
How to Design Cross-Sector Partnerships to Strengthen System Capacity?
From “quick fixes” to supporting system capacity: How to better embed cross-sector partnerships in the social issue context

From “quick fixes” to supporting system capacity: How to better embed cross-sector partnerships in the social issue context

This research unpacks facilitators of career advancement and leadership among persons with disabilities. These facilitators include career self-management strategies, supportive social networks, and organizational and societal factors that are all required for career success.

We investigate the financial market’s reactions to such decoupling practices by firms and the monitoring role of financial analysts in reducing the CSR disclosure-performance gap.
Our study identified the relationship between local stakeholder pressures and the CSR of foreign subsidiaries in South Korea. Our findings suggest that primary stakeholders increase responsive CSR, while secondary stakeholders increase both responsive and strategic CSR.
While CEOs may be inclined to speak on important societal issues, the strategic consequences of their statements are not always clear cut.
The authors reflect on their paper “Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Asia: A Seven Country Study of CSR Web Site Reporting” - on what they knew then, what they know now, and how much things have evolved.

Our study argues that globalization has led companies to disregard their long-term impacts while becoming disconnected from place. Such views of time and place have resulted in a narrow and simplistic approach to sustainability, and we call on companies to rethink their sense of time and sense of place in order to strengthen their sustainability efforts.

Firms pay more for investment capital if they are headquartered in U.S. states with higher levels of political corruption. The increase in cost is higher for firms that have poorer internal governance, or less external monitoring by institutional investors or providers of debt.

Companies’ boards of directors directly influence the social and environmental policies pursued by the corporate world, which plays a major role in the quality of life of everyone in society. Boards with more directors on them, which include more independent directors and more women, and who appoint a CSR board committee, are more likely to pursue socially and environmentally friendly practices.