Corporate Social Responsibility: An Overview and New Research Directions: Thematic Issue on Corporate Social Responsibility [From the Editors]

• Main Authors: WANG, Heli, TONG, Li, TAKEUCHI, Rikki, GEORGE, Gerard
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: environmental performance; impression management; financial performance; institutional logics; natural-environment; research agenda; philanthropy; perceptions; legitimacy; risk; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4942; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5941/viewcontent/CSR_Overview_2016_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR)—that is, businesses bearing a responsibility to society and a broader set of stakeholders beyond its shareholders—gained currency in the 1960s. Since then, attention on CSR has been growing in both academic and practitioner communities around the wor...