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Reputation Risk and Corporate Social Responsibility in High-tech Companies and Their Relation to Monopolistic Patent Rights: Literature Preview

Version 1 : Received: 3 July 2023 / Approved: 4 July 2023 / Online: 4 July 2023 (10:11:23 CEST)

How to cite: Sterev, N.; Biolcheva, P.; Molhova-Vladova, M. Reputation Risk and Corporate Social Responsibility in High-tech Companies and Their Relation to Monopolistic Patent Rights: Literature Preview. Preprints 2023, 2023070193. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.0193.v1 Sterev, N.; Biolcheva, P.; Molhova-Vladova, M. Reputation Risk and Corporate Social Responsibility in High-tech Companies and Their Relation to Monopolistic Patent Rights: Literature Preview. Preprints 2023, 2023070193. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202307.0193.v1

Abstract

Without doubt, the social and environmental business impact will become more important as the governments cannot take care about these problems. Thus, launching the EU Green deal rules, World Global Sustainable Development Goals, corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and strategies are part of this global commitment. Additionally, CSR is strongly connected to the exploration of (social) market awareness and technology development and application as it focusses on social, environmental and economic business impact. The main goal of the paper is to verify that contemporary greener CSR strategies are beneficiary activity for high-tech companies because of better competitive advantages acquisition through management of corporate reputation risk and patenting innovative technologies. The structure of the paper is the next: 1. Introduction – explanation the previous researches that explore the relation: CSR strategy – high-tech company competitiveness; 2. State of art – exploring the corporate reputation and patent rights as factors in CSR strategy; 3. Patent monopoly and CSR – research the connection between reputation risks of patents rights and CSR strategy; 4. Business performance and CSR reporting – briefly research methodology is presented as some results from Bulgarian companies; 5. Discussion and conclusions – summarizing a methodology for patent rights and reputation risk management for better CSR effects.

Keywords

CSR strategy; reputation risk; patent rights; high-tech companies

Subject

Business, Economics and Management, Business and Management

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