Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance: A Future Research Agenda

Dear Colleagues,

The focus of corporate governance has shifted away from agency conflicts and toward concerns of ethics, accountability, openness, and disclosure. Furthermore, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has shifted its attention to corporate governance as a means of incorporating social and environmental issues into company decision making, benefitting not just financial investors but also employees, customers, and communities. Corporate governance is increasingly being connected to stakeholder-friendly company practices and governmental policy.

This Special Issue aims to examine many topics concerning future study areas of CSR, corporate governance, and probable expansions of these scholarly subjects that may arise in light of the expanding interests of multiple academic disciplines and practitioners worldwide. This Special Issue addresses research work on CSR and corporate governance, as well as the fundamental ideas that have led this area of research. In addition, the current Special Issue discusses future directions of drivers that encourage corporations to engage in CSR and corporate governance initiatives, such as ESG considerations.

Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• CRS and its influence on business performance;
• CSR and its effects on various corporate performance measurements;
• CSR and its societal implications;
• The impact of stakeholders on CSR adoption;
• CSR practices as seen by various stakeholders;
• CSR in family businesses;
• CSR and corporate performance across several industries;
• ESG reporting;
• ESG and CSR research across different industries;
• Trends and future directions of ESG and corporate governance;
• Systematic interaction between ESG, CSR, and corporate governance.

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Dr. Alexandros Garefalakis
Dr. Konstantina Ragazou
Dr. Konstantinos Spinthiropoulos
Dr. Christos Papademetriou
Guest Editors

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• corporate social responsibility
• corporate governance
• ESG