Social Responsibility Journal: Volume 20 Issue 5

Is there any excuse for wrongdoing? The moderating role of perceived reasons for bank irresponsibility in blame appraisal and WOM recommendations

Grzegorz Zasuwa

This study aims to outline the role of causal attributions in consumer responses to irresponsible corporate behaviour. Specifically, this paper presents a moderated mediation…

Propounding an integrated solution ecosystem to effectuate CSR in India: an alternate framework

Soumya G. Rajan

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) was mandated and institutionalised in India through the Companies Act (2013), a decade ago. It is critical to understand the priorities of…

Assessing ethics and sustainability standards in corporate practices

Walter Leal Filho, Laís Viera Trevisan, João Henrique Paulino Pires Eustachio, Izabela Simon Rampasso, Rosley Anholon, Johannes Platje, Markus Will, Federica Doni, Muhammad Mazhar, Jaluza Maria Lima Silva Borsatto, Carla Bonato Marcolin

This study aims to investigate how sustainability and ethics are being addressed both by the literature and companies. Furthermore, it seeks to identify the specific strategies…

Exploring consumers’ social media engagement in addressing plastic pollution

Shavneet Sharma, Gurmeet Singh

Plastic pollution is a major issue that plagues modern society. Scholars are interested in comprehending consumers’ behavioural actions to address plastic pollution. This study…

Stakeholder engagement during the COVID-19 crisis: perspectives from South Africa

Lindani Myeza, Marianne Kok, Yvette Lange, Warren Maroun

This study aims to examine how governing bodies demonstrated stakeholder engagement during the time of the COVID-19 crisis in South Africa.

Female unemployment and the procedure that a woman has to go through to start a business: microfinance policy thresholds

Simplice Asongu

This study aims to examine how the starting of business by females can be promoted by assessing critical levels of microfinance institutions (MFIs) penetration that policymakers…

Critical masses and voluntary climate change disclosures: evidence from Türkiye

Ozlem Kutlu Furtuna, Hilal Sönmez

This paper aims to examine the effect of critical mass of women managers on corporate boards on the voluntary disclosure of climate change in a developing country in which the…

Trade-offs in stakeholder theory: an ordonomic perspective

Ingo Pies, Vladislav Valentinov

Stakeholder theory understands business in terms of relationships among stakeholders whose interests are mainly joint but may be occasionally conflicting. In the latter case…

Impact of corporate social responsibility practices on consumer purchase intention of apparel products with mediating role of consumer-retailer love

Tak Jie Chan, Norazah Mohd Suki, Phoebe Suet Yin Ho, Muhammad Farooq Akhtar

Companies with corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices care about customers, society, the environment and workers. This study aims to examine the impact of CSR practices…

Strengthening accountability and sustainability reporting: does stakeholder engagement really work? Evidence from the judicial sector

Floriana Fusco, Pietro Pavone, Paolo Ricci

This study aims to explore to what extent stakeholder engagement affects the sustainability reporting (SR) process and if it succeeds in facilitating the encounter between demand…