: CSR as a signal to inform collective action  Author(s): TZAVARA, Dionisia Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: Collective action in the form of a boycott or a campaign or any other threat that affects the operations of a firm is considered an instrument in the hands of organizations and consumers to control firm behaviour and to ...
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    Title: Can the Threat of Costly Litigation be Incentive Enough for Companies to Engage in CSR?  Author(s): TZAVARA, Dionisia Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS Abstract: In 1970 Milton Friedman wrote “[t]he social responsibility of business is to increase profits” (p. 122). Today there are voices advocating that engaging in CSR is in the direction of increasing profits. It is also argued ...