Tekijä: | Aguilera, R.V. (et al.) |
Otsikko: | Corporate governance and social responsibility: a comparative analysis of the UK and the US |
Lehti: | Corporate governance
2006 : MAY, VOL. 14:3, p. 147-158 |
Asiasana: | corporate governance corporate responsibility social responsibility institutional investors United Kingdom USA |
Kieli: | eng |
Tiivistelmä: | It is argued in the paper that key differences btw. the U.K. and the U.S. in the importance ascribed to a company's social responsibilities (CSR) reflect differences in the corporate governance arrangements. Especially, analyzed is the role of a salient type of owner in these countries, institutional investors (here as: i-invs.), in emphasising firm-level CSR actions. Explored are the differences btw. i-invs. concerning CSR. It is drawn on a model of instrumental, relational and moral motives to explore why i-invs. in the U.K. are becoming concerned with firms' social and environmental actions. |
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