A Literature Review on CSR in the Innovation Process

September 2008.

A new literature review explores the state of the art in corporate social innovation (CSI) research. It briefly outlines the main themes in the corporate social responsibility debate and the organizational innovation literature. 

The review is prepared by Mette Morsing and Kai Hockerts from the Copenhagen Business School Center for Corporate Social Responsibility and is part of a collaborative research effort, the Nordic Centre on Corporate Responsibility (NCCR), bringing together CSR researchers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.  The pdf.-version.

A New Approach to CSR: Company Stakeholder Responsibility.

R. Edward Freeman and S. Ramakrishna Velamuri 2006. Pdf.

The text is part of the 2006 book by Mette Morsing and Andrew Kakabadse “CSR -
Reconciling Aspiration with Application”

Managerial Perceptions of the Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility

Working paper by associate professor Kai Hockerts, CSRcbs. 2007.

This paper draws on interviews with 12 investor relations directors. These were used to elicit the mental models respondents used when explaining their firms’ motivation to engage in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Four dimensions of CSR-induced competitive advantages emerged: risk, efficiency, branding, and new markets. The Pdf-version.

Modelling CSR: How Managers Understand the Responsibilities of Business Towards Society

Esben Rahbek Pedersen, CBS.

Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, CBS

The pdf-version.

Working Paper: Company Stakeholder Responsibility

Niels Kornum Associate Professor, PhD. CBS

Kornum, N (2007). Company Stakeholder Responsibility: A Resource Based Perspective. Working paper, Department of Marketing, Copenhagen Business School