Social Responsibility Journal: Volume 5 Issue 1

Organizational culture and CSR: an exploratory study of Estonian service organizations

This paper sets out to investigate the effect of organizational culture on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in service companies in Estonia. CSR is defined here as a concept…

CSR as a tool to fight against poverty: the case of Mauritius

The primary aim of this paper is to analyse the contribution made by business organisations in the fight against poverty in Mauritius. Whereas on one side businesses are…

Status and direction of corporate social responsibility in Indian perspective: an exploratory study

The specific objectives of the study are to examine the contribution of center and state governments in social sector development and to demonstrate the strong sense of corporate…

Corporate social responsibility in Poland: the Responsible Business Forum 2002‐2007 report perspective

The purpose of this paper is to show the approach to the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Poland. It also intends to characterize the process of the…

Building a model of corporate social responsibility in the old industrial region(in the case of Upper Silesia): a sociological perspective

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is one of the most crucial phenomena of global capitalism at the beginning of the twenty‐first century. For this reason it is emphasized by…

Corruption and economic growth in some selected transitional economies

The general objective of the paper is to investigate the impact of corruption and other institutional factors on economic growth in some selected transitional economies for the…

Contribution on the analysis of the environmental disclosure: a comparative study of American and European multinationals

This research aims to compare the environmental information that is disclosed in the annual reports of the American and European multinational companies. Eventually, it also aims…

Corporate governance and law‐role of independent directors: theory and practice in India

The paper seeks to bring focus to the significance of the role of directors in corporate performance. The principles of good governance are not unknown to the Indian traditions…

The forgotten managing agency system: a nineteenth century model of Indian corporate governance

The purpose of this paper is to show that there did exist a typical “managing agency system” in pre‐independent corporate India, which itself was a significant and powerful system…

Implementation of best practice code: practical implications from the Warsaw Stock Exchange

The purpose of this paper is to present the best practice initiative in Poland, presenting codes formulated in 2002 and 2005 and focusing on the recent document known asBest…

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