Corporate Spatial Responsibility and Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract

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Family Business and Regional Development

“…These predecessors locate CSR principles at particular spatial scales (Werna et al, 2009), whereas CSpR attempts to cover cases within any spatial context and any spatial process. Furthermore, existing disciplines tend to vary in their respective areas of focus, including the revitalization of the built environment (Albers, 2011), enhancing community life (Bürcher & Mayer, 2018) or fostering sustainable urban development (Suwala & Albers, 2020).…”

“…Cultural buildings sponsored by family firms are used to brand city centers (e.g., the Kunsthalle Weishaupt in Ulm, the Museum Barberini in Potsdam [Hasso Plattner, SAP] or the Knauff Museum in Iphofen). All these projects are based on a strong site solidarity of the CEOs or family members (with a prolonged locational entanglement) and have similar expressions in countries outside Germany (Albers, 2011;Suwala & Albers, 2020).…”

“…This chapter attempts to analyze this phenomenon by offering a unique perspective on urban and regional engagement as it is driven by family firms. It does so by connecting two evolving discourses: On the one hand, on spatial distributions and characteristics of family firms Basco & Suwala, 2020a, b), and on the other hand, on corporate spatial responsibilities (CSpR) -a spatial expansion of the well-known corporate social responsibility phenomenon (Albers, 2011;Knieling, Othengrafen, & Preising, 2012;Albers & Suwala, 2018;Albers & Suwala, 2020a;Suwala & Albers, 2020). This chapter summarizes selected existing case studies of such family firm-driven urban and regional engagement from literature and asks how (forms) and to what extent (their spatial impact/intensity) family firms implement CSpR initiatives.…”