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Modeling Cognitive Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as Preconditions for Sustainable Networks of Relations
No full textThe paper studies the relationship between social capital (SC) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by investigating the idea of a virtuous circle between the level of SC and the implementation of CSR practices that favours the creation of cooperative networks between the firm and all its stakeholders by promoting the spread of social norms of trust, trustworthiness and cooperation.
Following the literature on SC that stresses its multidimensional character (e.g. Paldam 2000), we consider two dimensions of this notion. Starting from the distinction introduced by Uphoff (1999), we take into account a cognitive and a structural idea of SC. The first one essentially refers to the dispositional characters of agents that affect their propensity to behave in different ways. The latter refers to social networks connecting agents.With regard to the concept of CSR, we adopt a contractarian approach and consider CSR as an extended model of corporate governance, based on the fiduciary duties owed to all the firm's stakeholders. Among stakeholders, we distinguish between strong and weak stakeholders. Both these two categories have made specific investments in the firm. However, strong stakeholders are precious for the firm because they bring in strategic assets. They are, for example, skilled workers or institutional investors. On the contrary, weak stakeholders do not bring strategic assets into the firm and firms have material incentives at defecting in the relationship with them. They are, for example, unskilled workers.
By using the tools of psychological game theory, the paper shows the role of cognitive social capital and the adoption of CSR practices in promoting the emergence of social norms of trust, trustworthiness and cooperation which favour the creation of cooperative networks between the firm and all its stakeholders (structural social capital).
In particular, we show that: a) the level of cognitive SC plays a key role in inducing the firm to adopt and observe CSR practices that respect all the stakeholders; b) the decision of adopting formal instruments of CSR contributes to create cognitive SC that is endogenously determined in the model; c) the level of cognitive SC and the decision of adopting CSR practices creates structural SC in terms of a long term relationship between the firm and the weak and strong stakeholders.
From individual responsibility to ÔsharedÕ social responsibilities: concepts for a new paradigm
No full textA Rawlsian View of CSR and the Game Theory of its Implementation (Part I): the Multistakeholder Model of Corporate Governance
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C. Gallavotti et A. Sacconi, Inscriptiones Pyliae ad mycenaeam aetatem pertinentes
No full textOlivier Jean-Pierre. C. Gallavotti et A. Sacconi, Inscriptiones Pyliae ad mycenaeam aetatem pertinentes. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 31, fasc. 1-2, 1962. pp. 406-408
Rendicontazione sociale nel Non Profit e riforma del terzo settore
No full textQuali sono i criteri e le modalità per realizzare oggi una efficace rendicontazione sociale delle organizzazioni non profit? Quali particolari attenzioni bisogna avere anche alla luce dei recenti interventi legislativi, a partire dal Codice del Terzo Settore?
Negli ultimi anni il ruolo del non profit è cresciuto e ci si attende possa aumentare ancora. La legislazione italiana si è impegnata per rendere omogeneo il quadro, prima con il Codice, poi con i successivi decreti riguardanti la rendicontazione e la valutazione dell’impatto sociale. È proprio considerando questo complessivo cambiamento che il GBS ha ritenuto necessario rivedere il proprio documento di ricerca n. 10 del 2009, riflettendo ancora sulle prospettive del Terzo Settore nella realtà italiana e proponendo alcuni capisaldi operativi che – secondo il GBS – dovrebbero contraddistinguere e rendere più efficace la rendicontazione sociale nel non profit.
Il documento di ricerca è diviso in due parti: una prima che richiama e commenta le recenti iniziative legislative e riflette nuovamente sulla natura e il ruolo del non profit nel nostro Paese e una seconda che fornisce indicazioni operative per una più efficace applicazione delle Linee guida ministeriali
C. Gallavotti, A. Sacconi, Inscriptiones pyliae ad mycenaeam aetatem pertinentes (Incunabula graeca, I), 1961
No full textLejeune Michel. C. Gallavotti, A. Sacconi, Inscriptiones pyliae ad mycenaeam aetatem pertinentes (Incunabula graeca, I), 1961. In: Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 64, 1962, n°3-4. pp. 417-418
Compliance by believing: an experimental exploration on social norms and impartial agreements
No full textThe main contribution of this paper is twofold. First of all, it focuses on the decisional process that leads to the creation of a social norm. Secondly, it analyses the mechanisms through which subjects conform their behaviour to the norm. In particular, our aim is to study the role and the nature of Normative and Empirical Expectations and their influence on people’s decisions. The tool is the Exclusion Game, a sort of ‘triple mini-dictator game’. It represents a situation where 3 subjects – players A - have to decide how to allocate a sum S among themselves and a fourth subject - player B - who has no decisional power. The experiment consists of three treatments. In the Baseline Treatment participants are randomly distributed in groups of four players and play the Exclusion Game. In the Agreement Treatment in each group participants are invited to vote for a specific non-binding allocation rule before playing the Exclusion Game. In the Outsider Treatment, after the voting procedure and before playing the Exclusion Game, a player A for each group (the outsider) is reassigned to a different group and instructed about the rule chosen by the new group. In all the treatments, at the end of the game and before players are informed about the decisions taken during the Exclusion Game by the other co-players, first order and second order expectations (both normative and empirical) are elicited through a brief questionnaire. The first result we obtained is that subjects’ choices are in line with their empirical (not normative) expectations. The second result is that even a non-binding agreement induces convergence of empirical expectations – and, consequently, of choices. The third results is that expectation of conformity is higher in the partner protocol. This implies that a single outsider breaks the ‘trust and cooperation’ equilibrium.fairness, social norms, beliefs, psychological games, experimental games
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