Few topics engage the public as much as the social responsibility of companies. Whether it's a renowned major bank laying off employees en masse despite record profits, or a drugstore chain systematically spying on its staff, social and environmental standards as part of corporate social responsibility have increasingly become the subject of discussion in academia, business practice, politics, and the media in recent years, and are professionally discussed as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The starting point of Mathias Ebel's study was, alongside the public debate, the corporate policies of two companies from Darmstadt, whose social engagement could not be more different: on one side, the oldest pharmaceutical-chemical company in the world, which, in addition to its extensive sponsorship activities, even has its own...