Perspective Of Social Responsibility Research Articles

Partner Selection of Green Supply Chain Based on Corporate Social Responsibility

Partnership is the successful implementation of green supply chain management. Now, supply chain partnership is becoming worse and worse because of the lack of corporate social responsibility (CSR). In order to optimize the supply chain partnership, we study the partner selection from the perspective of corporate social responsibility. We construct a payoff matrix of leading companies and cooperative companies in supply chain, and analyze the game relationship between partner selection of supply chain and fulfilment of corporate social responsibility. Our findings show that partner selection depends on the fulfilment level of corporate social responsibility, and leading companies prefer to cooperate with companies with a high degree of social responsibility in green supply chain. Furthermore, the successful establishment of cooperation can encourage companies to fulfil social responsibility consciously. These findings provide support for green supply chain management in the areas of partner selection, harmonious relationship establishment, and social responsibility fulfillment.

Governance of sustainable supply chains in the fast fashion industry

This paper examines the impact of corporate social responsibility behavior on the sustainability performance of focal companies and their partners in fast fashion supply chains. The attributes of sustainability and the mechanism of sustainability governance of the fast fashion supply chain are also discussed. From the perspective of strategic corporate social responsibility, we first analyze the motives for adopting sustainability governance in fast fashion supply chains, and identify seven competitive sustainable attributes of the fast fashion product based on sustainable development theory. Then, by establishing a sustainability governance framework, we identify seven factors that affect the sustainability governance decision-making and evaluate the efficiency and legitimacy mechanism of sustainability governance from internal and external perspectives. Finally, we explore the application of the governance mechanisms via a case study based on H&M’s seven sustainability commitments. The findings suggest that the core influence and centrality of a corporation should be strengthened from the perspective of internal governance, and stakeholders should collaborate to achieve sustainability governance throughout the entire fast fashion supply chain from the perspective of external governance.

Teleconference Use among Office Workers: An Interorganizational Comparison of an Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Model

From a corporate social responsibility perspective, there are many reasons to promote teleconference use as an alternative to business travel. The present study examines psychosocial and organizational factors relevant to teleconference use. We tested an extended Theory of Planned Behavior model of teleconference use among office workers of four organizations. Results indicate that intention was the strongest direct predictor of teleconference use. Habit and perceived norm, in turn, were the strongest predictors of intention to use teleconference. In contrast, attitude was only weakly predictive and perceived control not predictive at all of intention to use teleconference. We also examined how this model was influenced by the organizational context by comparing organizations from two different regions, and organizations from the private vs. the public sector. Most teleconference-related beliefs differed between regions and organizational sectors. The relevance of specific attitudinal and normative beliefs to the overall attitude and perceived norm also differed between organizational sectors. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.

Analysis of stakeholder perceptions in the beverage industry with reference to CSR dynamics in Mexico

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has rapidly become a determining factor in stakeholders’ purchase decision-making. It is those firms that are dynamic in CSR that are appealing to stakeholders’ needs and wants; however, firms that engage in less than ethical practices have increasingly become notable. The beverage industry in Mexico has the potential to fully address social issues through corporate social responsibility and, as it is elemental to the achievement of CSR objectives, stakeholders’ perspectives of such industry’s actions may define if corporate social responsibility is a determining factor in preferences, purchase decision-making and switching behaviour. This study contributes to the understanding stakeholders’ perspectives of corporate social responsibility and its potential influence on consumer behaviour, in an emerging market.

Research on Environmental Protection from the Perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility

Man, Society and Environment have mutual relationship. Nature and society are interdependent and duty of man to protect them is inherent. It has become common expectation of the whole people to pursue benefit and promote sustainable development between enterprise and society. However, some enterprises stress the nature of enterprise for pursuing profits excessively, not considering the interaction between enterprise and society, denying corporate social responsibility for environmental protection. This article examines the concept of corporate social responsibility of environmental protection, the relations between corporate social responsibility and environmental protection. Finally, the countermeasures for enterprises to undertake responsibility of environmental protection are put forward.

Of discourses, stakeholders and advocacy coalitions in media policy: Tracing negotiations towards the new management contract of Flemish public broadcaster VRT

Taking the run-up to the 2012–2016 management contract between Flemish public service broadcaster VRT and the Flemish government as a case study, this article analyses the role of the digital technology argument in debates and negotiations regarding the position of public service broadcasting (PSB) in the era of media convergence. It discusses the outcome of the 2011 contract negotiations as the result of the relative position and impact of different actors by means of a stakeholder analysis and advocacy coalition framework. Results suggest, first, that beneath surface discussions about PSB and new media are economic arguments and logics. They show, second, that two advocacy coalitions can be identified and that the negotiations’ outcome reflects a rupture of ties in the advocacy coalition between right-wing political parties and private media companies, favouring a market failure perspective, to the benefit of the advocacy coalition promoting the social responsibility perspective, reflected in the eventual 2012–2016 management contract.

The Importance of Understanding the Stakeholders in Industry Actions - A Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective

A great pressure has arisen lately in the business world by movements like occupy Wall Street, or more concerning economic crises started in 2008. Due to this pressure, companies have to be more careful and act more responsibly. In the recent years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been seen like a panacea of all stakeholders problems, more and more reports of CSR being published on companies website. However, it has been proven that just to claim actions of social responsibility, does not mean those companies are truly responsible. As expected, this behavior is penalized by a part of stakeholders. In this context, for each firm is important to know which are the most representative stakeholders, and how a certain situation could affect this scale. For explaining this fact, this paper analyzes the case of Brent Spar, pointing how an industrial giant like Shell, using a wrong CSR policy, could lose both money and image capital. In order to do that, in the first part is discussed the CSR from the perspective of stakeholder theory. Although it is present since 1950s in the United States of America and evolved all over the world like an all known concept, CSR does not have yet an universally accepted definition. Therefore, in this article was stated a definition for CSR from the stakeholder theory approach, in order to understand the Brent Spar actions and implications. In the second part of the paper are analyzed the steps taken by both sides, on one hand by Shell and on the other, by some of the stakeholders. The actions have been explained from the CSR paradigm perspective. Finally, it is proved why Brent Spar is a case of CSR failed, and how, by neglecting of some stakeholders categories, a company could pay important costs. Moreover, the paper demonstrates that the image of one company, from a specific area, could affect the all industry field. Therefore, a proper identification of key stakeholders, a good communication with those and flexibility in decision, could be the success factors for companies, and may lead to successful CSR. Correct CSR actions become an imperative in nowadays industrial scenario, being viewed as a change imposed by globalization and by the transnational nature of CSR.

Cable TV, Public Education, AZT, And A Shared Pond: Three Case Incidents In Government, Business And Ethics

This submission consists of three case incidents or vignettes with a focus on decisions rather than details. The paper includes original cases, case questions and reviews of those questions for the instructor. The common perspective of government, business and social responsibility unites these cases. The first case begins with the cable TV industry and ends with public education. It examines the relationship between government and business in these two distinct environments. The second case concerns Burroughs-Wellcome and its pricing of the anti-aids drug AZT. Protesters complained that the price of the drug was too high for many people to afford and picketed the company, which insisted that it was only doing its job and making a profit. The third case is an environmental case which serves as a platform to investigate the relation between government and business in a commons situation.

Explore Performance Evaluation System of Coal Enterprises from the Perspective of Social Responsibility

China's coal enterprises attach great importance to the sustainable development strategy, they also enhance the consciousness of corporate social responsibility, however, performance evaluation management at present has not yet been formed a set of evaluation index system which reflects corporate performance and the coordinated and sustainable development of the environment. Based on this, this paper summarized scholars theory on enterprise performance evaluation and built a coal enterprise performance evaluation system from the perspective of social responsibility; And using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to determine the weight of evaluation; And using comprehensive evaluation to analyze index system, which shows that the firm's ability to decrease cost and increase efficiency in the industry are relatively poor, and the score of noise intensity, green area and solid waste emissions is not good.

Study on the Enterprise Internal Control from the Perspective of Social Responsibility

Study on the Enterprise Internal Control from the Perspective of Social Responsibility

Firm–Employee Relationships from a Social Responsibility Perspective: Developments from Communist Thinking to Market Ideology in Romania. A Mass Media Story

Firm–employee relationships are dependent on the wider societal context and on the role business plays in society. Changes in institutional arrangements in society affect the perceived responsibilities of firms to their personnel. In this study, we examine mass media discussions about firm–employee relationships from a social responsibility perspective via a longitudinal study in Romanian society. Our analysis indicates how the expected responsibilities of firms towards employees have altered with the changing role of firms in society since the early 1990s. These transformations correspond to the ideological developments, from communist to market-based thinking, which have taken place in post-communist Eastern Europe. More specifically, our study shows how the diminishing expectations of corporate social responsibility (CSR) are linked in mass media to increasingly important talk of human resource management (HRM). HRM is a modern business approach believed to address personnel needs and organisational objectives simultaneously. The congruency of goals in HRM may mistakenly lead to the conclusion that organisations are inherently responsible toward their personnel. We argue that this may not necessarily be the case. HRM, matching well the new free-market ideology in post-communist Eastern Europe, was eagerly embraced in that it defined firm–personnel relationships. In this study, we question whether this was an adequate theoretical perspective for Romanian firms to adopt as it lacks sufficient ethical grounding. We also call for a higher awareness concerning the role of mass media in the management literature, since its current role in constructing the ‘rightness’ and ‘wrongness’ in firm–personnel relationships is hardly considered.

Sustainable Corporate Entrepreneurship from a Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective

This paper explores the process of sustainable entrepreneurship from the perspective of strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR). Drawing on insights from entrepreneurship studies that focus on opportunity creation and enactment, along with the extant literature on CSR, the authors propose a conceptual framework for sustainable entrepreneurship that combines an entrepreneurial approach with sustainability. The authors suggest that sustainability should be embedded in the business operations of companies and that sustainable business practices should be driven by an entrepreneurial approach in order to create shared value – that is, value for the business as well as for society. Shared value creation is the outcome of sustainable corporate entrepreneurship.

Influential Factors and Strategy of Sustainable Product Development under Corporate Social Responsibility in Taiwan

This study aimed to adopt the perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to explore the intention of sustainable product development in Taiwan, as well as leading to the creation of influential factors that affect corporate sustainable product development intention. In this research, the induction analysis was conducted to understand the implementation of sustainable product development, and this was supplemented with questionnaire surveys and in-depth interviews to evaluate developmental intention. In addition, principal component analysis was used for factor analysis and content analysis in the 6 W expression method, leading to the creation of the influential factors. The research results have demonstrated that the factors affecting the intention of corporate sustainable product development include having a sustainable design and a development purpose, a corporate development purpose, sustainable development concepts, a sustainable design value, a sustainability concept, and a manufacturing process quality. For sustainable product development, corporate social responsibility needs to be most concerned with the added value of products, regulation requirements, and accommodation of the industrial chain, costs, and quality.

Contabilidad: responsabilidad social - gestión humana

El documento presenta algunos elementos de análisis sobre la forma en que las empresas asumen la responsabilidad social. De la manera como se asume la responsabilidad social, depende, en buena medida, la gestión humana. Así mismo, se plantean algunos de los modelos que se han hecho presentes en la literatura sobre la “medición” del talento humano y, también, se plantea la reflexión a partir de la investigación realizada en términos de la relación de la contabilidad con la gestión humana en la perspectiva interna de la responsabilidad social

The Political Perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Critical Research Agenda

ABSTRACT:I here advance a critical research agenda for the political perspective of corporate social responsibility (Political CSR). I argue that whilst the ‘Political’ CSR literature is notable for both its conceptual novelty and practical importance, its development has been hamstrung by four ambiguities, conflations and/or oversights. More positively, I argue that ‘Political’ CSR should be conceived as one potentialformof globalization, and not as aconsequenceof ‘globalization’; that contemporary Western MNCs should be presumed to engage in CSR for instrumental reasons; that ‘Political’ CSR should be associated with a corresponding ‘political’ model of corporate governance; and that both a ‘Rawlsian’ and ‘Habermasian’ perspective of Political CSR are different from ‘Political’ CSR. In concluding, I use these four critiques to identify a number of areas within which increasingly robust and sophisticated positive and normative theories of Political CSR are required.

Applying fuzzy and grey theory to multi-criteria decision-making model for supplier selection: A corporate social responsibility perspective

This research combined fuzzy and grey theories to develop a multi-criteria decision-making model to deal with problems regarding supplier selection. Prior research on supplier selection mainly focused on suppliers’ capabilities from the perspective of manufacturers; however, with the increasing attention paid to corporate social responsibility, in addition to capabilities, supplier’s corporate social responsibility should be taken into consideration for selection. In the process of supplier selection, the fuzzy theory was adopted to deal with assessment items which involve subjectivity and uncertainty. Moreover, manufacturers often encountered a common difficulty of information insufficiency, so they used only a limited set of criteria to conduct assessment; to tackle information shortage, we adopted grey relational analysis of the grey theory. As a result, this research utilized a combination of fuzzy and grey theories to develop an easier, fairer and more practical method for companies to decide on appropriate suppliers. This paper provided a detailed description of selection procedures and demonstrated it with a simulated case. Key words: Supplier, selection, fuzzy theory, grey theory, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM).

Surveying Employee Attitudes on Corporate Social Responsibility at the Frontline Level of an Energy Transportation Company

AbstractAs large companies embrace and integrate the principles of corporate social responsibility (CSR) into their business practices, company personnel are expected to show actions that are connected to communicated corporate values and related policies. To enhance the likelihood that employees at the frontline level will accept these principles and become engaged with these values, it is in the firm's best interests to quantify and understand employee attitudes toward the social responsibility construct itself.The present work considers whether the variables of work climate perception, education level, and age directly influence one's social responsibility perspective at work, extending the Marz model to understand what may impact frontline CSR attitudes. A case study is presented, based on a survey of frontline personnel employed by a North American energy transportation company. This investigation uses an updated survey tool and method for polling a sample population. Survey development is described, analysis methods are explained, and results are presented with statistical measures to verify hypotheses related to employee engagement in CSR. Some potential implications of the results for corporate strategy are discussed. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

30% Women on Boards: New Law in the Netherlands

The lack of upward mobility for women is an issue in many European countries. Gender segregation in the labor market, including the failure to promote women to senior posts, is one of the subjects addressed in a new act that will become effective mid 2012 in the Netherlands. The Act will amend Dutch corporate law. It requires large companies to have 'gender balanced' boards, comprising at least 30 percent women and 30 percent men. This article elaborates on the Act's legislative history, content, application and enforcement possibilities. It puts it in the perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and of gender equality as a human right as promoted in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Finally, the article compares the Act's provisions with the Dutch Corporate Governance Code because the latter also contains provisions on gender in board composition.

Social responsibility practices and evaluation of corporate social performance

This paper develops an empirical procedure for measuring Corporate Social Performance (CSP) in firms, from the opinions of a group of firm managers concerning their perception of the importance of different aspects of appropriate business management from a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) perspective. The methodology is based on the model presented by Carroll (1979), considering the different interdisciplinary dimensions contemplated by CSR. The survey results are used to construct a second order factorial model that enables us to measure and evaluate firms' CSR considering the concept's different dimensions. The model enables us to globally measure firms' CSP by integrating its different dimensions and learning specific details of the variables involved and their relationships, and could be a useful guide for corporations willing to objectively implement sustainability management. We apply the procedure to evaluate the behaviour of a sample of 416 Spanish firms. Our results suggest that there is a positive relationship between firms' CSP and aspects such as size, degree of CSR awareness and stakeholder pressure. Therefore, in order to increase the degree of CSR implantation in Spanish firms, specific lines of action aimed at increasing the level of awareness of CSR practices should be addressed, particularly at small firms.

Business process outsourcing industry in India: Additional benefits of a CSR approach

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is a relatively recent phenomenon in India, emergent in the early 1990s, but today it is one of India's fastest-growing industries, attracting many international and local companies and entrepreneurs. It is no exaggeration to say that the BPO industry has made significant contributions toward alleviating Indian unemployment. However, the industry has also witnessed significant problems during its rapid growth. Paramount among these is the issue of psychological contract and its impact on employees’ motivation. Preliminary studies have indicated a significant amount of worker exploitation in India's BPO industry. A number of studies have looked at the problem, but few to our knowledge have incorporated a corporate social responsibility (CSR) perspective, pointing out benefits that could accrue to companies (and indeed society at large) adopting this approach. The objective of the present research is to address that gap, to enhance knowledge of these issues in the Indian environment and to show how a CSR approach to the analysis of the problem of psychological contract and its impact on employee motivation can offer benefits to employers in India.