Search results for "Social responsibility"

The Role of Financial and Managerial Variables on the Policy towards Home-grown Players in English Soccer

2012

The training and development of young players both as athletes and individuals is one of the task soccer governing bodies assign to professional soccer team in order to fully exploit the social aspects of sport activities. Recently UEFA imposed new rules to improve the use of home-grown players. We analyze a panel data of English Premier and Championship league clubs for the seasons 2001-02 to 2005-06 in order to understand what clubs characteristics lead to the employment of young players in the team during official matches. Sport commercialization and the employment of star players have been considered harmful to this role. Our findings suggest that, counter-intuitively, economic and comm…

Ethical Ratings: A Systematic Analysis Oriented to Business Economics

2013

Abstract In a previous study we have researched the causes of the current global crisis, which manifests itself in financial terms, but whose origin is due to the ethical model of reference. Following these ethical issues, the aims and topics of the present paper are: producing a systematic analysis of the ethical indicators used in the current international practices; extrapolating the ethical ranking models with a high relevance in Business Economics and highlighting the strong limits of the methodology in current use.

Financial crisis impact on sustainability reporting

2013

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on the effect of the current financial crisis on corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting and CSR assurance strategies that companies disclose online to stakeholders, by dividing the time horizon into two periods, before 2008 and from 2008. Design/methodology/approach – The sample includes Spanish listed companies, differentiating CSR reporters from non CSR-reporters. Also distinguished in the CSR-reporters sample, are those companies that assure the CSR report from those that do not. The authors contrast whether there is a trend as regards CSR reporting and CSR assurance, depending on whether the crisis has already begun or …

The effects of perceived CSR and ecological awareness on purchase decisions in Poland

2017

Recognizing definitive stakeholders in corporate environmental management

2010

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present four examples of stakeholder relationships related to issues of corporate environmental management (CEM) and analyze them based on the model of Mitchell et al. (1997).Design/methodology/approachSecondary data are used in the case studies.FindingsThe four cases presented show that basically any stakeholder can become definitive over time in the complex network of stakeholders with mutual relationships. The definitive stakeholders in CEM are no longer merely the NGOs and policymakers but now include many diverse groups such as customers, locals and suppliers.Research limitations/implicationsThese case studies cannot be generalized, but they could…

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: THE ITALIAN CASE WITHIN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

2013

This study offers an Italian perspective of the theme of social responsibility and social reporting. Although it is a widely explored field of accounting research, we focus our attention on the Italian case because we believe that this would be the very first step for a broader research that underlines the significant differences between countries which requires exploring different backgrounds and cultures. This study therefore seeks to: (1) Describe the concept of social responsibility regarding the Italian doctrine, in particular in the Public Administration field; (2) Analyze the characteristics of social reporting in two areas of the public administration which operate in the Italian co…

RELIGIOUS CONSIDERATIONS OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

2020

Debate about the ways of limiting negative consequences of organization functioning is going. Among them corporate social responsibility is indicated. Today’s and tomorrow’s managers should have positive orientation to such practices. Then, a lot of attempts were made to identify factors connected with attitudes towards corporate social responsibility. While, among such factors very rarely religiosity was taken into accout. In the article an attempt to identify relation between level of religiosity and attitudes towars corporate social responsibility was made. For this purpose, scales based on multidimensional understanding of religiosity were used. Besides research was made in Poland, wher…

ÉTICA DE LA EMPRESA DEPORTIVA: ¿UTOPIA O NECESIDAD?

2020

The modern sport has become a spectacle sport that attracts masses eager for sporting events. In this way, the sport becomes a profitable business capable of generating large economic income that enrich elite athletes, as well as sports businessmen.In this article I propose an ethics of the sports company, as part of the ethics applied to sport, that you see the positive side a commercialization, discarding the negative and that enhances the social responsibility of the sports company in a globalized context.

Before and after: employees' views on corporate social responsibility: energy‐sector stakeholders in Nordic post‐merger integration

2009

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to describe and qualitatively explain certain observations concerning corporate social responsibility from the personnel standpoint with special reference to various stakeholders.Design/methodology/approachThe observations were made in connection with earlier studies on organizational change. The paper draws on stakeholder thinking and offers a view regarding the way employees perceive business issues concerning CSR in relation to corporate stakeholder groups. Should a business give priority to the interests of its owners or take all stakeholder groups equally into account? How do employees see their own relations with other stakeholder groups, and do their v…

La rendición de cuentas y responsabilidad social en los gobiernos centrales: Alianza del Pacífico

2021

Este artículo tiene como objetivo describir la información que divulgan los gobiernos centrales de los países de la Alianza del Pacifico (AP), y los roles que estos asumieron en la promoción de la Responsabilidad Social (RS) mediante los informes de rendición de cuentas que fueron presentados por los presidentes de gobierno en el año 2017. El estudio se realizó mediante la técnica de análisis de contenido, utilizando como criterio de clasificación las categorías y los aspectos definidos en las guías para la presentación de informes de sostenibilidad del Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) relacionados con el sector público. Se concluye que los gobiernos centrales divulgan información relacion…