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Blake, Laura J. "Corporate Social Responsibility as Competitive Advantage." Academy of Management Proceedings 2016, no. 1 (January 2016): 17222. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2016.17222abstract.

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Boulouta, Ioanna, and Christos N. Pitelis. "CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND NATIONAL COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE." Academy of Management Proceedings 2011, no. 1 (January 2011): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2011.65870479.

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Quairel-Lanoizelee, Françoise. "Are competition and corporate social responsibility compatible?" Society and Business Review 11, no. 2 (July 11, 2016): 130–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sbr-04-2016-0026.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the connection between CSR and competition to contribute to the CSR concept through analysis of the conditions for its implementation. While fierce global competition has negative environmental and social impacts and may lead large companies to act irresponsibly, corporate social responsibility (CSR) academic literature, especially stakeholder theory, pays little attention to competition and market pressure. It only highlights the competitive advantage a CSR strategy represents for companies. Design/methodology/approach This work draws upon the academic literature in economics and strategic management, on mainstream CSR papers and on the official disclosure and communication from companies listed on the “CAC 40” of the French stock market. In this paper, the authors use the definition of corporate responsibility which integrates companies’ environmental and social concerns into all their activities. Findings The following three major findings arise. First, on a theoretical level and in terms of corporate disclosure on CSR, a large gap in how the economic view and the CSR view of competition are represented was noticed. Second, the limitations of the competitive advantage obtained by CSR strategy was observed while the “demand for virtue” is weak even if the stakeholders’ “expectations” for responsible practices are strong. The author proposes a typology of CSR strategies related to competitive situations. Third, the author underlines the paradox of the CSR competitive advantage: specifically, it is gained only if not imitable; i.e. if companies prevent the mimetic practices which could spread best practices for sustainable development. Originality/value This paper highlights the limits of the CSR concept within the liberal paradigm. The authors argue that the mainstream theoretical CSR framework based on the hypothesis of the convergence between firms’ objectives and the common interest is not relevant. The framework of the neo-institutional theory is more appropriate to analyse the mimetic behaviour in competitive markets and corporate commitments in sector-based codes of conduct that define new norms of social quality.
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Sousa Filho, José Milton de, Lilian Soares Outtes Wanderley, Carla Pasa Gómez, and Francisca Farache. "Strategic corporate social responsibility management for competitive advantage." BAR - Brazilian Administration Review 7, no. 3 (September 2010): 294–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1807-76922010000300006.

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Mohammed, Nafez, and Mahmoud. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Competitive Advantage: Relationships and Mechanisms." International Journal of Economics and Business Administration VIII, Issue 3 (July 1, 2020): 161–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.35808/ijeba/494.

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Shah, Syed Shujaat Ali, and Zia Khan. "Corporate social responsibility: a pathway to sustainable competitive advantage?" International Journal of Bank Marketing 38, no. 1 (July 19, 2019): 159–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijbm-01-2019-0037.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of customers’ perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on affective and continuance commitment. It analyses the moderation effect of relationship age on the CSR-commitment relationships in the banking industry of an emerging economy. Design/methodology/approach Partial least squares based structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed hypotheses in a sample of 360 respondents collected from the retail banking sector of Pakistan. Findings Customers’ CSR perceptions directly and positively influence affective and continuance commitment. The findings also confirm that relationship age is a positive moderator of the CSR-continuance commitment relationship, but does not influence the CSR-affective commitment relationship. Practical implications Marketers should use CSR activities to enhance customers’ commitment. Given the moderating role of relationship age, marketers should devise different strategies for new and long-term customers. The results clearly show that relationship age affects the CSR-continuance commitment relationship. Long-term banking customers will more likely be in a binding relationship when their banks do CSR activities and disseminate those activities to long-term customers. The study explicitly indicates that maintaining long-term customers’ base through CSR activities helps the marketers in achieving sustainable competitive advantage. Originality/value First, it is the pioneering study to empirically investigate the understudied relationship between CSR and continuance commitment. Second, it examines the moderation effect of relationship age on CSR-commitment relationships in the banking industry of an emerging economy.
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Purwanto, Yadi. "The Effect of Service Delivery Performance and Corporate Social Responsibility on Institutional Image and Competitive Advantage and its Implication on Customer Trust (A Survey of Private Hospitals in Solo Raya)." Issues In Social And Environmental Accounting 4, no. 2 (December 31, 2010): 168. http://dx.doi.org/10.22164/isea.v4i2.53.

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This paper investigates private hospitals performance measured by service delivery, corporate social responsibility, institutional image and competitive advantage with the effect towards customer trust. The data was collected from 420 patients from 21 private hospitals in Solo Raya including Solo city, and 6 regencies: Boyolali, Klaten, Sukoharjo, Wonogiri, Karanganyar, and Sragen. This study indicates that service delivery performance and corporate social responsibility is lesser and lower than patients hope for. Private hospitals in Solo Raya do not yet value image, competitive advantage, and customer trust. Service delivery performance and corporate<br />social responsibility have positive effects towards institutional image and competitive advantage. Institutional image and competitive advantage have reciprocal effects. The effect of service delivery performance towards customer trust, but corporate social responsibility do not have direct effect towards customer trust. From suggested finding result that private hospital<br />repairs service delivery performance, physical facilities, also personnel contact performance to increase corporate social responsibility, to increase institutional image and competitive advantage to increase customer trust.<br /><br />
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Kohli, Amarpreet S., and Ellen Hawkins. "Motivators to Adopt Green Supply Chain Initiatives." International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management 8, no. 4 (October 2015): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijisscm.2015100101.

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There are several factors that drive organizations to consider implementing green supply chain (GSC) initiatives. This paper refines an instrument to empirically test the significance of the following drivers for participation in GSC initiatives: Government Regulation, Buyer/Supply Chain Influence, Internal Readiness, Competitive Advantage, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Corporate Social Responsibility emerged as the most significant variable that effected the decision making of the organizations around green supply chain management practices. Surprisingly, Competitive Advantage, which has been found to be a significant contributor in prior research when studied in isolation, did not emerge as a significant factor in this study. The emergent high correlation between the Corporate Social Responsibility and Competitive Advantage could imply that the Competitive Advantage could be embedded within the Corporate Social Responsibility when agencies focus on greening their supply chains.
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Agwu, Edwin. "Corporate Social Responsibility as an Organizational Tool for Competitive Advantage." International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences 12, no. 2 (April 2021): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.294008.

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The scramble for a larger piece of consumers’ pie by organizations have deepened the race to gain a competitive advantage — more so, in a world now characterized by rapid technological advancements. Traditionally, organizations rely mostly on cost leadership, product differentiation and focus strategies as tools for competitive advantage that will enable them outperform competitors. However, the rapidly changing business landscape has shown organizations that they must go beyond the traditional strategies to compete efficiently. To this effect, this research examines Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as an organizational tool for competitive advantage. It aims to answer the ever-vague question on whether the adoption of CSR can lead to competitive advantage and what drives indigenous Nigerian organizations to carry out CSR activities.
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Abubakar, Ahmed, Sani Ahmed Yauta, and Mohammed Mahmud Khalifa. "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Strategy for University Sustainable Competitive Advantage." Business Management and Strategy 13, no. 2 (July 3, 2022): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/bms.v13i2.19294.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is generally presumed to be associated with companies in the full sense of the word, overlooking the important role of other institutions and organizations in achieving the objectives of the concept of CSR. This study's goal is to scientifically evaluate the link between corporate social responsibility and a university's sustainable competitive advantage. A conceptual model was created based on strategic corporate social innovation literature. The research was quantitative, and the variables were measured using the literature guide to build the research questionnaire. The analysis used structural equation modelling and the result revealed that Corporate Social Responsibility in relation to Customers or/and Students (CSRCS), Employees (CSRE), Government (CSRG) and Social stakeholders (CSRS) has a major impact on a university's sustained competitive advantage. Management and employees at universities can learn how to apply differentiation techniques to address community issues related to healthcare, economic, sociocultural, and environmental. For quality research and community outreach that better fulfill social needs, innovative, quality-based approaches must be developed. The study extends the existing literature by empirically validating the relationship between CSR and a university's sustainable comparative advantage.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Corporate social responsibility, competitive advantage"

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Peters, Richard C. "Corporate social responsibility and strategic performance realizing a competitive advantage through corporate social reputation and a stakeholder network approach /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2007. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3268323.

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Carlini, Joan. "The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Employees: The CSR Employer Brand (CSReb) Model." Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367260.

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become one of the most important strategic decisions for organisations. Already there is substantial evidence that links CSR with improved profitability and enhanced organisation reputation (Freeman & McVea, 2001). From an internal perspective, research indicates that employees’ perceptions of CSR are linked to increased attractiveness as an employer, thus strengthening the bond between employees, organisations and their customers and increasing the likeliness of organisational citizenship behaviours (Greening & Turban, 2000, Hoeffler & Keller, 2002, Orlitzky et al., 2003, Turban & Greening, 1997). Moreover, no longer is a ‘business case’, justifying the link between expenditure and return-on-investment warranted for CSR research. More importantly, what is required is a research agenda that supports the development of CSR-focussed managerial practices that underpin corporate sustainability and competitive advantage (Carroll, 2015). However, a key stumbling block for organisations, seeking strategic benefits linked to CSR, is understanding CSR implementation . In fact, Aguins and Glavas (2012) suggest that there is a dearth of information available to assist managers in understanding the internal mechanisms that effectively support CSR strategy, with only 4% of all published academic articles focussing on CSR and employees. In addressing this fundamental literature gap, this study synthesises a number of complementary theories that assist in understanding the interdependencies of CSR strategy, external and internal marketing and strategic human resources, which support the creation of a sustainable competitive advantage. In doing so, the development and empirical testing of the conceptual model of this study, CSR Employer Brand (CSReb) Model, which uniquely maps out employee perceptions and behaviours associated with CSR, provides the focus for this thesis.
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Katavic, Ivica. "Corporate social responsibility and sustainable competitive advantage| A case study of the cement industry." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3615742.

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At the beginning of the twenty first century, there was an ongoing debate concerning the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in achieving sustainable competitive advantage (SCA). While external stakeholders required corporations to balance economic, social and environmental dimensions, research indicated a considerable gap about how CSR initiatives could be used to contribute to the community and the corporation’s SCA. The specific problem that was addressed in this study is how CSR initiatives can be used to contribute to the community in the form of sustainable development and the corporation’s SCA. The purpose of this qualitative study, utilizing a single embedded descriptive case study research design, was to achieve a deeper understanding on how CSR initiatives are planned, aligned and implemented in large MNCs in the cement industry and how these initiatives may contribute to the community in the form of sustainable development and the corporation’s SCA. The study used stakeholder theory as the theoretical framework and was based on semi-structured interviews with 24 participants: six executive managers from three MNCs in the cement industry and 18 employed community inhabitants in the areas corresponding to three study corporations. Corporations and participants were purposively selected. The study findings clearly indicated that the strategic approach to CSR (i.e., aligning the corporation goals with the goals of the community) may balance economic value creation with the expectations of local communities. These findings revealed that corporate leaders may likely develop “mutually beneficial” relationships with potential stakeholders. As a result, the corporation can improve reputation and access to finance, capital, market and resources, as well as reduce operational risks and attract better employees. On the other hand, the community can get safe and affordable products and services, access to better job offerings, clean environment and a better quality of life. Understanding how CSR initiatives are planned, aligned and implemented in large MNCs in the cement industry may positively impact the community and the corporation’s SCA. Future research was recommended to explore the elements of organizational culture (i.e., values and beliefs) that affect the sustainable management practices of large MNCs.

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Jakobsson, Kim, Sofia Klavebäck, and Tobias Nehm. "Responsible Quality at Casall : Evaluating Corporate Social Responsibility Projects." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-15654.

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Much research has been conducted within Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and it is currently a highly debated topic. Today, CSR is not only pursued in response to public pressure, but is also seen as a source of competitive advantage and differentiation. The problem that this thesis deals with is that many SMEs do not use CSR as a proactive competitive tool in a strategic manner. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to develop an evaluation framework for SME‟s CSR projects, and to use this framework to analyze Casall‟s CSR projects in order to provide recommendations for Casall regarding strategic CSR. CSR as a concept is first discussed with the use of previous literature. This leads to the development of an evaluation framework for SME‟s CSR projects. The methodology is carefully considered, and a qualitative case study is chosen to be conducted at Casall. The results and analysis are presented in accordance with the theoretical framework and method. An in-depth analysis is conducted with the help of the evaluation framework. This leads to recommendations on Casall‟s existing and future engagement in CSR projects. The five recommendations are to simplify the guidelines for producers, adapt the guidelines for producers, get engaged in the local community, implement an internal code of conduct, and raise customer awareness of their engagement in CSR. This thesis contributes to the academic society by combining theories into a practical framework for evaluating SMEs‟ CSR projects. More specifically, the framework is used to guide Casall in their future CSR involvement. The framework can also be useful for other SMEs to evaluate and integrate suitable CSR projects into corporate strategy.
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De, Jong Stefan, and Peter Svensson. "Sustainable drivers and performance in Corporate Social Responsibility." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-35062.

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Purpose To determine sustainable Resource Based View drivers (RBV) (i.e. resources, capabilities) and motivation for the successful (i.e. positive Financial (FP) / Social Performance (SP)) implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the strategies of top performing companies in regards to CSR. In addition to find out how these drivers are being nourished, developed and utilized in order to contribute to the sustainable development in companies. Design/ Methodology/ Approach Interviews are held with CSR-managers from top performing companies based on their engagement and performance in CSR. In addition, their Corporate Responsibility (CR) reports are observed in order to apply triangulation on the company’s engagement in CSR. Furthermore shall reports by third party organizations be observed to get multiple perspectives on the concept of CSR and Sustainability? Lastly an exclusive guest lecture at Linnaeus University is attended which provided insight on corporate partnership in regards to CSR from the point of view of a charitable organization. Findings The most important non-financial drivers of CSR and Sustainability are; knowledge flow, capabilities and competence. Knowledge can be acquired through active engagement with all the company’s stakeholders, especially by collaborating with universities and for example charitable organizations. Companies have invested in the training of top level management in their understanding of the importance of CSR and Sustainability. This is because the top level management is seen as the driving and deciding force within the company to engage in CSR and Sustainability. Some companies have invested research in the understanding of their stakeholders’ perceptions on Sustainability issues which they deem as most important. Delimitations/ Limitations This research investigates the non-financial drivers (i.e. sources and antecedents) of CSR and Suitability in order to invest in and develop the drivers with the purpose of further developing Sustainability. This research is primarily focussed on Swedish companies as they seem to be further advanced in this subject due to for example legislation and the fact that Sweden is one of the most prosperous countries in the world. The purpose of this research is not to generalize the findings, but to provide insight so other companies could learn and develop themselves further in their pursuit for Sustainability.  Implications In order to develop Sustainability further companies need to create tighter collaborations with especially universities as the managers and business leaders for the future, but also other employees, are the students of today. Especially business students complain about the way their subject is being taught as it fails to thoroughly address current and future business problems. Furthermore the concept of Sustainability should be taught not only at universities but at high schools as well, because the society as a whole needs to collaborate to deal with the mega forces that await us in the not too distant future.  Originality/ Value CSR finds itself in a cross-section in academic literature between different affecting disciplines. By combining the different disciplines the authors want to contribute to sustainable development and competitive advantage in CSR-strategies by examining top performing companies who are (perceived to be) well advanced in this subject. Previous research has primarily focussed on proving the relationship between implementing CSR and positive Financial Performance (FP) as the driver of CSR. Much less have other antecedents to CSR been investigated with purpose of further improving sustainable development.
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ARRIGO, ELISA. "Responsabilità aziendale e dinamiche competitive." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/91315.

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L’attività di ricerca contenuta nella tesi di dottorato si è sviluppata, dapprima, attraverso l’analisi a livello internazionale e nazionale dei principali contributi sulla corporate social responsibility (CSR), poi analizzando la responsabilità aziendale in un’ottica strategico-competitiva volta a comprendere perché le imprese tendano ad impegnarsi in attività che apparentemente esulano dalla loro funzione economica. Si è evidenziata la tesi secondo la quale una gestione strategica delle responsabilità aziendali consente alle imprese di intraprendere una crescita sostenibile generando consenso e acquisendo un vantaggio competitivo sui concorrenti.
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PHILIPPE, NOEMIE, and CYRIL ALBERT. "How to gain a competitive advantage with a Corporate Social Responsability (CSR) strategy ? : A single case study on COOP - Swedish food retailer (Eurostop, Halmstad)." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-22605.

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Purpose: The main research objective is to identify how an organization is using a CSRstrategy to gain a competitive advantage Method: The selected research method is a descriptive method followed by an inductive one.Secondary data has been collected from books at Halmstad University’s Library and academicjournals and other articles founded in the University’s Databases. Primary data has beenobtained through an interview carried out with the head manager of Coop Halmstad, JorgenWestman. Theoretical framework: We firstly define in details the concepts of Corporate SocialResponsibility and its three aspects which are Economic, Social and Environmental. Thedescription of the concept of competitive advantage and how to obtain a sustainablecompetitive advantage. Finally, food retailers are defined. Conclusion: A summary of the findings obtained from our study is posted. Another summaryto point out the bounds between corporate social responsibility and competitive advantage.The limitations of the study as well as some suggestions for further researches are added inthis section
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Pettersson, Kristofer, and Papaioannou Stylianos. "Corporate Social Responsibility of SMEs during Times of Turbulence : - A Case Study of Small and Medium-sized Exporters in a Changing Environment." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-20643.

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The increased globalization has brought increased interdependency between countries as well as markets.  The  2007  financial  crisis  impacted  companies  on  a  global  scale  and  the  need  for companies  to  be  socially  responsible  has  increased.  Corporate  social  responsibility  (CSR)  can build reputation and lead to societal and competitive advantage, which can be especially useful for  small  and  medium  sized  enterprises  (SME)  with  limited  resources.  CSR  has  traditionally been  the  domain  of  multinational  corporations  and  little  is  known  about CSR in  SMEs. Recent research  shows  mixed results  of  how  the  financial  crisis  has  affected  CSR  strategies.  The purpose of this study is to explore how stakeholders‟ issues and CSR strategies change during times  of  market  turbulence  and  SMEs  conform  to  the  changes  of  the  internal  and  external environment. This was studied through a qualitative case study of three Swedish exporting SMEs and  their  key  stakeholders.  Interviews  with  managing  directors  of  the  companies  and  key stakeholders  together  with  secondary  data  constitute  the  gathered  empirical  data.  Key stakeholders,  key  issues,  legitimacy  with  stakeholders,  company  matching  with  the  external environment and the CSR strategy,  as well as changes during crisis were analyzed based on the empirical data. We found an increased need for CSR activities during times of turbulence. Two companies  increased  their  CSR  activities  while  one  decreased the  activities.  The results  of  the study  indicate that  the  external  environment  changes  during  times  of  market  turbulence  and companies  need  to  adapt  to  the  newly shaped  environment.  CSR  activities  became  more important  for  some  stakeholders  during  market  turbulence.  Companies  which  adapted  to  the changes  of  the  external  environment  improved  legitimacy  with  their  stakeholders  and  moved toward enhancing their competitive advantage as well as improved their performance. The study contributes  to  the  knowledge  of  how  SME  form  CSR  strategy  as  well  as  how  this  strategy  is changed  during  times  of  turbulence.  We  found  CSR  strategies  of  the  studied  SMEs  to  be emergent  and  intuitive,  and  that  CSR  strategy  changed  in  a  mixed  direction  during  the  crisis. Finally,  a  recommendation  is  made  based  on  the  results.  SMEs  can  strategically  use  CSR activities  in  order  to  develop  a  competitive  advantage through  differentiation by  a  creating societal advantage.
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Salma, Umme. "Can Corporate Social Responsibility be used as a Marketing Tool by the Readymade Garment Suppliers in Bangladesh?" Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för ekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-21921.

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Aim: The aim of this research is to investigate whether CSR can be used as a marketing tool by the readymade garment suppliers in Bangladesh to attract international buyers. Method: This study is conducted by applying qualitative method. The data has been collected through semi-structured interview and using secondary data.   Result and Conclusions: The study reflects that that CSR implementation generates various benefits such as, creates good corporate image, reputation and opportunity for innovation and offers competitive advantage.  As international buyers’ foremost requirement is to verify suppliers’ social compliance, the CSR practices and benefits act as marketing instrument by the garments suppliers to attract international buyers and grab more business. Suggestions for future research: This study considered multiple large (1st tier) garments suppliers and multinational buying organization which calls for further research such as, a comparative study on taking both large and small scale suppliers as well as more international buyers. One of the findings indicates that buyers’ support is important in CSR implementation which can also be considered for further investigation. Contribution of the thesis: This study investigates suppliers’ CSR practices from the marketing perspective in relation to buyers in business to business context which has not been considered in previous literature. Further CSR as marketing tool has not been addressed in developing country context while this study includes empirical study on garment suppliers of Bangladesh. This study suggests that managers need to be aware of the significant role of CSR as marketing tool while designing and implementing CSR programs effectively to increase business. Moreover, CSR activities benefit both the company as well as other stakeholders (customer, employee, public, shareholder, government) of the society by way of meeting those stakeholders’ interest.
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Johansson, Alexander, and Jakob Löfstedt. "Corporate Social Responsibility within Swedish elite football organizations : A qualitative study regarding the CSR work of organizations within Swedish elite football." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-42291.

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Corporate Social responsibility is a term that has received more attention in the world of business in past years. Today, an elite Swedish football organization can be compared to a small or medium sized business. This implies that CSR is becoming a more important term in the football line of business as well. Football engage people all over the world in a unique way that bring people together. It doesn't matter which part of the world you come from, your background, culture or language. Everyone speak the common language that is football. The CSR work of Swedish football organizations is therefore a very important part of society. This since these organization can affect individuals on a daily basis and help them to make good choices in life. The purpose of this Bachelor’s thesis in Business Administration was to investigate how Swedish elite football organizations work with CSR. Partly to demonstrate how important the function of football organizations in society is, but also to investigate and show that through CSR football organizations can achieve goals and values that the organizations are built upon and to investigate whether CSR can lead to competitive advantages that can benefit the organization as a whole. This research study was performed by case studies were four Swedish elite football organizations participated. The study was conducted with qualitative interviews with carefully selected respondents from the different organizations. The results of the study both changed our approach to CSR and gave us a greater understanding of how Swedish football clubs work and view CSR.
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Books on the topic "Corporate social responsibility, competitive advantage"

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Husted, Bryan. Corporate social strategy: Stakeholder engagement and competitive advantage. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Sanjay, Sharma, and Aragón Correa Juan Alberto, eds. Corporate environmental strategy and competitive advantage. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2005.

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1951-, Allen David Bruce, ed. Corporate social strategy: Stakeholder engagement and competitive advantage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Epstein, Marc J. Counting what counts: Turning corporate accountability to competitive advantage. Reading, Mass: Perseus Books, 1999.

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Farquhar, Carolyn R. The privacy challenge: From compliance to competitive advantage. Ottawa, ON: Conference Board of Canada, 2004.

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author, Zhexembayeva Nadya, ed. Embedded sustainability: The next big competitive advantage. Stanford, California: Stanford Business Books, 2011.

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Y, Cross Elsie, and White Margaret Blackburn, eds. The diversity factor: Capturing the competitive advantage of a changing workforce. Chicago: Irwin Professional Pub., 1996.

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Cause for success: 10 companies that put profits second and came in first : how solving the world's problems improves corporate health, growth, and competitive edge. Novato, Calif: New World Library, 2004.

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Brennan, Frank A. Green and competitive: A review of strategic environmental issues which promote global sustainable development by focusing on resource productivity through innovation while gaining competitive advantage : also, the road to achieving the Blue Angel Award for an environmentally sensitive industry. Dublin: University College Dublin, 1997.

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Altenburger, Reinhard. Innovation Management and Corporate Social Responsibility: Social Responsibility as Competitive Advantage. Springer, 2018.

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Book chapters on the topic "Corporate social responsibility, competitive advantage"

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Gupta, Ananda Das. "Competitive Advantage." In Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility, 426–28. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_6.

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Veer, Chandan, and Pavnesh Kumar. "Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Environment Ready." In Employer Branding for Competitive Advantage, 89–102. Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2021. | Series: Information technology, management and operations research practices: CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003127826-6.

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Veer, Chandan, and Pavnesh Kumar. "Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Environment Ready." In Employer Branding for Competitive Advantage, 89–102. Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2021. | Series: Information technology, management and operations research practices: CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003127826-6.

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Osterloh, Margit, Bruno S. Frey, and Hossam Zeitoun. "Voluntary Co-determination Produces Sustainable Competitive Advantage." In Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance, 332–52. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230302112_12.

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Laszlo, Chris, Dave Sherman, and John Whalen. "Creating Competitive Advantage: The Sustainable Value Model." In Management Models for Corporate Social Responsibility, 336–43. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-33247-2_41.

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Drake, Matthew J., and Donald Rhodes. "Socially Responsible Supply Chain Management for a Competitive Advantage." In New Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility, 321–40. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06794-6_17.

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Fifka, Matthias, and Cristian R. Loza Adaui. "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Reporting—Administrative Burden or Competitive Advantage?" In New Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility, 285–300. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06794-6_15.

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Indarto, P. Chatarina Yekti, and Wyati Saddewisasi. "Ethical business practice, corporate social responsibility and competitive advantage." In Facing Global Digital Revolution, 203–6. Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2020] | “Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Economics, Management, and Accounting (BES 2019), July 10, 2019, Semarang, Indonesia”--Title page.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780429322808-48.

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Wolak-Tuzimek, Anna Barbara, and Joanna Duda. "The concept of corporate social responsibility as a source of an enterprise’s competitive advantage." In Competitiveness and Economic Development in Europe, 312–20. 1 Edition. | New York: Routledge, 2021.|: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003095361-28.

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Hawkins, David E. "Competitive balance." In Corporate Social Responsibility, 235–44. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230625815_27.

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Chi-fen, Huang, and Lin Jer-Yan. "The Study on Corporate Social Responsibility Affects Innovative Behavior." In Japan International Business and Management Research Conference. RSF Press & RESEARCH SYNERGY FOUNDATION, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31098/jibm.v1i1.221.

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Corporate social responsibility has received increasing necessary attention from scholars and practitioners in recent years. Businesses are expected to play the role of a corporate citizen in the community to obtain more substantial benefits. Corporate social responsibility has become an international tendency, Corporate Social Responsibility plans should identify the most necessary strategic value in several areas, and find out the topics of most Creating Shared Value, while the creation of social well- being, enhance their competitive advantage, will probably be a vital factor in the company’s future of success. The 262 effective questionnaires were adopted in this study. The results of the study found that the Creating Shared Value has a significantly positive effect on Corporate Social Responsibility, the Corporate Cultural Characteristics is positively significant to Corporate Social Responsibility, and Corporate Social Responsibility has a significant positive effect on Innovative Behavior.
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Kajalo, Sami. "MARKET ORIENTATION AS COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN THE AGE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY – AN INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORK." In 53rd International Academic Conference, Dubai. International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.20472/iac.2020.053.008.

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Li, Jiming, and Hao-Bai Wang. "An Empirical Examination of Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Chinese Banking Industry Investigation." In 2007 3rd International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking, and Mobile Computing - WiCOM '07. IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/wicom.2007.816.

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Dina, Razvan, Bogdan cristian Onete, and Denisa elena Vlad. "SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP VERSUS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN E-LEARNING." In eLSE 2013. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-13-092.

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The exponential development of online education systems has determined that the world's great universities enlarge their offer by giving, for those who are interested, free online courses, without any restrictions regarding previous learning. The courses are only an introduction to the presented subject, offering only the basic terms. Therefore, we can consider that it has been created a new form of corporate social responsibility, but also a new form of social entrepreneurship. Corporate social responsibility is viewed as a source social progress, because of those companies allow appreciable resources and expertise for this kind of activities in benefit society, but this type of practices could be seen as a competitive advantage for those who undertake this concept. Entrepreneur from any domain are interested to create activities which may have a positive impact on society, in this context universities from United States of America choose to open his expertise for anybody who what to learn. We want to see if this opening could be viewed as a social entrepreneurship and how can be seen in report with corporate social responsibility and which is the connection between social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility. For this purpose we made a research among The Bucharest Academy of Economics Studies students, this way, we could find out their opinions about their openness to such forms of education. In the same time we wanted to know how does the new generation suite the greatest international universities' educational offers and if the celebrity of this universities is more important than the educational offer given by Romanian universities. We also wanted to find out if the fact that these courses do not offer a national certification influence their decision or not.
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Bao, Ang. "Innovate Firm's Value Chain to Integrate Corporate Social Responsibility in Strategy Development for Strengthened Competitive Advantage." In 2010 International Conference on Management and Service Science (MASS 2010). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icmss.2010.5576905.

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YALCINTAS, MURAT. "Corporate Social Responsibility as a Differentiation Tool to Achieve Competitive Advantage Cases from Turkish Private Sector." In Seventh International Conference On Advances In Economics, Social Science and Human Behaviour Study - ESSHBS 2017. Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.15224/978-1-63248-137-5-30.

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Boğan, Erhan, Şevki Ulama, and Mehmet Sarıışık. "A Research on Effectiveness of Web Sites in Announcing Corporate Social Responsibility Activities of Chain and Group Hotels: The Case of Turkey." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c07.01712.

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The term ‘Corporate social responsibility’, which is regarded as one of the most important way of developing good relationships between hotels and their stakeholders, provides competitive advantage to companies in long term. Hotel managers possessing a strategical awareness announce these activities they organize for public interest both in their web-sites and via different communication tools. Studies on this subject were scanned and it has been realized it has not been sufficiently examined how efficiently hotels in Turkey use web-sites which are a quite effective tool for announcing corporate social responsibility activities. The main purpose of this study aiming at filling this gap in literature is to analyze corporate social responsibility reports included in web-sites of chain and group hotels in Turkey. Scope of corporate social responsibility and sustainability reports in web-sites of hotel was discussed in terms of stakeholders (employees, society, customers and environment) and examined via content analysis. In addition, communication techniques that hotels use so as to announce these activities were researched. As a result of examination, any statement related to corporate social responsibility could not be found in web-sites of almost half of hotels. It was determined the number of hotels allocating a separate section for corporate social responsibility in their corporate social responsibility, sustainability or annual reports is quite low. From a general perspective, it was found out chain and group hotels in Turkey could not effectively use web-sites for announcing corporate social responsibility activities. Results were obtained through the analysis of findings and suggestions for hotel managers were developed accordingly.
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Chizhova, Tatiana Aleksandrovna. "THE STUDY OF THE ROLE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN FORMING LONG-TERM COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF BUSINESS." In Russian science: actual researches and developments. Samara State University of Economics, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46554/russian.science-2020.03-1-302/305.

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Today social responsibility is becoming an increasingly popular tool for market expansion - the results of numerous researches indicate that the presence or absence of a corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy in an organization has a significant impact on sales. For this reason, the study of the role of CSR in the formation of competitive advantages of companies in the long term in the international market is presented in this article.
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Boğan, Erhan, Saadet Zafer Kavacık, and Mehmet Sarıışık. "A Research to Determine the Opinions and Perceptions of Potantial Manager Candidates Toward Corporate Social Responsibility." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c07.01684.

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In recent years, corporate social responsibility, which comprises economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic responsibilities, has become important concept to build good relations between business and stakeholders and to gain competitive advantage over its rivals. Moreover, it has a positive impact on stakeholder’s (for example; employees, customers, investors) attitudes and behaviors toward business. The main aim of this study is to determine opinions and perceptions of students who study management license toward corporate social responsibility. The research data is gathered from final year students of Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Faculty of Management with a used scale. 251 surveys are used in the research. The findings obtained from research have put forth that management faculty students who are future manager candidates are in opinion and perception of covering respectively economic, philanthropic, legal and ethical responsibilities in their decision-making activities. In addition, the students have listed the company’s four most important stakeholders as community, customers, employees and shareholders. Also corporate social responsibility has been emerged by students as a definition of benefit society, compliance with ethical values, volunteer activities and respect for social values.
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Gschwinder, Joachim. "Sustainability and Labour Law." In Challenges in Economics and Business in the Post-COVID Times. University of Maribor Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.20.

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This article explores the question of how sustainability and labour law are interrelated. The modern world of work is characterised by the growing social and environmental responsibility of companies. Especially in the post-COVID era, sustainability also plays an increasingly important role in the corporate context, which is also noticeable in the so-called ‘war for talent’. Achieving personal career goals is no longer enough for employees today. Corporate values and in particular the socalled ESG criteria (Environment, Social, Governance) are thus also becoming increasingly important in the employment relationship and in corporate reporting requirements. In terms of social sustainability, labour law instruments can, for example, promote the creation of a discrimination-free working environment, the introduction of flexible working time models or the protection of whistleblowers. From an ecological perspective, labour regulations are also suitable for implementing ‘green mobility’ and other measures to reduce companies’ ecological footprints. Working from home, which experienced a huge boom during the COVID-19 pandemic, is also sustainable, especially from an ecological point of view. Appropriate consideration of these sustainable work tools in future corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies not only creates a competitive advantage but can also be beneficial in recruitment.
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