Corporate Aspects Research Articles

Towards A New Framework for CSR: Renegotiating Ethics and Business in Indonesia

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) aims to mediate between business interests and local communities. It consists of social, economic, ethical and environmental dimensions. Established studies, however, indicate that the economic profit remains to be the most visible objective of CSR activities, which in turn engenders massive disaffection and resistance to the programs. This article offers a new framework for CSR through which applicable policies can be formulated to renegotiate the disintegrative aspects of corporate and community interactions in an Indonesian context. The idea encompasses both regulatory and perational principles enabling for the enlargement of the ethical component of CSR.

Researching mobile practices: participant reflection and audio-recording in Repeat Question Diaries

The Repeat Question Diary method involves research participants audio-recording many answers to a single question. This article investigates some of the features of the method that are relevant to the study of mobile practices. Particularly, the method encourages participant reflection and the paper argues that this can facilitate the study of mobile practices through enabling participants to notice and analyse previously taken-for-granted, pre-conscious, or corporeal aspects of their practices. The paper also explores the use of audio-recording in diary research and argues that audio-diaries can facilitate participant expression, particularly of emotions, and can avoid the stifling effects of self-editing in written diaries.

Beyond governance: the need to improve the regulation of international sport

Governance has been a prominent word in international sport circles since the beginning of the twenty-first century. However, better governance will not cure all the ills of this wide-ranging sector and its numerous governing bodies, many of which, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), have been shaken by corruption. This paper discusses the need for a new approach to sports governance that combines aspects of both corporate and democratic governance. It also shows that combating problems such as doping, match-fixing, hooliganism and sport corruption requires a wider international legal framework, developed through cooperation between government authorities and the sports sector. Only international regulation will ensure sport gains the improved governance it needs in order to preserve its integrity and value in the eyes of the public.

The Corporate Reputation Reporting Framework (CRRF)

Corporate reputation (CR) sciences have made way into c-level management quite rapidly in the past two decades. During the same period, numerous CR measurement techniques also emerged. This study evaluates the effectiveness and appropriateness of available models for thoroughly reporting an organization’s CR. By highlighting and rationalizing the central features of the ‘reputation’ construct, the usefulness of notable measurement approaches for thoroughly reporting CR is critiqued. The analysis reveals that most techniques deviate from theory, and in several ways fall short of incorporating online aspects of corporate (e-) reputation formation. A corporate reputation reporting framework is modeled and directed towards large-scale applicability across contexts. The proposed framework robustly integrates a variety of CR features, facilitating the creation of comprehensive CR reports and delivers insights into the urgency of adapting to digital aspects of reputation formation and management.

Does CEP Influence Corporate Value? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Enterprise

This study explores the relationship between the performance of corporate environmental protection responsibility (CEP) and corporate value. Because CEP is part of corporate social responsibility (CSR), we also investigated the impacts of other parts of CSR on corporate value. From a stakeholder perspective and with considering the unique aspects of Chinese corporations, we establish a CSR index evaluation system based on the framework of ISO26000. We subdivided the CSR index into four types: NCEPX (qualitative indices of non-CEP performance), NCEPL (quantitative indices of non-CEP performance), CEPX (qualitative indices of CEP performance), and CEPL (quantitative indices of CEP performance). We selected 122 listed manufacturing companies in mainland China to conduct CSR performance evaluations and run multiple linear fixed effect panel models. The results show that enterprises can increase corporate value by fulfilling the non-CEP, and NCEPL is more significant than NCEPX; Conversely, fulfilling CEP decreases corporate value. We also find that the coefficient of integrated CSR index is not significant.

Mobile media, domestic play and haptic ethnography

In this article, we explore the material, sensory and corporeal aspects of digital ethnography, primarily in the context of mobile media use in the domestic environment. We align our methodological approach to the ‘sensory turn’ in theory, situated loosely under the rubric of new materialism, and outline the insights that a post-phenomenological method can offer. Drawing from our current research into everyday media use conducted within Australian households, which involved a range of data collection methods aimed at capturing the embodiment of mobile media, we explore the significance of play in and around haptic interfaces. Mobile games are evidently integral to our embodied ways of knowing, and there are a number of challenges faced by the mobile media researcher who seeks to document, understand and interpret this contemporary cultural and everyday practice.

On the strategy for industrial development of Russia

The article considers the problems of industrial policy and, accordingly, the industrial development strategy from the standpoint of the challenges facing the industry, the conditions for the adoption of strategic decisions and possible answers - the key directions of state activities. The main principles and directions are analyzed: investment, foreign trade, technological policies, certain aspects of territorial planning, state corporate and social policies. Proposals on the prospective goal-setting and possible results of industrial policy have been formulated.

EXPRESSION OF LANGUAGE IN CONSTRUCTING PHYSICAL FEMININITY WRITTEN IN INDONESIAN TEEN LIT

Physical femininity is a feminine imagery pictured through the corporeal aspects. Physical femininity in Indonesian teen lit is quite dominant along with the opposition statement stated that beauty is diverse. Teenlit, to be known, is a novel that depicts the lives of adolescence around the middle to secondary school age and typically uses women characters point of view. This paper aims to describe the expression of language in constructing a physical femininity written in teen lit using critical discourse analysis. The data are in the form of linguistic units used to express the conception of physical femininity obtained from five popular Indonesian teen lit.The result of data analysis shows that there are six expressions of language for constructing physical femininity, such as the use of synonyms of beautiful, denial of the negative judgment, affirmation of the stigma, the use of diction about hair, analogy of women’s beauty using popular figure, and giving a negative connotation to the dandy. Beauty is always closely attached to the female figure. However, this concept of beauty is dynamic along with the times. The use of the word sweet, charming, quirky, and cute as the pronoun of the word pretty clearly shows that beauty is diverse. Through these various expressions, women wanted to be appreciated as she is. Therefore, women need to have a high self-confidence and need to respect themselves as well as others.

The prediction of the economic effect of the energy-saving system implementation: corporate and regional aspects

The solution of the energy-saving problem is connected with two main aspects: technical progress allowing the use of modern equipment and technologies with great efficiency; the development of an economic system which allows achieving development objectives and minimization of resource costs. In our article we are going to talk about the possibilities of formation and results evaluation when implementing energy-saving measures and we are going to present the results of the research on the interdependence of managerial impact and economic results. In this article we study an assessment method of activities at the enterprise according to the results of energy-saving measures, and we are going to present the results of the study of economic factors of their development, we are going to suggest a method for assessing the prognosis based on entropy methods. The development of a group of enterprises that produce rational results as the results of energy-saving measures of some companies taking into account synergy will allow us comment on the overall economic efficiency of the introduction of the energy-saving system in Russia as an element of social development.

WYBRANE ASPEKTY SPOŁECZNEJ (NIE)ODPO WIEDZIALNOŚ CI PRZEDSIĘBIORSTW PROD UKCYJNYCH

WYBRANE ASPEKTY SPOŁECZNEJ (NIE)ODPO WIEDZIALNOŚ CI PRZEDSIĘBIORSTW PROD UKCYJNYCH

El régimen societario de las sociedades laborales en la nueva ley 44/2015, de 14 de octubre, de sociedades laborales y participadas

La ley 44/2015, de 14 de octubre, de sociedades laborales y participadas, pretende acomodar los diversos instrumentos, límites y exigencias con los que configura el régimen jurídico de las sociedades laborales, al actual contexto socio económico y legal donde éstas deben desenvolver su actividad económica. La finalidad propuesta por la ley es preservar su especial naturaleza jurídica, a la vez que persigue modernizar su estructura jurídica, sin debilitar el perfil social que se les demanda. La nueva ley recoge dos figuras organizativas, las sociedades laborales y, las que llama sociedades participadas, de esta última, solo deja constancia de qué hay que entender por ellas remitiendo su regulación a un futuro desarrollo reglamentario. En espera de ese anunciado Reglamento, nuestro trabajo se ha ceñido al aspecto societario de las sociedades laborales analizando las modificaciones realizadas en torno a los elementos tipológicos y de régimen jurídico de estas figuras organizativas para constatar si la vigente ley es el instrumento necesario y suficiente para alcanzar el reto propuesto.

BETWEEN POISE AND POWER: EMBODIED MANLINESS IN EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH CULTURE

ABSTRACTThis paper explores representations of the manly body and the ways in which its relationship with masculine identity and embodied selfhood changed over time and class. It spans a period in which different types of masculinities were dominant, from the later eighteenth-century man of feeling to the later nineteenth-century muscular Christian, and proposes that an embodied approach offers a more nuanced consideration of the ways in which ideals of masculinity were culturally viewed and utilised. First, it provides a chronology of the manner in which the ideal manly body changed over the two centuries, demonstrating that abstract masculine values were always rooted in male bodies. Secondly, it proposes that although most idealised masculine identities were elite, attention to the more corporeal aspects of gender offers evidence that there were features of the manly body, for example hardness, that appealed across social ranks.1Elite men valorised idealised working-class men's bodies and saw in them something to emulate. Moreover, working-class men used classically inspired figures to represent themselves when formulating class and gender identities.

Identity and the body: Narrative accounts of two HIV-positive women with lipodystrophy in post-apartheid South Africa

South Africa has the highest number of HIV-positive people in the world and also boasts the most comprehensive antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme to date. Long-term ART adherence requires a range of identity negotiations in order for treatment success to materialise in the long term. However, some patients on ART develop a treatment side effect known as ‘lipodystrophy’, which is a condition that can severely undermine a person’s sense of self and identity given the bodily alterations that take place given notions of anticipated, felt or internalised stigma. In this article, we explore two women’s narratives who suffer from this side effect of ART. Their narratives are used as an ‘instrumental case study’ inasmuch as these instances provide insights into their contextual realities of being on ART in post-apartheid South Africa. Both these women are black African, have limited means and resources, and already face serious everyday challenges despite their HIV infection and lipodystrophy. We subsequently conclude that this embodied experience is a reflection of individual and social realities of multiple layers of precarity that characterise the HIV/AIDS and ART landscape in South Africa. The article also emphasises the corporeal aspects of chronic disease that has not been amply studied in the context of HIV and ART, especially in developing countries where HIV infection is disproportionately high. Moreover, studying lipodystrophy interpretatively has also been largely neglected.

Rethinking the Body and Space in Alfred Schutz’s Phenomenology of Music

What is initially striking about Alfred Schutz’s phenomenological account of the musical experience, which encompasses both the performance and reception of music, is his apparent dismissal of the corporeal and spatial aspects of that experience. The paper argues that this is largely a product of his wider understanding of temporality wherein the mind and time are privileged over the body and space, respectively. While acknowledging that Schutz’s explicit or stated view is that the body and space are relatively insignificant to his account, the paper reveals how they actually feature significantly in the latter, but in ways that remain largely implicit. First, the analysis demonstrates that the mental and temporal aspects of Schutz’s phenomenology of the musical experience cannot be considered independently of their interrelations with the equally important, albeit under-examined, corporeal, and spatial aspects. Concepts from Nietzsche’s early aesthetics are recruited to fulfil this task. Second, the analysis challenges Schutz’s dismissal of space in his theory of music perception. Lastly, it reveals the crucial, yet implicit, role of the body and space in his key examination of the intersubjective phenomenon he terms “making music together”. By presenting the above arguments, the paper aims to draw out the implicit dimensions of Schutz’s phenomenology of music and thereby enrich his influential account.

Review: Romantic Anatomies of Performance, by J. Q. Davies

Romantic Anatomies of Performance , by J. Q. Davies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2014. xiii, 265 pp. In this startlingly original and subtly written book J. Q. Davies trains his focus on a narrow slice of history—performances by virtuoso artists, in London and Paris, “around 1830”—to explore a wide range of issues concerning the corporeal, material, and tactile aspects of music and musical experience. These issues have been receiving increasing attention in musicology. From various perspectives Elizabeth LeGuin, Matthew Head, Emily Dolan, Martha Feldman, Mary Ann Smart, and Roger Moseley have been historicizing the sensory dimensions of musical experience—the immersive sensation of theater events, the frisson of sonic vibration, the performer's bond with the instrument—while also exploring the hermeneutic, social, and political implications of this sensorium. Within this trend, Davies's book stands out for its focus on the history of anatomy, physiology, and medical science, setting a new standard for ways in which musicology and the history of science can intersect. He concentrates less on the “body” as a unitary construct than on specific anatomical parts—the hands and the vocal organs—each of which was subject to intensive scientific scrutiny and debate around 1830. This date also marks seismic shifts in the history of piano playing and operatic singing, and the book's leading questions follow from this convergence. How was the experience of piano playing mediated by a new, acute …

Concepts of the Body and Personhood in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges: Interpreting Animal Remains from Human Burials

In recent years, humanities have brought forward the idea of non-human agency; either in the form of meanings bestowed upon objects, animals and natural phenomena, or through deconstruction of ontological differences between ‘people’ and ‘things’. In case of the former, it has been argued that non-human agents have the power to act as ‘participants’ in social action (e.g. the agentive power of material properties of things, or of animal behaviour). In this paper, I discuss the practice of placing animal body parts alongside human bodies in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges, by using the concept of perspectivism as a theoretical framework. The choice of species and their body parts varied, but was by no means accidental. Rather, it reflected certain culturally specific taxonomies, which were based on animal properties: how they look, move, feel or what they do. Common examples include red deer antlers, which have the power to ‘regenerate’ each year, or dog mandibles (physical remains of ‘mouths’) which have the power to ‘communicate’ (i.e. bark). The aim of the paper is to explore how various aspects of animal corporeality, associated with certain ways of seeing and experiencing the world, could be ‘borrowed’ by humans utilizing animal body parts.

They Reap but Do Not Sow: How Multinational Corporations Are Putting an End to Virtuous Capitalism

AbstractThe actions of “world‐based” multinational corporations (MNCs) have effectively decoupled the revenue generation and the production sides of the business equation. This decoupling has led to an end of “virtuous capitalism,” which has widespread ramifications for the societies within highly developed countries as well as those in developing and underdeveloped nations. This article presents an overview of the defining aspects of virtuous corporations and the linkages to virtuous capitalism. It then describes the actions of Apple Computer as emblematic of an MNC that is nonvirtuous in its practices. The article then discusses how the encouragement of globalized trade has prompted the shift away from virtuous capitalism and closes with a summary of possible actions that could reverse the decline in corporate virtue.

PESQUISAS INTERNACIONAIS RECENTES EM ESTRUTURA DE CAPITAL

A estrutura de capital ainda é um dos temas controversos em finanças corporativas e ainda propicia muitas pesquisas tanto nas teorias já amplamente discutidas como também nos diversos inter-relacionamentos com outros aspectos corporativos. O objetivo deste artigo foi de fazer uma revisão das publicações recentes que envolvam estudos sobre a estrutura de capital das empresas. A pesquisa foi focada nos últimos 3 anos, de 2011 a 2013, e nas revistas acadêmicas internacionais na área de finanças que apresentam os maiores fatores de impacto, a saber: The Review of Financial Studies, The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics e Journal of Banking & Finance. Apesar de amplamente discutidas, as diferenças entre as principais teorias sobre a estrutura de capital, a teoria do trade-off e a teoria do pecking order, ainda são pesquisadas – entretanto, talvez por ser mais recente, a teoria do equity market timing é o que mais tem sido analisado nos últimos três anos. Além desses tópicos, os pesquisadores têm tratado de muitos aspectos das variáveis corporativas que direta ou indiretamente estão associados com as decisões de estrutura de capital. Este trabalho apresenta um sumário sucinto das diversas publicações permitindo uma visão geral das pesquisas.

The Influence of Talent Factors on Business Performance

To contribute to the debate concerning performance measurement, this study investigated some talent factors that can influence business performance of Indonesian finance industry and to provide a framework by which business leaders could assess their current management capabilities.<br />Using purposive sampling, 56 finance companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2012 were selected. Corporate governance aspects were measured by employing 12 talent factors and business performance was measured using profit per employee, revenue per employee, and market capitalization per employee. 12 hypotheses were tested using multiple regression analysis. The authors concluded on 2 things. Firstly, the greater the number of audit committee members, the higher the profit per employee and secondly, higher remuneration for directors and commissioners induced better business performance, as measured by three indicators. However, larger number of employees worsens profit per employee, revenue per employee, and market capitalization per employee.<br /> <br /><br />

Feeling So Unusual: Cyndi Lauper and Queer Affect

Investigating the work of pop star Cyndi Lauper prompts new reckonings with such concepts as intensity, ecology, and mood, foundational to affect theory. This essay traces the queer force of Lauper’s music—and its relevance to renovating affect theory—through three central movements: feeling intense, feeling inside/out, and feeling brightness, darkly.