Re-imagining Corporate Community Involvement during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Pharmaceutical Companies in Guangdong Province, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 302-310
Author(s):  
Chong Gao ◽  
Ho Hon Leung
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
The State ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Corporate Behavior ◽  
Corporate Community Involvement ◽  
The Government ◽  
Corporate Community

In this paper, we examine the participation of commercial firms in the fight against COVID-19 through the lens of Corporate Community Involvement (CCI). To display CCI as part of ethical and responsible corporate behavior, CCI studies often use a business-centered approach while paying less attention to the role of the state. Based on the stories of some pharmaceutical companies in Guangdong province joining China’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, we argue that the state may play a crucial role in shaping CCI activities and in making companies partner with the government under a state of emergency. We also point out that it is likely for these companies to translate their involvement in solving public health problems into profit-seeking opportunities. As such, this paper contributes to CCI studies by introducing a state-led approach and suggesting a form of “state-led and market-driven” CCI. Moreover, this study provides fresh information about the effects of corporations on social life and the practice of socially responsible corporate behavior in a state of public health emergency to anthropologists in the new subfields of anthropology of corporate social responsibility and anthropology of business corporations.

scholarly journals Government Immunity and Liability in Tort: The Case of Covid-19 Pandemic’s Management in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Laras Susanti
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Health Management ◽  
The State ◽  
Dispute Settlement Mechanism ◽  
Concrete Action ◽  
The Government ◽  
Administrative Governance ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Laws And Regulations

The Covid-19 pandemic has cost human lives and threaten the world’s economy. Responding to this unprecedented history, governments are expected to take both public health and economic recovery actions. This article conveys analysis on how Indonesian courts might examine government tort cases on the government’s liability in handling the pandemic. A normative juridical method is used to analyze primary and secondary legal sources. The writer finds that with the enactment of Law Number 30 of 2014 on Government Administration, a government concrete action is also an object to suing government before the state administrative court. Furthermore, the recent Supreme Court Regulation Number 2 of 2019 on Guidance Dispute Settlement Mechanism of Government Action and Competence to Adjudicate Government Tort governs that the state administrative court is the only court that has competence over government tort. As a result, claims of government tort submitted to the general court must be dismissed. In fact, this recent development created confusion on the side of justice seekers and judges as well that might affect the outcome of Covid-19 government tort claims. Studying previous government tort cases and focusing its exploration on the development of government immunity and liability, this article finds that Indonesian courts use Article 1365 Civil Code equipped with laws and regulations in administrative governance and specific fields legal frameworks to examine government tort cases. Even though such laws may state that the government may not be sued, the courts may use the Constitution of 1945 to establish a right to sue. During the Covid-19 pandemic, laws and regulations related to disaster and public health management along with the public interest principle must be examined to determine government tort.

Corporate Community Involvement

2018 ◽  
pp. 5-38
Author(s):  
Leo van den Berg ◽  
Erik Braun ◽  
Alexander H.J. Otgaar
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Corporate Community Involvement ◽  
Corporate Community

Christian Religiosity and Corporate Community Involvement

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinhua Cui ◽  
Hoje Jo ◽  
Manuel G. Velasquez
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Firm Characteristics ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Corporate Community Involvement ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
Econometric Tests ◽  
Corporate Community ◽  
Religious Morality

ABSTRACT:We examine whether religion influences company decisions related to corporate community involvement (CCI). Employing a large US sample, we show that the CCI initiatives of a company are positively associated with the level of Christian religiosity present in the region within which that company’s headquarters is located. This association persists even after we control for a wide range of firm characteristics and after we subject our results to several econometric tests. These results support our religious morality hypothesis which holds that companies headquartered in regions with higher levels of Christian religiosity will engage in more CCI initiatives. We also find that while Catholic and mainline Protestant religiosity have a positive influence on firms’ CCI initiatives, evangelical Protestant religiosity does not. This supports our differentiated responses hypothesis which holds that institutional differences among religious groups will produce different effects on companies’ CCI. This hypothesis is based on institutional theory.

Corporate Community Involvement in European and US Cities

10.1068/c0246 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo van den Berg ◽  
Erik Braun ◽  
Alexander H J Otgaar
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Corporate Community Involvement ◽  
Corporate Community ◽  
Us Cities
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