Social Capital, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Behaviour and Performance

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Introduction......Page 14
Part I: New Perspectives on the Economic Theory of Institutions, Individual Preferences and Social Norms......Page 32
1 A Plea for Unconventional Economics......Page 34
2 A Rawlsian View of CSR and the Game Theory of its Implementation (III): Conformism, Equilibrium Refinement and Selection......Page 55
3 Trustful Banking: A Psychological Game-Theoretical Model of Fiduciary Interactions in Micro-credit Programs......Page 93
4 The Relationship Between Competition and Trust: An Essay in an Historical and Theoretical Perspective......Page 114
Part II: Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility: a Game Theoretical and Network Analysis Approach......Page 140
5 Linking Economic and Social-Exchange Games: From the Community Norm to CSR......Page 142
6 Social Capital in Networks of Relations......Page 162
7 Modeling Cognitive Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility as Preconditions for Sustainable Networks of Relations......Page 174
Part III: The Economic Effect of Social Capital and Other-regarding Preferences: Experimental and Empirical Evidence......Page 254
8 Social Distance, Cooperation and Other-regarding Preferences: A New Approach Based on the Theory of Relational Goods......Page 256
9 Generalized Trust: An Experimental Perspective......Page 273
10 Testing the Distributive Effects of Social Enterprises: The Case of Italy......Page 295
Part IV: Social Capital and Sustainable Economic Development: the Macro Approach......Page 318
11 Social Assets, Technical Progress and Long-Run Welfare......Page 320
12 Generalized Trust: The Macro Perspective......Page 344
13 The Local Path to Sustainable Development: Social Capital in Naples......Page 371
Index......Page 393