Most cited papers in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
What are the most cited papers in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability?
The most cited paper in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability is "Does ESG performance have an impact on financial performance? Evidence from Germany" (Patrick Velte, 2017), with 975 citations. Next come "Corporate Social Responsibility Education in Europe" (457) and "The Stakeholder Approach Revisited" (454).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 44 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Does ESG performance have an impact on financial performance? Evidence from Germany Patrick Velte · Journal of Global Responsibility | 13 Jun 2017 | 975 |
| 2 | Corporate Social Responsibility Education in Europe Dirk Matten, Jeremy Moon · Journal of Business Ethics | Nov 2004 | 457 |
| 3 | The Stakeholder Approach Revisited R. Edward Freeman · Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik | 2004 | 454 |
| 4 | Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Models and Theories in Stakeholder Dialogue Linda O’Riordan, Jenny M. Fairbrass · Journal of Business Ethics | 15 Apr 2008 | 410 |
| 5 | Corporate Social Responsibility Dirk Matten, Jeremy Moon · Journal of Business Ethics | Dec 2004 | 345 |
| 6 | The Global Reporting Initiative and corporate sustainability reporting in Swedish companies Carl‐Johan Hedberg, Fredrik von Malmborg · Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management | 18 Aug 2003 | 334 |
| 7 | Corporate social responsibility in the food sector Monika Hartmann · European Review of Agricultural Economics | 12 Jul 2011 | 298 |
| 8 | The Business Firm as a Political Actor Andreas Georg Scherer, Guido Palazzo, Dirk Matten · Business & Society | 3 Dec 2013 | 274 |
| 9 | Approaches to corporate sustainability among German companies Tobias Hahn, Mandy Scheermesser · Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management | 15 Feb 2006 | 268 |
| 10 | Zeitgeist or chameleon? A quantitative analysis of CSR definitions Soumodip Sarkar, Cory Searcy · Journal of Cleaner Production | 10 Jul 2016 | 248 |
| 11 | CASA--practical aspects. Sharon T. Mortimer · PubMed | 25 Oct 2000 | 245 |
| 12 | Experiences of and views on third-party assurance of corporate environmental and sustainability reports Jeehye Park, Torbjörn Brorson · Journal of Cleaner Production | 8 Feb 2005 | 231 |
| 13 | Carbon Management Accounting: Explaining Practice in Leading German Companies Roger Leonard Burritt, Stefan Schaltegger, Dimitar Zvezdov · Australian Accounting Review | Mar 2011 | 227 |
| 14 | Defining corporate social responsibility Daniel Silberhorn, Richard C. Warren · European Business Review | 18 Aug 2007 | 227 |
| 15 | Waste Management in Germany – Development to a Sustainable Circular Economy? Michael Nelles, J. Grünes, Gert Morscheck · Procedia Environmental Sciences | 2016 | 220 |
| 16 | Implementing sustainability as the new normal: Responsible management education – From a private business school's perspective Monika Kolb, Lisa Fröhlich, René Schmidpeter · The International Journal of Management Education | 16 Jun 2017 | 176 |
| 17 | Meanings of the term ‘sustainable development’ in Finnish corporate disclosures Matias Laine · Accounting Forum | 24 May 2005 | 174 |
| 18 | Risiko: Wie man die richtigen Entscheidungen trifft Gerd Gigerenzer | 2013 | 163 |
| 19 | Responding to policy change: New business models for renewable energy cooperatives – Barriers perceived by cooperatives’ members Carsten Herbes, Vasco Brummer, Judith Rognli et al. · Energy Policy | Jul 2017 | 158 |
| 20 | Focus and Standardization of Sustainability Reporting – A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom and Finland Matthias S. Fifka, Maria Drabble · Business Strategy and the Environment | 28 Mar 2012 | 143 |
| 21 | Corporate social responsibility and environmental reporting in controversial industries Thomas Kilian, Nadine Hennigs · European Business Review | 16 Dec 2013 | 134 |
| 22 | Sustainability Design and Software: The Karlskrona Manifesto Christoph Becker, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Letícia Duboc et al. · University of Huddersfield Repository (University of Huddersfield) | 2015 | 125 |
| 23 | Governancetheorie: Erkenntnisinteresse und offene Fragen Renate Mayntz · Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks | 2009 | 125 |
| 24 | From “niche” to “mainstream” ‐ strategies for marketing organic food in Germany and the UK Uwe Latacz‐Lohmann, Carolyn Foster · British Food Journal | Sep 1997 | 123 |
| 25 | Nachhaltiges Ressourcenmanagement Burkhard von Freyberg, Axel Gruner, Willy Legrand | 2024 | 120 |
| 26 | A Critical Assessment of the Theoretical and Empirical Research on German Works Councils Carola M. Frege · British Journal of Industrial Relations | Jun 2002 | 119 |
| 27 | Stakeholder Theory: A Luhmannian Perspective Vladislav Valentinov, Steffen Roth, Matthias Georg Will · Administration & Society | 18 Jul 2018 | 117 |
| 28 | Klimaschutz als Gestaltungsaufgabe für die Zivilgesellschaft Ansgar Klein, Lilian Schwalb, Charlotte Ruhbaum et al. · Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen | Jul 2020 | 116 |
| 29 | Sustainability reporting in the Austrian, German and Swiss public sector Dorothea Greiling, Albert Anton Traxler, Sandra Stötzer · International Journal of Public Sector Management | 11 May 2015 | 116 |
| 30 | Empirical Findings on Business–Society Relations in Europe Astrid Konrad, Reinhard Steurer, Markus Langer et al. · Journal of Business Ethics | 29 Dec 2005 | 108 |
| 31 | Collaborative Governance: Mehrebenendynamiken und Mechanismen des Wandels Holger Straßheim · dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy Recht und Management | 2 Dec 2013 | 105 |
| 32 | Bedingungen einer neuen ökologischen Industriepolitik Barbara Praetorius, Wolfgang Dierker · Wirtschaftsdienst | May 2022 | 102 |
| 33 | Corporate Sustainability Reporting in Europe: A Scoping Review Tami Dinh, Anna Husmann, Gaia Melloni · Accounting in Europe | 30 Dec 2022 | 101 |
| 34 | Sustainability Management in Practice: Organizational Change for Sustainability in Smaller Large-Sized Companies in Austria Aisma Linda Kiesnere, Rupert J. Baumgartner · Sustainability | 22 Jan 2019 | 100 |
| 35 | Carbon management accounting and reporting in practice Delphine Gibassier, Stefan Schaltegger · Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal | 17 Aug 2015 | 99 |
| 36 | Energy cooperatives in Germany – an example of successful alternative economies? Britta Klagge, Thomas Meister · Local Environment | 9 Feb 2018 | 98 |
| 37 | Ecological tax reform in Germany: handling two hot potatoes at the same time Christiane Beuermann, Tilman Santarius · Energy Policy | 21 Oct 2004 | 94 |
| 38 | Vertrauen in Technik Gerald C. Wagner · Zeitschrift für Soziologie | Apr 1994 | 93 |
| 39 | The Framing of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Globalization of National Business Systems: A Longitudinal Case Study Stefan Tengblad, Claes Ohlsson · Journal of Business Ethics | 10 Nov 2009 | 92 |
| 40 | Reifegradmodell CSR – eine Begriffsklärung und -abgrenzung Andreas Schneider | 2012 | 89 |
| 41 | The management of greenhouse gas emissions in large European companies Rory Sullivan · Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management | 24 Feb 2009 | 87 |
| 42 | Internet‐supported sustainability reporting: developments in Germany Christian Herzig, Jasmin Godemann · Management Research Review | 30 Sep 2010 | 87 |
| 43 | Stakeholder orientation and corporate social responsibility as a precondition for sustainability Klaus J. Zink · Total Quality Management & Business Excellence | Oct 2005 | 86 |
| 44 | Board-level codetermination: A driving force for corporate social responsibility in German companies? Robert Scholz, Sigurt Vitols · European Journal of Industrial Relations | 26 Feb 2019 | 83 |
| 45 | Participatory Budgeting in Germany – A Review of Empirical Findings Sebastian H. Schneider, Stefan Busse · International Journal of Public Administration | 19 Jan 2018 | 83 |
| 46 | R�ntgenspektrum und Bindungszustand Alfred Faessler, Margot Goehring · Die Naturwissenschaften | 1952 | 83 |
| 47 | Governance of sustainability in the German biogas sector—adaptive management of the Renewable Energy Act between agriculture and the energy sector Daniela Thrän, Kay Schaubach, Stefan Majer et al. · Energy Sustainability and Society | 10 Jan 2020 | 81 |
| 48 | Social Accountability 8000 Dirk Ulrich Gilbert | 2020 | 81 |
| 49 | The Role of Governments in Corporate Social Responsibility: Characterising Public Policies on CSR in Europe Reinhard Steurer · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2013 | 80 |
| 50 | PLT MzScheme: Language Manual Matthew Flatt | 2000 | 80 |
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