Retailing public goods: The economics of corporate social responsibility

By T. Besley, Maitreesh Ghatak. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Strategic corporate social responsibility and economic performance (2013, background): “Much of this literature is normative and qualitative, mainly consisting of specific predictions based on increasingly complex theoretical models (Bagnoli and Watts, 2003; Besley and Ghatak, 2007; Baron, 2009).”
A Positive Theory of Moral Management, Social Pressure, and Corporate Social Performance (2009, unknown): “Besley and Ghatak (2006) consider a model in which a subset of consumers have a demand for the public good attributes of private goods, and firms use strategic corporate social responsibility to respond to those preferences.”
Under One Roof: Supply Chains and the Protection of Foreign Investment (2016, background): “These programs focus on “the creation of public goods and curtailment of public bads” (Besley and Ghatak 2007).”
Nationalism and Economic Exchange: Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations (2014, background): “See, for example, Besley and Ghatak (2007) for one prominent example.”
Beyond Good Intentions: Designing CSR Initiatives for Greater Social Impact (2020, background): “With corporations filling institutional voids and better positioned than governments to address many social problems (Besley & Ghatak, 2007), it is important to understand how well these initiatives fulfill their aims.”
Empirical study on relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance in Korea (2016, background): “On the other hand, Besley and Ghatak (2007) found that breaking CSR promises will result in lower profits, whereas more responsible firms will earn higher profits due to their reputational premium.”
Green Management Matters Only if it Yieds More Green: An Economic/Strategic Perspective (2009, background): “A rigorous theoretical and empirical analysis of such activities in “green markets” was presented in Kotchen (2006) and Besley and Ghatak (2007).”