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Social Capital, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economic Behaviour and Performance

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Lorenzo Sacconi

    1. Department of Economics of Trento University, Italy
      Inter-University Centre of Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

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  2. Giacomo Degli Antoni

    1. Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
      EconomEtica, Italy

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Lorenzo Sacconi, Giacomo Degli Antoni
      Pages 1-18

  3. New Perspectives on the Economic Theory of Institutions, Individual Preferences and Social Norms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. A Plea for Unconventional Economics

      • Bruno S. Frey
      Pages 21-41

    3. A Rawlsian View of CSR and the Game Theory of its Implementation (III): Conformism, Equilibrium Refinement and Selection

      • Lorenzo Sacconi
      Pages 42-79

    4. Trustful Banking: A Psychological Game-Theoretical Model of Fiduciary Interactions in Micro-credit Programs

      • Vittorio Pelligra
      Pages 80-100

    5. The Relationship Between Competition and Trust: An Essay in an Historical and Theoretical Perspective

      • Sergio Beraldo, Gilberto Turati
      Pages 101-125

  4. Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility: a Game Theoretical and Network Analysis Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Linking Economic and Social-Exchange Games: From the Community Norm to CSR

      • Masahiko Aoki
      Pages 129-148

    3. Social Capital in Networks of Relations

      • Steffen Lippert
      Pages 149-160

    4. Modeling Cognitive Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility as Preconditions for Sustainable Networks of Relations

      • Giacomo Degli Antoni, Lorenzo Sacconi
      Pages 161-239

  5. The Economic Effect of Social Capital and Other-regarding Preferences: Experimental and Empirical Evidence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
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    2. Social Distance, Cooperation and Other-regarding Preferences: A New Approach Based on the Theory of Relational Goods

      • Leonardo Becchetti, Giacomo Degli Antoni, Marco Faillo
      Pages 243-259

    3. Generalized Trust: An Experimental Perspective

      • Gianluca Grimalda, Luigi Mittone
      Pages 260-281

    4. Testing the Distributive Effects of Social Enterprises: The Case of Italy

      • Carlo Borzaga, Sara Depedri, Ermanno Tortia
      Pages 282-303

  6. Social Capital and Sustainable Economic Development: the Macro Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-305
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    2. Social Assets, Technical Progress and Long-Run Welfare

      • Stefano Bartolini, Luigi Bonatti
      Pages 307-330

    3. Generalized Trust: The Macro Perspective

      • Martin Paldam
      Pages 331-357

    4. The Local Path to Sustainable Development: Social Capital in Naples

      • Raffaella Nanetti, Robert Leonardi, Catalina Holguin
      Pages 358-379

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 380-388
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This book focuses on the concepts of social capital, corporate social responsibility, and economic development in relation to economic theory of institutions and behavioural economics. It also takes a macroeconomic and empirical approach, on the relationship between social capital, ethical behaviour and economic development.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics of Trento University, Italy

    Lorenzo Sacconi

  • Inter-University Centre of Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

    Lorenzo Sacconi

  • Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

    Giacomo Degli Antoni

  • EconomEtica, Italy

    Giacomo Degli Antoni

About the editors

LORENZO SACCONI is Professor of Economics, Unicredit Chair in economic ethics and corporate social responsibility at the Department of Economics of Trento University, and Director of EconomEtica, Inter-University Centre of Research at the University of Milano–Bicocca, Italy.

GIACOMO DEGLI ANTONI is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano-Bicocca, and Research Fellow at EconomEtica, Italy.

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