Carole Biau

Bio: Carole Biau is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate social responsibility & Multinational corporation. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 3 citations.

The ‘Governance Gap’, or missing links in transnational chains of accountability for extractive industry investment

Abstract: This article seeks to address the urgent need for emerging-market economies to more firmly tackle the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of their overseas enterprises in Africa. Focusing on Africa's mining sector, it analyses complementarities among: international guidelines for multinational enterprises (Section 2); domestic management norms from countries of origin (Section 3); and African countries’ legal frameworks for CSR (Section 4). Three emerging-market countries are investigated (China, India and South Africa), while Canada – a ‘traditional’ investor long engaged in mining in Africa – is used as a ‘benchmark’ for assessing whether the CSR characteristics of emerging-market companies differ from those of more ‘experienced’ investors. The article has two aims. First, to build toward a framework that could help emerging-market investors engage in mutual learning and systemize their CSR approaches in accordance with African host government requirements. And secondly, to shed light on the chains of...

A systematic review of literature about finance and sustainability

Abstract: The relationship between finance and environmental sustainability areas has increasingly been attracting the attention of researchers and professionals in this field. However, there are not many studies that gather and systematize the available knowledge about the issue of financial management and the concern with sustainable development. The objective of this paper is to present the results or main gaps from a systematic review of literature about the relationship between finance and sustainability. We have adapted the methods presented by Lage Junior et al. [2010. “Variations of the Kanban System: Literature Review and Classification”.International Journal of Production Economics 125 (1), 13–21.], Jabbour [2013. Environmental Training in Organisations: From a Literature Review to a Framework for Future Research. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 74, 144–155] and Seuring [2013. A Review of Modeling Approaches for Sustainable Supply Chain Management. Decision Support Systems 54 (4), 1513–1520]...

Chinese NGO–Firm Partnerships and CSR from an Institutional Perspective

Abstract: NGO–firm partnerships have been well studied in the literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR) (Marano and Tashman 2012; Dahan et al. 2010; Oetzel and Doh 2009). However, these studies have generally limited their focus to Western multinationals and Western NGOs and, moreover, not by-and-large examine in depth the institutional settings under which either the firm or the NGO operates Building on recent institutional approaches to CSR (Brammer, Jackson, and Matten 2012; Kang and Moon 2012; Matten and Moon 2008), this paper examines how the institutional dynamics of several partnerships between Chinese firms and NGOs affect the manifestation of CSR (e.g. “implicit” vs. “explicit”). The paper also looks into how CSR and NGO–firm collaboration plays out within a changing state-corporatist framework in Chinese context (Unger and Chan 1995, 2008; Hsu and Hasmath forthcoming). The paper then argues 1) that the involvement of an NGO in the partnership reflects a changing institutional setting in China, and 2) that type and level of involvement of Chinese government institutions affects whether a given firm takes an “implicit” or an “explicit” approach to CSR.