Social Responsibility Journal: Volume 2 Issue 1

Editorial

David Crowther

The range of topics covered in this issue remains as wide as in previous issues, continuing to demonstrate the diversity of the field and the extent of interest there is in social…

Governance Reform And The Changes In Legislation On Corporate Control In China

Lan Jiang

Following China entered the World Trade Organisation in November 2001, attention has been paid worldwide to the current Chinese legal system, political policies, and the…

ICT and Distance Education : Critiquing Modes And ‘Limitations’

Ananya S Guha

Technology enables people to enhance the quality of lives, it undeniably improves the standards of living, and it calls for better, speedier and effective communication…

Leaders or Followers?

Elizabeth Bruce

The provision of social and environmental information has been at the discretion of the company and its directors. The complaint has been that this gives the company and its…

The Irish Carbon Tax: A Lost Opportunity?

Margery Stapleton, Helena Lenihan, Sheila Killian, Breda O'Sullivan, Kemmy Business

Under the Kyoto Protocol Ireland is committed to ensuring that its greenhouse gas emission levels are at or below 113 per cent of 1990 levels for the years 2008–2012. Irish…

Appendix A Department of Finance Press Release, September 10th, 2004. McCreevy Abandons Carbon Tax

The Minister for Finance, Mr Charlie McCreevy, T.D., announced today (10 September, 2004) that the Government has concluded its examination of carbon energy tax proposals and has…

“It was horrid, very very horrid”: a student perspective on coming to an inner‐city university in the UK

Debbie Holley, Sandra Sinfield, Tom Burns

In the United Kingdom Higher Education is propelled by Government policy and monitored by university recruitment, retention and teaching and learning strategies — and yet when…

New Urban Poverty as a Social Responsibility Field and Municialities

Berkan Demiral, Nalan Demiral

Poverty has been an important social problem from the beginning of humanity and will be till the end of the world. But the rapid change in technology took away the capability of…

Shareholders fight for corporate control: Case studies from Poland

Maria Aluchna

The paper refers to the development process of corporate governance and shareholder activism in transition economies. It identifies the existing corporate governance structure as…

Programme Aid Partners in Mozambique: a textual analysis

Miriam Green, Tom Burns

The social, economic and political context of African societies in the wake of various European intrusions has set the scene for post‐independent western‐African relationships…

Corporate Social Responsibility at a Multinational Electricity Corporation: A Longitudinal Case Study

Bernabé Escobar Pérez, José María González González

There is a traditional discrepancy in the specialized literature on how the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) should be understood. Additionally, there is a further…

Customer Relationship Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility: Not just ethical standpoints or business strategies

Diana Luck

Customer Relationship Marketing has been described as a concept that not only relates to sales, marketing and services automation, but also increasingly embraces…

Has Environmental Investment a Marketing Effect in Turkish Banking Industry?

Caner Dincer, Banu Dincer

The increase in environmental consciousness around the world since 1970's pushed firms to engage in socially responsible behaviors. The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has…

Malaysian Corporate Responsibility Disclosure: Miscommunication Between Providers and Users of Information?

Mustaffa Mohamed Zain, Rashidah Mohammad, Mohd Rashidee Alwi

As concerns for accountability, social responsibility and the environment grow, users of the financial reports expect more social information to be included in the financial…

Reaching the true nature of organizations: human and social finalities

Ana Maria Davila Gomez, David Crowther

Why do organizations exist? Which is their true nature? Why are the majority of our actual organizations exclusively aiming at financial growth and disregarding the needs of…

CSR: Where is the Love?

Julia J.A. Shaw

As fully‐socialised beings, all human experience is characterised by communication and primarily facilitated by language. Every society seeks legitimation for its ideologies and…

Call for papers A Special Issue of Social Responsibility Journal Social Responsibility in Latin America

Over the last decade the question of the relationship between organisations and society has been subject to much debate, often of a critical nature. The decade has seen protests…