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The relevance of corporate social responsibility for a sustainable human resource management: An analysis of organizational attractiveness as a deter…
2012
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a central issue of business management in recent years. This study aims to add to the literature by pointing out the relevance of CSR for a Sustainable Human Resource Management (HRM). In particular this research investigates job seekers’ perceptions of CSR. The paper focuses on the importance of CSR with in the process of selecting potential employers by analyzing the impact of four different CSR-dimensions upon organizational attractiveness. To address this issue, a policy-capturing study was conducted. Generally the paper provides evidence that each aspect of CSR has a specific effect on organizational attraction. Referring to Sustainable …
Avaluant la responsabilitat social universitària: el cas del centre de ciències humanes, socials i agràries de la Universitat Federal de Paraiba (Bra…
2019
espanolEl presente articulo, producido a partir de un estudio de caso, aborda la cuestion de la Responsabilidad Social Universitaria (RSU) en el Brasil. Basado en una Metodologia de Evaluacion da RSU, que busca identificar las evidencias objetivas sobre las acciones desarrolladas por las instituciones de educacion superior a partir de siete indicadores de Responsabilidad Social (inclusion social; desarrollo economico y social; defensa del medio ambiente; defensa del patrimonio y memoria cultural; defensa de la produccion artistica e defensa de la produccion deportiva y salud), se analizan las acciones concretas implantadas por el Centro de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Agrarias (CCHSA) da Un…
Il diritto di recesso nelle società c.d. benefit
2020
This essay will examine legislations on benefit corporations across Europe and the US, through a focus on whether or not elections by a corporation – or any other entity – to become a social purpose corporation or to cease to be one entail the arising of a right to withdraw on dissenting shareholders. Starting with the analysis of the legal framework, which applies to operations such as conversions from a for-profit corporation to a benefit corporation or the other way around, the essay will investigate their effects on the right to withdraw of dissenting shareholders both on unincorporated business entities and on corporations.
CEO’s Letter Accompanying the Report on Corporate social Responsibility of Canadian Listed Firms: An Analysis of the Content and the Links with Some …
2016
International audience; The disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by Canadian firms is not mandatory. This provides an ideal context to describe the nature of what is being freely disclosed by large firms and to study the firms’ characteristics which lead to such disclosure. We searched all TSX listed firms to find those which disclose a CSR report accompanied by a letter from the CEO. In the end, we study 89 CEO’s letters; that is, all the firms disclosing both a CSR report and a CEO’s letter. We first looked at the nature of the elements disclosed. We classified them in 3 categories: (1) actual accomplishments in the field of CSR, (2) values and (3) future objectives. The «a…
Legislative basis for corporate social responsibility reporting
2014
Building a model of corporate social responsibility in the old industrial region(in the case of Upper Silesia): a sociological perspective
2009
PurposeCorporate 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 many companies (especially transnational corporations and multinational companies) and in the European Union and its policy. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze how CSR exists in a transitional country and region – the Upper Silesian Industrial District and the Rybnik Coalmine Area in Southern Poland.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative and quantitative methodology was used to summarize the sociological research among entrepreneurs and businesses located throughout the region.FindingsThis researc…
CAUSE RELATED MARKETING – TRUE HEART-FELT CORPORATE BENEVOLENCE?
2011
Nowadays, globally, consumers’ expectations have reached a new high, as they expect companies to act responsibly in changing the world. More than often these expectations are not met solely out of the kindness and generosity of corporations, but they are mixed in with corporate social responsibility programs and cause-related marketing. Consumers want more of the products and services they buy to support worthy social and environmental issues.
CSR Strategies in Emerging Markets
2016
The purpose of the chapter is to emphasize on the roles of businesses – as an effective (sustainable) development agent in emerging markets, on one hand, and of their CSR strategies – as an efficient sustainable development tool, on the other hand, in order to identify valuable business practices able to lead the emerging markets towards sustainability – through socially responsible decision making processes at business level. Having in the fore-ground the ideas of sustainability (which basically is a macro-economic concern) and responsibility (and especially its micro-economic correspondent that usually embraces the form of CSR), it will try to discover the general and specific features of…
Constitució d'una comunitat social d'investigació amb persones majors des de la responsabilitat social universitària = Constitution of a Social Resea…
2012
Es presenta com s'ha constituït una comunitat social d'investigació (CSI) amb 48 persones majors institucionalitzades des de la responsabilitat social universitària (RSU) i des d'una perspectiva humanista. En aquesta CSI es va valorar el benestar psicològic de les persones institucionalitzades amb mètodes quantitatius i qualitatius, i amb una proposta d'investigació-acció participativa (IAP). S'inicia, així, un procés d'innovació epistemològica, amb escassos antecedents, a l'hora d'investigar i entendre el benestar de les persones majors. Aquesta primera experiència de la CSI aporta observacions sobre els canvis de les dimensions del benestar de Ryff durant el procés d'envelliment dins de l…
Conductes prosocials i responsabilitat social universitària: a la recerca d’un cercle virtuós?
2019
espanolAnte un contexto social con dificultades asociadas a altos indicadores de violencia, se efectua una revision bibliografica de articulos publicados hasta el ano 2017, con las palabras clave conducta prosocial, programas de intervencion y responsabilidad social a fin de reflexionar respecto de la relacion entre el desarrollo de conductas prosociales y la responsabililidad dad social universitaria (RSU). Lo anterior ha permitido plantear la posibilidad de circulos virtuosos que junto con favorecer la prosocialidad en futuros universitarios, propicie que adultos formados en rsu favorezcan contextos de desarrollo prosociales para futuras generaciones. catalaDavant d’un context social amb …