Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility : Corporate Activities, the Environment and Society

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility: Corporate Activities, the Environment and Society adds to the current debate on the societal-level impacts of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This edited volume offers conceptual and empirical contributions highlighting various dimensions of CSR impacts. What differentiates the book from others is that we examine the impact of CSR at the societal level, rather than focussing only on those at occur at the level of the firm. The book’s contributions present novel perspectives that comprise, among others, empirical analyses of CSR activities, accounts of impacts in various geographic locations, and state-of-the-art reviews of extant literature on the topic. The practical examples and theory-building presented here help us to better capture the societal impacts of contemporary CSR practice. This book will appeal to scholars and students as well as practitioners and policy makers interested in practical and theoretical aspects of CSR impacts at the societal-level.

Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives CC-BY 4.0 license.

Robert Kudłak is an Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and a member of the Long Range Planning editorial board.

Ralf Barkemeyer is a Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at Kedge Business School in Bordeaux, France, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility (Wiley).

Lutz Preuss is a Professor of Strategic Management and Director of the PhD Programme at Kedge Business School in Bordeaux, France.

Anna Heikkinen is a Senior Lecturer of Management and Organizations and Academic Director of the Master’s Programme of Responsible Business at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland.