Assessing Social Capital: Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Germany and the U.K.

By Laura J. Spence, R. Schmidpeter, A. Habisch. 2003

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Organizing Corporate Social Responsibility in Small and Large Firms: Size Matters (2011, positive): “In general, SMEs tend not to have the resources to continuously generate knowledge about the increasingly complex issue of CSR and therefore need input and guidance of external stakeholders to manage such processes (Spence et al. 2003; Russo and Perrini 2009).”
Fostering Responsible Communities: A Community Social Marketing Approach to Sustainable Living (2011, background): “…impact of individual SMEs on the environment is likely to be small, researchers agree that their collective impact is substantial (Jenkins, 2009; Spence et al., 2003; Tilley, 1999), suggesting that by adopting green measures this sector could make a significant contribution to global…”
Corporate social responsibility in Ireland: barriers and opportunities experienced by SMEs when undertaking CSR (2007, background): “While articles have been calling for research on CSR in SMEs since the 1990s, the work to date has been limited and there is a considerable amount of research needed ( Spence et al. , 2003”
Social and Symbolic Capital and Responsible Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Investigation of SME Narratives (2006, background): “Thus it is logical that research on ethics and responsibility in small enterprises turns to the concept of social capital as a ‘tool’ (Spence et al., 2003, p. 17) to understand business ethics in SMEs.”
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication and small and medium sized enterprises: The governmentality dilemma of explicit and implicit CSR communication (2019, background): “The perspective of the owner-manager comes out clearly in the same study: ‘I feel that the community is the place we all live in and should be kept clean and tidy and everyone should live in harmony, you know … I have got quite strong feelings about that’ (Spence et al., 2003: 25).”
Can an SME Become a Global Corporate Citizen? Evidence from a Case Study (2009, background): “Most research in this field tries to identify what SMEs are doing regarding corporate social responsibility (CSR) through surveys or interviews (Jenkins, 2006; Murillo and Lozano, 2006; Perrini et al., 2007; Simpson et al., 2004; Spence and Schmidpeter, 2003) or by studying simple cases with special”
Investigating corporate social responsibility in supply chains: a SME perspective (2008, background): “First, SMEs constitute 99% of the European Union (EU) business [5,6].”