Intra-organisational drivers of purchasing social responsibility

Developing a Typology of Organisational Forms of Cooperative Purchasing

This paper develops a typology for purchasing groups. In the typology, five ideal forms of cooperative purchasing are distinguished based on seven main dimensions. The forms are positioned in a matrix according to two distinguishing dimensions. These two dimensions are the ‘influence by all members on the group activities’ and the ‘number of different group activities’. Underlying the two-dimen...

The Determination of Social Needs as Drivers of Social Innovation

Social innovation has been contextualized as a new way of resolving deeply entrenched development issues. The identification and resolution of social needs is said to be the driving force of social innovation. With features such as sustainability and scalability, social innovation has the potential to change the way we perceive and engage with development in the future. This research takes a cr...

Impact of Consumer Social Responsibility and Brand Social Responsibility Image on Brand Loyalty

The present paper focus on ITC notebook and try to understand consumer social responsibility for  cause related brand and how their preference level changes with different firm donations, and how this activity leads to brand loyalty in long run. An experimental design with 693 participants was used. The results shows that consumers like cause related marketing campaigns and ready to do extra ef...

How the World and Organisations Change Emerging Strategic Organisational Approaches towards Corporate Social Responsibility

An Evolutionary Theory of Intra-organisational Competition

A version of this paper will be presented at the Academy of Management meeting in Washington, 2001. This is work in progress. Comments are welcome, but please do not reproduce, quote, or cite without prior permission of the authors. Correspondence to the second author listed.