Does Income Inequality Limit or Increase Business Investment from Abroad?

We sought to understand how income inequality could impact one of the most important decisions that a multinational business could make: where to locate their production operations. If different levels of inequality are conducive to different business activities, then reducing inequality would require a fundamental shift among policy makers on how such a socio-economic goal attracts foreign investment.

Government-driven environmental reporting in China: Limitations and prospects

The Chinese government’s recent emphasis on environmental issues has encouraged firms to pay more attention to their environmental activities and reporting; however, the comprehensiveness and transparency of their reporting appear to have reached a plateau. But there are opportunities to revive this process by expanding the diversity and power of local stakeholders to act as watchdogs and as Chinese firms become more exposed to global influences through the process of internationalisation.

Transparency is more than more information

Transparency is often understood as a simple matter of handing out more information – this narrow focus overlooks complex communication processes that also create new realities.

Implementing socially responsible investing in Swiss banks and insurance companies

The study indicates how corresponding time horizons can be organized to advance the implementation of socially responsible investing in financial institutions. The empirically identified mechanisms associated with different time horizons help banks and insurance companies systematically anchor socially responsible investing in their core business.

Is Corporate Social Responsibility bound to fail?

In order to explore whether CSR is indeed bound to fail, I explore the most common criticisms of CSR: that CSR works as an expansion of corporate power, propagates a “business ontology” according to which market mechanisms are strictly preferably over alternative modes of societal coordination, and is most often used as a means to veil essentially problematic business activities.