Learning CSR for Sustainable Corporate Advantage

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew P. Kakabadse ◽  
Nada K. Kakabadse ◽  
Linda Lee-Davies
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Environment ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Corporate Advantage ◽  
Corporate Social

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a strategic and operational reality of the business and academic world. Not that the principles of CSR are always respected or that its practice is consistently applied. Bearing in mind the multi-faceted nature of both CSR and the corporate environment, as well as the paradox of what is taught in Higher Education and what is practised within its own walls, this paper provides a learning cyclical pathway to sustainable CSR implementation and progress review. As well as highlighting the role that Higher Education has to play, the paper emphasises that in order to embed CSR within the corporate environment, questions need to be raised concerning on-going CSR improvement in order to both protect and engage a wide range of stakeholders towards sustainable corporate advantage.

scholarly journals Social responsibility in engineering curricula

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natascha van Hattum-Janssen ◽  
Maria Sanchéz-Fernandéz ◽  
Susana Caires ◽  
Sheila Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Dimension ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dimension 2 ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept related to the need for companies to be not only competitive but also sustainable and refers to and the relationship of the company with its social and environmental surroundings, including labour issues [1]. CSR is also gaining attention within Higher Education, being related to a wide range of activities taking place at universities, especially the environmental dimension [2].

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF IMPLEMENTING THE CONCEPT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY BY RUSSIA’S INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
IRINA MOROZOVA ◽  
SERGEY VOLKOV
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Corporate Social

The article analyses the features of implementing the concept of corporate social responsibility by Russian industrial enterprises. As the object of the analysis, the authors chose the Volgograd regional administrative office of OOO Lukoil-ENERGOSETI. Based on a wide range of statistical data on the level of CSR development in the region, the article reveals key features of industrial enterprises' corporate social responsibility. 

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.

Corporate social responsibility in sport: Stakeholder management in the UK football industry

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 566-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Walters ◽  
Richard Tacon
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Professional Football ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Football Industry

AbstractCorporate social responsibility (CSR) has become increasingly significant for a wide range of organisations and for the managers that work within them. This is particularly true in the sport industry, where CSR is now an important area of focus for sport organisations, sport events and individual athletes. This article demonstrates how CSR can inform both theoretical debates and management practice within sport organisations. It does so by focusing on stakeholder theory, which overlaps considerably with CSR. In this article, stakeholder theory is used to examine three major CSR issues: stakeholder definition and salience, firm actions and responses, and stakeholder actions and responses. These three issues are considered in the context of the UK football industry. The article draws on 15 semi-structured qualitative interviews with senior representatives from a number of different organisations. These include the director of a large professional football club; a chief executive of a medium-sized professional football club in addition to the supporter-elected director; and the vice-chairman of a small professional football club. Additional interviews were undertaken with five representatives from national supporter organisations, two board members at two large supporter associations, two representatives from the Football League, one representative from the Independent Football Commission, and a prominent sports journalist. The analysis of the interview data illustrates ways in which CSR can be implemented by sport organisations through stakeholder management strategies. The article concludes that stakeholder theory has both conceptual and empirical value and can be used to illuminate key issues in sport management.

scholarly journals Does Employee Quality Affect Corporate Social Responsibility? Evidence from China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shilu Sun ◽  
Tiantian Li ◽  
Hong Ma ◽  
Rita Yi Man Li ◽  
Kostas Gouliamos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Independent Directors ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

This paper investigated the impact of employee quality on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Based on data from China A-share-listed companies for the years 2012–2016 and using ordinary least squares, our empirical results show that the educational level of the workforce, as a proxy for employee quality, is positively associated with CSR, which suggests that higher education can promote CSR implementation. Additional analyses found that this positive relationship is more pronounced in non-state-owned enterprises, enterprises in regions with lower marketisation processes, and firms with lower proportions of independent directors. This study extends the literature on human capital at the level of firms’ entire workforce and CSR by elaborating the positive effect of employee quality on CSR in the context of an emerging economy (China). The results suggest that it is necessary to consider the educational level of employees when analysing CSR, which is of strategic significance for corporate sustainable development.

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