How CSR activities affect students attitudinal and behavioral loyalty in the Lebanese educational sector?

The success of any organization is settled on its ability of initiating, sustaining, and retaining a good customer relationship based on loyalty. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) turned out to be considered as an efficient marketing tool. However, the impact of CSR on loyalty is still uncultivated. The present paper investigates the influence of CSR activities on both loyalty constructs: attitudinal loyalty as well as behavioral loyalty. Based on a sample of 203 Lebanese students, results revealed a considerable effect of ethical, legal and philanthropy social responsibility on both attitudinal and behavioral loyalty. Conversely, the effect of economic responsibility on attitudinal and behavioral loyalty was insignificant.

Social responsibility of business: concepts, typology and formation factors

In the article the authors analyze the approaches to the definition of "social responsibility". The paper substantiates the relevance of implementing the principles of corporate social responsibility. The authors study the types of social responsibility and its manifestations. It is concluded that corporate social responsibility initiatives are based on four different categories, namely ethical responsibility, philanthropic responsibility, environmental responsibility and economic responsibility. The implementation of the principles of economic responsibility is extremely important, because in this case, economic decisions are made, taking into account their overall impact on both society and business. Thus, economic responsibility can improve business operations by engaging in sustainable practices. It is proposed to divide all factors influencing the formation and development of social responsibility of the company into two groups: factors of action (tax system and public administration systems; government surcharges, subsidies, rewards, etc .; creation of special funds, savings, etc .; volunteering and private initiative ; other factors) and factors of provision (development of investment activity; formation of mechanisms of motivation and stimulation of involvement in the decision of social problems; construction of effective management systems; introduction of public-private partnership). The group of factors of action influences both at the national and local levels. Provision factors are based on the intensification of investment activities, which is the basis for innovation, which in turn will provide additional cash flow and create a strong financial and economic base for the formation of social responsibility systems. The article describes one of the possible options for the process of financial and economic support of social responsibility. It is substantiated that the consideration of these factors by business entities in their activities will help increase social investment, improve the image of companies, increase their attractiveness as participants in the business environment.

Economic Responsibility Audit Transformation and Development of Township Party and Government Leading Cadres – Problems and Countermeasures

With the implementation of a series of policies to support rural development, such as the national rural revitalization strategy and poverty alleviation, the economic responsibility audit of township party and government leading cadres has been given new responsibilities and missions. However, some grass-roots audit institutions are faced with practical difficulties such as the solidification of audit thinking, slow progress of audit informatization construction, and large gap of grass-roots audit resources. The only way to overcome the difficulties is to explore the transformation of the economic responsibility audit and countermeasures of the township party and government leading cadres by tracing the source and adapting measures according to the difficulties.

Enterprise Restructuring Based on Modeling the Economic Responsibility of Its Divisions

Structure and function as two system-building factors that affect each other. Their mutual conformity is a guarantee of the system efficient functioning. At certain time this conformity can be broken and it will impact adversely the organization work. As a result it will be necessary either to revise the function (mission) of the enterprise or to restructure it. According to the theory of business systems, the contribution of each division to the system function realization can be estimated through modeling economic responsibility, which should, in theory, correspond to employees' remuneration. The given logic underlies COMPAS methodology, whose version was elaborated by the authors and used in the article. This methodology was tested at the Research Center of Pharmacotherapy. The findings of the research allowed the authors to put forward the current and strategic solution to the problem of unbalanced economic responsibility and personnel remuneration. In the short run in order to reduce the general manager's load it is possible to pass some of his/her tasks to subordinates and in the long run it is recommended to change the structure of enterprise management and revise the distribution of economic responsibility and remuneration in divisions.

Economic Responsibility Audit of Leading Cadres of the Party and Government at the Grassroots Level – Existing Problems and Countermeasures

Economic responsibility audit is an important part of the socialist audit supervision system with Chinese characteristics. It is an important responsibility of audit institutions at all levels to carry out economic responsibility audit. This article conducts a comprehensive and profound analysis of the problems existing in the current grassroots economic responsibility audit work. In addition, countermeasures and suggestions are proposed in this article, which are of positive significance to promote the economic responsibility audit work of leading cadres.