Publication
Nov 2011
Social responsibility and profit maximization in business have been perceived as being irreconcilable opposites but concepts like 'shared value' claim to offer a solution to this antagonism. The idea behind shared value is to produce a good or a service that, while complying with market forces, still offers a positive social externality beyond its private value for producers and consumers. Is such production really feasible in noteworthy amounts and in non-trivial ways?
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Author | Linda Kleeman, Christiane Krieger-Boden |
Series | Kiel Institute Policy Briefs |
Issue | 38 |
Publisher | Kiel Institute for the World Economy |
Copyright | © 2011 The Kiel Institute for the World Economy |