DOI: 10.5176/2010-4804_2.1.164
Authors: Mara Del Baldo
Abstract:
The main objective of this paper is to identify the relationship between entrepreneurial and territorial values embedded in small and medium-sized family businesses that facilitate the orientation towards corporate social responsibility and sustainability. After a brief analysis of the literary framework on family SMEs and CSR, the work describes the principle findings that have emerged from a qualitative investigation focused on a sample of Italian family SME in which the orientation towards CSR is the result of entrepreneur and family values diffused and shared in the local socio-economic environment to which the entrepreneur, the family and the company are strongly rooted.
Keywords: corporate social responsibility, embeddedness, family small and medium-sized enterprises, sustainability, social capital, social cohesion, values
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