Essays on Corporate Social Responsibility and how it is affected by the interactions between companies and other private actors

Diplôme Thèse Essays on Corporate Social Responsibility and how it is affected by the interactions between companies and other private actors fre 2013-10-31 author Amer Maistriau Estefania 630046 director Thoenig Mathias director Robert-Nicoud Frédéric 85680 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:35111 urn:nbn:ch:unige-351119 SES 821 This thesis explores the effect of the interactions between companies and other private actors on the companies' environmental and social performances. The first chapter discusses the historical evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), its potential and its limits. The second chapter shows that failure to report to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), which is an annual requirement for UNGC business signatories, is penalized in the financial markets with lower returns. The third and the fourth chapter focus on the effect of the companies' public exposure for poor environmental and social records on their environmental and social performances. The third chapter shows that a higher level of the press freedom in the foreign markets than in the home country leads to a higher social and environmental performance, particularly on the dimensions of CSR that are publicly visible. The fourth chapter shows that a company's negative public exposure for environmental accidents or poor environmental records, either in the media or in civil society publications and websites, in likely to lead to an increase in the environmental performance. Corporate Social Responsibility Global Compact Media Corporate Reputation Dewey 330/650 9 Faculté d'économie et de management S false cb10699c-c5af-4034-a22c-24b1bf2abd7f Thesis Private estefania_amer_manuscrit.pdf 748546 application/pdf cd0706a4a4a918f047cd4c7c8999d3f0b848c3017fe16ea558aff8556283f089 closedAccess Faculté d'économie et de management

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