Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility: The Past, Present and Future Values of Participatory Design

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Becker ◽  
Ann Light ◽  
Chris Frauenberger ◽  
Dawn Walker ◽  
Victoria Palacin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
The Past

Enhancing Retailer-Consumers Relationship through Everyday Sustainability

2017 ◽  
pp. 312-333
Author(s):  
Elena Candelo ◽  
Cecilia Casalegno ◽  
Chiara Civera
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Fast Food Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Young Consumers ◽  
Corporate Social

The chapter aims at investigating the effects that the Communication of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability exerts on consumers' perception considering the fast food industry in Italy. the McDonald's case study has been developed through managerial interviews and formal documents analysis in order to report on its strategies for CSR activities implementation and their communication in Italy. Moreover, through surveys conducted in Italy, the case study has been tested on a particular group of young consumers - Generation Z - less influenced by the past McDonald's activity in order to demonstrate how communications of sustainability are better believed and perceived, when a brand has a long tradition of misperceptions.

scholarly journals Corporate social responsibility of the Port of Gdynia

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 01017
Author(s):  
Hanna Klimek ◽  
Janusz Dąbrowski
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Sea Ports ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
And Storage

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a tool used by companies to establish positive relations with their surroundings and gain a competitive edge. This also relates to centres providing services, such as seaports. In the past, these served as loading/off-loading and storage stations as well as ship terminals. At present, they have become versatile complexes administering land and infrastructure as well as playing host to numerous enterprises which offer a wide range of services to carriers and freight forwarders. Not only individual businesses but also entire port service hubs can, or even should, be socially responsible nowadays. The topic of this research is the social responsibility of sea ports. This article will discuss the social responsibility of the Port of Gdynia. The objective is to present socially responsible actions taken by Gdynia Port Authority SA and the largest port operators and to assess the progress made on the implementation of CSR there.

Peculiarities of corporate social responsibility development in the monotowns in post-communist countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inna Blam ◽  
Katarína Vitálišová ◽  
Kamila Borseková ◽  
Mariusz Sokolowicz
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Social

Purpose The paper aims to analyze actual issues of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in monofunctional towns in Russia, Slovakia and Poland. The process of social investment restructuring is obviously under way in these countries. However, there can be identified a few examples where the dominant employer with the long tradition (from the soviet period, even longer) has initiated and directly influenced by the social policy the local and regional development. The paper analyzes their development during the past decades, with the special emphasis on social issues. It identifies its strengths and weaknesses and defines future research areas. Design/methodology/approach The first part of the paper defines the CSR with focus on the social sphere and relationships between local dominant employer, local government and community. Refer to the theory, the paper adopts a case study methodology to explore the specifics of CSR with a focus on monotowns, especially the role of local dominant employer and its relationship with local government and community in three selected post-communist nations – Russia, Slovakia and Poland. The research uses also the secondary data (the strategic documents, statistical data) and own observation during the study visits to the selected cities. The authors analyze the town’s development during the past decades, with the special emphasis on the social issues. Findings It is shown that maintenance and development of essential living conditions in many monofunctional towns depends upon the direct participation of large dominating companies. The paper argues that there is a principal difference between the current social policy conducted by these dominant local employers and the policy that was conducted in the past. What is more, most of the engagement of large in the social affairs in monotowns refers to the CSR concept. The paper summarizes the common features and differences in functioning monotowns in selected states, from the perspective of social responsible behaviors of dominant companies, suggests the practical implications and identifies future research areas. Originality/value The paper maps the specific kind of social responsibility interconnected with the issue of local and regional development – monotowns in Russia, Poland and Slovakia – in the countries with common political and social history. It brings in the form of case studies the detailed overview of the selected examples from Russia, Ukraine and Poland dealing with the CSR. Based on the collected data, it summarizes the advantages and disadvantage of these towns and opens the new research areas.

scholarly journals Inspiration of Astronomy in the Movies: a History of a Close Encounter

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 and 2) ◽  
pp. 357-371
Author(s):  
Beatriz García ◽  
Estela Reynoso ◽  
Silvina Pérez Alvarez ◽  
Raúl Gabellone
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Science History ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Giordano Bruno ◽  
The Media

The connection between astronomy and an independent, widespread cultural expression like cinematography is of particular interest within the context of the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena. Astronomy has caught the interest of the seventh art since its birth, early in the twentieth century. In this paper we go through a collection of movies that reveal how astronomy and astronomers are perceived by society. We notice the influence of the progress achieved in astronautics in the second half of the past century, and how interplanetary or even intergalactic travels have become a recurrent issue. In many cases, astronomical facts are rigorously treated, but several other times, serious mistakes are transmitted. Biographical movies based on astronomical celebrities are rare, but some are masterpieces, like Giordano Bruno by Giuliano Montaldo, or Galileo Galilei by Liliana Cavani. In this sense the astronomers, as main characters in cinema, support the idea of the scientist as everyman, connected with life and, in many cases, with a sense of social responsibility. From the analysis of more than a hundred movies, we can see that this particular manifestation of art, which involves science and technology, can be used not only to reproduce astronomical events, transmit a message or reproduce a particular epoch of science history, but also to teach, to develop a critical faculty when faced with information from the media, and to show that astronomical facts can be as interesting, relevant, dramatic, happy or funny as real life.

scholarly journals Retro-Innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Loucanova ◽  
Jan Parobek ◽  
Martina Kalamarova
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
New Products ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Corporate Social

Abstract The paper deals with the retro-innovation and their importance to corporate social responsibility (CSR). Corporate social responsibility is a process with the aim to encourage a positive impact through activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, and all other stakeholders of the public sphere. The accelerated rate of technological and social change influences on the society. The main social problems are symptoms of future shock. Retro-innovation trend is emerging against an accelerating backdrop of “datafication”. New products are designed to connect customers with the past in ways that are nostalgic, interactive and environmental. CSR thanks to the retroinnovation encourages has a positive impact on the all stakeholders and eliminates the future shock.

scholarly journals The Relation between Corporate Social Responsibility and Bank Reputation: A Review and Roadmap

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Antonio Lorena
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Reputation ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Areas ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Precise Relationship ◽  
Corporate Social

Abstract Over the past decades, scholars have paid greater attention to relation between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and corporate reputation. However, despite a growing interest in this area, such linkages have remained relatively unexplored in the banking industry and the precise relationship is not clear. Moving from these considerations, this study proposes a systematic review of peer-reviewed scientific literature aiming to: 1) list, 2) classify and 3) compare existing studies. The review was carried out using the following databases: ISI Web, Google Scholar, and SSRN. I investigate a number of publishing academic works, summarizing main approaches, results and insights. I also provide a roadmap for future study and offer research questions about critical areas of this stream of research. The paper contributes to the ongoing international debates, and the preliminary results are encouraging.

scholarly journals An Exploratory Study of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Partnership Programs for Empowering Small Medium Enterprise (SMEs)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achmad Murdiono ◽  
Adelia Shabrina Prameka
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
Corporate Social

CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) has grown rapidly over the past twenty years. Besides being based on social activities (charity), companies also develop CSR activities in the form of partnerships. The implementation of interdependence between the company and the community is realized in the form of a partnership between companies and CSR-targeted SMEs. This study aimed to determine the field of cooperation, patterns of cooperation and partnership mechanisms between companies and SMEs through CSR activities in East Java. The results illustrated that most corporations partner with SMEs in the field of production. The results can be used to create a model for the empowerment of SMEs through CSR activities by considering environmental, culture and economic conditions that affect the empowerment of SMEs. Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and partnerships, empowerment of SMEs

scholarly journals Financial Performance Gaps and Corporate Social Responsibility

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinming Deng ◽  
Xianyi Long
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Behavioral Theory ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
The Past ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

Based on the behavioral theory of firm and prospect theory, we investigate how corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities will respond to underperformance in past and in future. Using samples of Chinese listed firms from 2011 to 2016, this paper found that CSR increases with the distance by which financial performance in the last year falls below goals and decreases with the distance by which expected financial performance will fall below targets. In addition, the future underperformance will weaken the effect of the past underperformance on CSR. Besides, the value of financial performance in the last year will weaken the impact of underperformance in the last year on CSR and strengthen the impact of underperformance in the next year on CSR. The findings suggest that future studies should take both value of financial performance and performance gaps into consideration to have a better understanding of organizational decisions and behaviors.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility and Organizational Resilience to COVID-19 Crisis: An Empirical Study of Chinese Firms

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8970
Author(s):  
Wenchuan Huang ◽  
Shouming Chen ◽  
Luu Thi Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Time Window ◽  
Organizational Resilience ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Firm Capability ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

Resilience captures firm capability to adjust to and recover from unexpected shocks in the environment. Being latent and path-dependent, the manifestation of organizational resilience is hard to be directly measured. This article assesses organizational resilience of firms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic with pre-shock corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance as a predictor that positively influences the level of organizational resilience to the external shock caused by the pandemic. We develop three theoretical mechanisms based on stakeholder theory, resource-based theory, reputation perspective and means-end chain theory to explain how CSR fulfillment in the past could help firms maintain stability to adapt to and react flexibly to recover from the crisis. We examine the relationship in the context of the systemic shock caused by COVID-19, using a sample of 1597 listed firms in China during the time window from 20 January 2020 to 10 June 2020. We find that companies with higher CSR performance before the shock will experience fewer losses and will take a shorter time to recover from the attack.

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