Overwhelmed consumers are looking to outsource their consciences to the companies they buy from. But it requires a deeper kind of trust. I’ve never really been a fan of Walmart. I lack the direct experience with the world’s largest retailer to fairly say I don’t like it, but still—a company that has both a taste …
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Overconfident CEOs tend to lead to less corporate social responsibility in a company, a research shows. The more confident the CEO, the less their firm invests in activity that has a positive impact on society.
Fifty percent of global consumers surveyed are willing to pay more for goods and services from companies that have implemented programs to give back to society, an increase of five points (45%) from 2011, according to a study from Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy. …
There’s been a growing movement for investors to care not only about their own financial gain but also about the good of their community. So-called “impact investors” are willing to put their money where their mouths are by investing in companies that also share their commitment to environmental, social, and governance causes, or other causes …
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Academic studies show that building an appropriate reservoir of positive corporate responsibility can help insure against the effect of future bad CSR news on stock performance. But new research shows that investors’ negative perceptions of corporate irresponsibility can also be mitigated with the same-day release of positive CSR news.
