The EU puzzling CSR regime and the confused perception by ambassadors of luxury fashion businesses : A case study from Pařížská.

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Result on the web

<a href="http://cebr.vse.cz/pdfs/cbr/2020/03/05.pdf" target="_blank" >http://cebr.vse.cz/pdfs/cbr/2020/03/05.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18267/j.cebr.240" target="_blank" >10.18267/j.cebr.240</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The EU puzzling CSR regime and the confused perception by ambassadors of luxury fashion businesses : A case study from Pařížská.

Original language description

Despite a decades-long discussion about corporate social responsibility ("CSR"), there is little known about the evolution and meaning of the EU law on CSR and its perception by various stakeholders. The two objectives of this paper are: (i) assessing the evolution to the current EU law on CSR and (ii) making a case study about the perception of CSR by businesses from the luxury fashion industry supposed to be the leading CSR force, namely their ambassadors - CEOs and employees facing the clientele in Parížská street in Prague. In order to address these two objectives, holistic and interdisciplinary research of economic, legislative and academic sources as well as a case study, entailing interviews and mystery shopping was performed. The exploration of the yielded data employed Meta-Analysis, content analysis, teleological interpretation, etc. The critical and comparative review of the evolution of the EU law on CSR shows piecemeal trends and a lack of permanent consent. This leads to the fragmentation and ambiguity, which is matched by the findings of the case study. The perception of the EU law on CSR is done differently by various CEOs of luxury fashion businesses, and there is an inconsistency between their attitudes and those of their employees facing the clientele. Such inconsistency undermines the effectiveness and efficiency of the CSR regime and needs to be corrected.1 Implications for Central European audience: Although the sustainability projected in CSR is critical, the EU law has undergone a complex and fragmented evolution leading to a partially mandatory framework. The understanding and application of such a framework about CSR and its reporting is a challenge. A Central European case study of luxury fashion industry businesses shows piecemeal trends and a lack of consent, and this even among CEOs and frontline employees of the same business. The implication of such an inconsistency is a decrease in the effectiveness and efficiency of the CSR regime, a devaluation of the CSR awareness and the need for corrections. © 2020, Economics - Prague, Faculty of Business Administration.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Central Europan Buiness Review

ISSN

1805-4862

e-ISSN

1805-4862

Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

35

Pages from-to

74-108

UT code for WoS article

000550018700005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85089489088