“Doing Well by Doing Good”: The Grand Illusion

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Toward a theory of business (2015, background): “He suggested that the poor would be better served if business, government, and civil society worked together to create job opportunities and provide the public services that are so necessary to live a productive and digniﬁed life (Karnani, 2011a).”
Multinational corporations’ economic and human rights impacts on developing countries: a review and research agenda (2014, background): “Central to this is the idea that domestic firms in developing countries can learn about exporting because MNCs generally possess good commercial skills, which domestic firms in host countries lack.”
Crafting Sustainable Development Solutions: Frugal Innovations of Grassroots Entrepreneurs (2016, background): “They also include critical feminist groups claiming more attention should be given to gender empowerment and equality issues [47–49].”
The Signaling Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Economies (2016, background): “Opponents of CSR usually claim that CSR practices detract from a firm’s main goal of profit maximization and are a waste of firm resources (Friedman 1970; Karnani 2011).”