Comparative Perspectives on Global Corporate Social Responsibility

Comparative Perspectives on Global Corporate Social Responsibility

Dima Jamali

Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 367

ISBN13: 9781522507208|ISBN10: 1522507205|EISBN13: 9781522507215

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0720-8

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In the modern era, businesses have developed a complex relationship with the society surrounding them. While the effects of business activity are clearly seen, their direct impact varies from country to country.

Comparative Perspectives on Global Corporate Social Responsibility is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the accountability contemporary businesses face for the environmental, social, and economic impacts that they create. Highlighting the variant expressions between developed and developing countries, this book is ideally designed for graduate students, professionals, practitioners, and academicians interested in furthering their knowledge on corporate social responsibility.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage (ABSCA) Book Series

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Defining Corporate Social Responsibility for Developing and Developed Countries: Comparing Proposed Approaches (pages 1-27)

Duane Windsor

This chapter proposes a conceptual framework for comparing enterprise and governmental approaches to corporate social responsibility (CSR) for developed and developing countries. An enterprise approach is voluntary. A governmental...

Chapter 2

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in China: A Contextual Exploration (pages 28-48)

D. Kirk Davidson, Juelin Yin

Despite a growing recognition of national contexts in predicting the dynamics of corporate social responsibility (CSR), the limited prior research has failed to disaggregate national institutions to specify the mechanisms between...

Chapter 3

East vs. West Approaches to Reporting Corporate Sustainability Strategies to the World: Corporate Sustainability Reporting: East vs. West (pages 49-68)

Jensena Kaplan, Ivan Montiel

This chapter applies Hofstede's cultural dimensions to compare how companies located in Western and Eastern regions present their corporate sustainability strategies to their stakeholders. We compare ten pairs of West-East...

Chapter 4

Cross-Country and Cross-Sector CSR Variations: A Comparative Analysis of CSR Reporting in the U.S., South Korea, and Turkey (pages 69-95)

Altay Dikeç, Victor Kane, Nejat Çapar

From the days corporate social responsibility (CSR) became a topic of discussion, extensive amount of research is conducted on CSR in Western countries but still there is relatively little focus on some developed and developing...

Chapter 5

Internet-Based Social Reporting in Emerging Economies: Insights from Public Banks in Egypt and the UAE (pages 96-115)

Mohamed Nagy Osman

This chapter examines how public banks operating in Egypt and the UAE respond to stakeholders' needs. It uses content analysis to explore the volume, nature, and quality of social information presented on the websites of these...

Chapter 6

Empirical Evidence on Corporate Governance Impact on CSR Disclosure in Developing Economies: The Tunisian and Egyptian Contexts (pages 116-137)

Wajdi Ben Rejeb

This chapter investigates the influence of the board composition and leadership on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure. The empirical study of 68 Tunisian listed companies and 100 Egyptian listed companies reveals that...

Chapter 7

An Evaluation of the State of the CSR Field in Australia: Perspectives from the Banking and Mining Sectors (pages 138-164)

Hélène de Burgh-Woodman, Alessandro Bressan, Angela Torrisi

While Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become established in the managerial lexicon, its meaning and application varies according to geographical and sector contexts. In this chapter, we focus on the application of CSR...

Chapter 8

Determinants of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure in Latin American Companies: An Analysis of the Oil and Gas Sector (pages 165-184)

Arturo Haro-de-Rosario, María del Mar Gálvez-Rodríguez, María del Carmen Caba-Pérez

The oil and gas sector exerts a major influence on the global economy. However, its negative impact on the environment and society has provoked increasing concerns about its activities and consumption of natural resources. Therefore...

Chapter 9

Socially Responsible Mining Corporations: Before (or in Addition to) Doing Good, Do No Harm (pages 185-207)

Nonita T. Yap, Kerry E. Ground

Mining is impact intensive regardless of commodity and scale. A socially responsible mining company, at a minimum, does not knowingly irreparably harm the community's ability to sustain itself after the mine closes. This chapter...

Chapter 10

Leveraging CSR as a ‘support-aid' for Triple Bottom-Line Development in Nigeria: Evidence from the Telecommunication Industry (pages 208-225)

Lukman Raimi

This book chapter focuses on the developmental-oriented perspective of CSR which views corporate involvement as a ‘support-aid' for meeting triple bottom-line development in Nigeria. Arising from the literature, the stakeholder...

Chapter 11

Doing Good Doing Well: Discussion of CSR in the Pulp and Paper Industry in the Asian Context (pages 226-240)

Dieu Hack-Polay, Haiyan Qiu

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) involves multi-faceted concerns and interested parties. The theoretical paper argues that pursuing CSR policies creates value for sustainable economic prosperity for the pulp and paper sector....

Chapter 12

Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives and Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Value Chains: Towards an Analytical Framework and a Methodology (pages 241-257)

Ahmad Hassan, Peter Lund-Thomsen

In this chapter, we make a contribution to the literature on corporate social responsibility in global value chains that link dispersed consumers and importers in developed countries with local manufacturers, workers, and communities...

Chapter 13

CSR in China: The Road to New Sustainable Business Models (pages 258-275)

Ruth Wolf, Monica Thiel

This chapter presents challenges in China's governance outlook within a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) analysis of China's social, environmental and economic resources and potential impacts in other countries. The...

Chapter 14

The Call for Global Responsible Inter-Generational Leadership: The Quest of an Integration of Inter-Generational Equity in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Models (pages 276-289)

Julia Puaschunder

Global systemic risks of climate change, over-indebtedness in the aftermath of the 2008/09 World Financial Crisis and the need for pension reform in the wake of an aging Western world population, currently raise attention for...

Chapter 15

Teaching Business Ethics Post GFC: A Corporate Social Responsibility of Universities (pages 290-307)

Theodora Issa, David Pick

Following the recent downfall of several high ranking executives, not only in the business world, but also in governments, attention is directed to the teaching of ethics in business schools. More specifically, attention is drawn to...

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