Corporate Social Responsibility in the Fashion Industry: How Eco-Innovations Can Lead to a (More) Sustainable Business Model in the Fashion Industry

2018 ◽  
pp. 257-275
Author(s):  
Thomas Cleff ◽  
Gwen van Driel ◽  
Lisa-Marie Mildner ◽  
Nadine Walter
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Corporate Social

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility and Customer Engagement: A Greater Good For A Greater Gain

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Medha Srivastava ◽  
Priyanka .
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Customer Relationships ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
Good For ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

The ever evolving arena of customer relationships seems to be turning a new page by engaging the customers in all too new and innovative ways which were few years ago incomprehensible and impractical. The magnitude of such efforts is grand both in terms of scale and depth and may range from launching and lauding various commercial offerings to cater even infinitesimal demands of the customers to participate into and publicize the corporate social responsibility dimension of the business. Moreover, companies are walking many extra miles for actively seeking the cooperation of customers in creating a better and more sustainable business model and thereby, pursuing customer engagement in a subtle and suave manner. Present study aims to explore and enunciate the concept and antecedents of customer engagement in modern consumption scenario and decipher its denotation in terms of various customer engagement programs being organized across the length and breadth of businesses. Further, the study seeks to examine the impact of companies' corporate social responsibility practices upon the strength and success of their customer engagement programs.

scholarly journals Meanings and Implications of Corporate Social Responsibility and Branding in Grocer Retailers

2014 ◽  
pp. 351-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Candelo ◽  
Cecilia Casalegno ◽  
Chiara Civera
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Shared Value ◽  
Grocery Industry ◽  
Strategic Model ◽  
Commercial Value ◽  
Corporate Social

The chapter demonstrates the extent to which companies operating in the Retailing Grocery industry use Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as driver to enhance their brand and pursue commercial value, or to purely redefine their business priorities in accordance to evolving consumers' needs and expectations by making CSR a new concrete business model and evolving towards the concept of Corporate Shared Value (CSV). The study is addressed to analyse the matter of facts in two different European geographical areas: Italy and United Kingdom, chosen because of the peculiar approaches in companies' attitude towards CSR and CSV, ultimately. Many differences and some relevant similarities in the implementation of CSV as new strategic model between the countries have emerged, with UK showing the most formalized and standardized integration between social and economic value within its Grocer Retailer companies' business activities.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Business

2019 ◽  
pp. 1001-1016
Author(s):  
Ioana Duca ◽  
Rodica Gherghina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
International Level ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Corporate Social

In this article, the authors propose an analysis of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) concept together with an emphasis on the role it plays in the context of sustainable development. The article includes a synthesis of the various theoretical approaches to CSR, an overview of the development of CSR practices at a national and an international level, certain authors' for and against arguments are related to generalising these practices, trends regarding CSR practices at international level, as well as an analysis of the CSR practices in Romania. The research conclusions express the author's own points of view on the development of corporate social responsibility initiatives at company level and the related benefits thereof.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Business

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Ioana Duca ◽  
Rodica Gherghina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
International Level ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Corporate Social

In this article, the authors propose an analysis of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) concept together with an emphasis on the role it plays in the context of sustainable development. The article includes a synthesis of the various theoretical approaches to CSR, an overview of the development of CSR practices at a national and an international level, certain authors' for and against arguments are related to generalising these practices, trends regarding CSR practices at international level, as well as an analysis of the CSR practices in Romania. The research conclusions express the author's own points of view on the development of corporate social responsibility initiatives at company level and the related benefits thereof.

scholarly journals How Corporate Social Responsibility Influences Business Model Innovation: The Mediating Role of Organizational Legitimacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baoliang Hu ◽  
Tao Zhang ◽  
Shuai Yan
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Organizational Legitimacy ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Answering Questions

Business model (BM) innovation driven by corporate social responsibility (CSR) has attracted considerable attention from scholars. However, the understanding of whether and how CSR influences BM innovation is limited. Therefore, this paper aimed to fill these gaps by exploring the influence of CSR on BM innovation through the mediating role of organizational legitimacy (OL). This paper proposed research hypotheses on the relationships among CSR, OL, and BM innovation and empirically tested these hypotheses by using the hierarchical regression analysis method with data collected from 186 firms. The results of this study show that both CSR and OL positively influence BM innovation. The results also show that CSR positively influences OL and OL mediates the relationship between CSR and BM innovation. This paper provides new insights into the relationship between CSR and BM innovation by answering questions of whether and how CSR influences BM innovation. This paper may help managers better understand how to link CSR and BM innovation.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility and Crowdfunding: The Experience of the Colectual Platform in Empowering Economic and Sustainable Projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Mauricio Flórez-Parra ◽  
Gracia Rubio Martín ◽  
Carmen Rapallo Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Financial Barriers ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Financial Characteristics ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Cost

In recent years, sustainable crowdfunding has been one of the key elements in the search for new sources of financing. This has involved eliminating financial barriers and intermediaries, bringing entrepreneurs’ projects closer to fund providers, and thus instigating changes in traditional investment and profitability parameters. Among these indicators, the sustainable business return and its relationship with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) could be a relevant factor to improve the cost of funding, to explain the return on assets (ROA), and, consequently, impacting on the return on equity (ROE). In this context, this paper takes as a reference 101 projects that are part of Colectual’s lending. We analyze factors such as sustainability—the application of CSR across a social responsibility index; the financial characteristics of the company—liquidity, leverage, and solvency; and the characteristics of the loans related to crowdfunding—amount, maturity, and charge rate of the loan. Our study provides empirical evidence that, besides financial characteristics, the commitment to CSR can improve collective lending and the management of resources, as well as enhance the capital wealth of companies, by improving shareholder profitability or ROE. Investors consider not only financial risk but also sustainability factors.

scholarly journals Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Text of Annual Reports—The Case of the IT Services Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renáta Myšková ◽  
Petr Hájek
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Word List ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
It Services ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Word Lists ◽  
Services Industry ◽  
Corporate Social

Annual reports are an important source of qualitative information about a company’s strategic areas, including sustainability. However, previous work on sustainability assessment has been limited to quantitative indicators that are difficult to obtain. Here, we address this issue by analyzing a company’s strategic documents, with the specific aim of demonstrating the role of sustainability and social responsibility in the text of the annual reports of companies in the IT services industry. We demonstrate that this information is a significant determinant of future economic outcomes. Specifically, here we evaluate sentiment in managerial communication in the area of sustainable business by using collocation analysis of topic and sentiment word lists. Several domain-specific word lists were used for each category monitored. Specifically, Loughran and McDonald’s word list was used to measure sentiment in the context of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. The word list that was developed by Pencle and Malaescu was used for CSR, while novel word lists are proposed for sustainability topics. The results of experiments show that the sentiment of sustainability topics (environmental and social in particular) in the annual reports may be a significant indicator of future profitability and thus represent an important information for corporate stakeholders.

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