Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance: The Contribution of Economic Theory and Related Disciplines

Front Matter....Pages i-xli
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Corporate Governance: A Contractual and Organizational Perspective....Pages 3-32
Human-Asset Essentiality and Corporate Social Capital in a Stakeholders-Society Perspective....Pages 33-51
Stakeholder Theory as a Basis for Capitalism....Pages 52-72
Behavioral Economics, Federalism and the Triumph of Stakeholder Theory....Pages 73-98
Specific Investment and Corporate Law....Pages 99-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Market Economy: The Perspective of Constitutional Economics....Pages 131-156
A Rawlsian View of CSR and the Game Theory of its Implementation (Part I): the Multi-stakeholder Model of Corporate Governance....Pages 157-193
A Rawlsian View of CSR and the Game Theory of its Implementation (Part II): Fairness and Equilibrium....Pages 194-252
When Reputation is not Enough: Justifying Corporate Social Responsibility....Pages 253-271
Rational Association and Corporate Responsibility....Pages 272-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
The Roles of Standardization, Certification, and Assurance Services in Global Commerce....Pages 299-331
Voluntary Co-determination Produces Sustainable Competitive Advantage....Pages 332-352
Corporate Trust Games in Modern Knowledge Economies....Pages 353-380
Effects of Different Stakeholder Groups’ Strategic Control on Organizational Effectiveness and Well-Being of Customers and Employees: An Empirical Investigation....Pages 381-409
Trusting, Trustworthiness, and CSR: Some Experiments and Implications....Pages 410-431
Back Matter....Pages 432-441