Public Policies on CSR in Europe: Themes, Instruments, and Regional Differences

摘要: Governments, in particular Western Europe, have become increasingly active promoting and shaping CSR. The present paper conceptually empirically characterizes the public policies on CSR Europe. In a first (conceptual) step, are portrayed by distinguishing five types of policy instruments (i.e. legal, economic, informational, partnering, hybrid tools) that can be employed four fields action awareness for CSR, transparency, socially responsible investment, leading example). second (empirical) this typology is to show how EU Member States actually promote policies. empirical stocktaking provides an overview more than 200 three action. third compares status Europe Central Eastern (CEE). By means simple instrument count analysis variance (ANOVA) it shown European (particularly Anglo-Saxon Scandinavian) governments significantly CEE countries. Since these differences mirror regarding popularity as management approach concludes reinforce rather offset 'CSR gap'.