- Focus on companies´ opportunities to enhance their overall contribution to society and to the pursuit of sustainability: scope of corporate responsibility, business guidance, managerial challenges, corporate responsibility and corporate governance
- Micro-foundations of corporate responsibility activities, including:
- the stakeholder approach
- optimal response to government regulation
- anticipation of future regulation by government
- principal-agent issues possible conflicts with profit maximisation
- Understanding the relationship between optimality (Pareto-efficiency), sustainability (intergenerational welfare development) and ethics (in particular the issue of human rights)
- Corporate responsibility through market behaviour vs. action in the political sphere: alternatives, complementarities, and conflicts
- Provision of tools and strategies for responsible and sustainable firm behaviour
- Development of a solid methodology for the design of CR policies, in particular for financial services firms
- Consolidation of a data base on corporate responsibility issues
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