Corporate Social Responsible

Toyota’s Global Edge: Why It Stays Ahead of Rivals

Toyota’s strategic use of historical values to safeguard its distinctiveness offers profound insights for contemporary corporations navigating the digital age.

Can Immigrant CEOs Help Reduce Corporate Irresponsibility in Their Home Countries?

When companies engage in harmful actions like polluting the environment or violating human rights, it’s known as corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). Such CSI incidents tend to happen more frequently in certain regions or countries as compared to others.

For Big Brands, There’s No Such Thing as Neutral When it Comes to Major Social Issues

There’s clearly no ‘safe’ public position to take on such a visible and contentious topic, but is corporate neutrality on social issues possible?

When Does Corporate Misconduct Become Scandal?

According to a new study published in the Strategic Management Journal, only 36% of the 224 data breaches at publicly traded US companies between 2015 and 2018 received media attention.

The type of social venture model can determine a firm’s value creation and value capture potential

About 10 million social enterprises exist globally and — in addition to creating social good — they generate $2 trillion in revenue each year. That makes this sector larger than…

Yes, Corporate Social Misbehavior Harms Your Brand Globally

As of 2022, 98% of the S&P 500 publish sustainability reports largely detailing corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts. While these efforts rarely make headlines, they have proved an important brand…

New Study Suggests Major Chemical Corporations Hide Most Polluting Activities in Subsidiaries

Large corporations have used subsidiaries since the 1880s, and by the early 2000s 85% of the 500 largest U.S. companies were multilayered. The corporate veil created by this structure is…

SMS 44th Annual Conference Istanbul

Strategic Management of Fault Lines, Contradictions, and Divergences

Corporate Strategy Masterclass on Resource Allocation Across Business and Countries

Release date: July 31, 2023 Speakers: Aseem Kaul, Samina Karim, Denisa Mindruta, and Zeke Hernandez. Please join the SMS Corporate Strategy Interest Group for its eighth Masterclass on the topic…

Strategic Responses to Crisis

A Virtual Special Issue edited by Matthias Wenzel, Sarah Stanske, and Marvin Lieberman Currently, the pandemic crisis is affecting the lives of people and organizations around the world. As the…