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Chapter 1. Corporate responsibility and the value of value(s) -- Part I. Theoretical perspectives on values -- Chapter 2. Personal Values and Corporate Responsibility Adoption -- Chapter 3. The value of philanthropy – some economic and ethical perspectives from Adam Smith to the Post-World War II Era -- Chapter 4. A Historical Approach to Understanding Values and Its Importance for Corporate Responsibility -- Chapter 5. Members, Clients and the Society: A Grounded Theory of Cooperative Banks' Value Creation -- Part II. Generating Value Throught CR -- Chapter 6. Emerging Green Values in the UK Energy Sector: Ecotricity as Deep-Green Exemplar -- Chapter 7. A Conceptual Framework of Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: A Model for Fulfilment of Societal Needs While Increasing Business Financial Performance -- Chapter 8. CSR Strategies for (Re)gaining Legitimacy -- Chapter 9. Cultural and Educational Imprints on the Entrepreneurial Mindset: Romanian Insights -- Chapter 10. Managers' Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting and Practices: Legitimacy in the Developing Country's Banking Industry -- Chapter 11. Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives for Tanzania Corporations and Not-for-Profit Organizations -- Chapter 12. A Revaluation of All Values: Nietzschean Populism and Covid-19.

In the face of limited progress toward addressing poverty and resource degradation, increasing attention has been paid to harnessing the entrepreneurial, innovative, managerial and financial capacities of business for improved social and environmental outcomes. A more proactive role for business in sustainable development is especially pertinent in sub-Saharan Africa, which has been plagued by conflict and poverty but shows signs of a brighter future as the world?s second-fastest-growing region. This book contributes to the growing body of scholarly work on social and environmental innovation with the two-fold aim of studying the role of business in creating such innovation and focusing the analysis to the African context. To cover the various terrains of social and environmental innovation, this book contains novel empirical cases looking at social or environmental enterprises, social intrapreneurship and innovation in incumbent businesses, and social innovation through cross-sector collaboration. The final part of the book focuses on the implications for academics, exploring the role of universities and business schools in social innovation.

Based on the results of sociological research, key barriers that prevent active integration of the business sector into social and economic development of the territories are identified, and the problems of interaction between government and business at the municipal level in present Russian conditions are determined. It is concluded that only on the basis of building common values between the authorities and the business community, changing their behavioral attitudes it is possible to increase the level of social responsibility of business and actively implement social investment.

The corporate and the social are crucial themes of our times. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, both individual lives and society were shaped by capitalist crisis and the rise of social media. But what marks the distinctively social character of ""social media""? And how does it relate to the wider social and economic context of contemporary capitalism? The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is based on the idea that a socially responsible capitalism is possible; this suggests that capitalist media corporations can not only enable social interaction and cooperation

Purpose: This paper analyses the progress in extending disclosure of non-financial and diversity CSR information and seeks answer for the question if the definite pension and wage benefits in case of corporate insolvencies should be reflected in the management reports.Design/methodology/approach: Literature analysis, analysis of existing legislation and mechanism for the application of domestic law corresponded to EU directives and international guidelines and standards have been used to formulate conclusions. Сomparative studies of Belarusian legislation and the relevant international wage and pension protection instruments were analysed for making more informed and well-argued conclusions and recommendations based upon these studies.Research and practical limitations/implications: The theoretical framework of this paper is combined with analysis of the existing regulations on the protection of the rights of employees' and pensioners' claims in case of company insolvency.Findings: The conducted research suggests that together with implementation of diversity issues, employment issues, etc. of social and employee matters, companies are expected to disclose such material information as employees' and pensioners' claims in case of company insolvency through disclosing a relevant non-financial and diversity information in management reports.Originality/value: This article summarizes arguments behind the implementation of social responsibility aspects of companies' insolvency in the management reports. This research may be the basis for further practical implementation of disclosure requirements on non-financial and diversity information in international guidelines and principles.Paper type: research paper.

Purpose: This paper analyses the progress in extending disclosure of non-financial and diversity CSR information and seeks answer for the question if the definite pension and wage benefits in case of corporate insolvencies should be reflected in the management reports.Design/methodology/approach: Literature analysis, analysis of existing legislation and mechanism for the application of domestic law corresponded to EU directives and international guidelines and standards have been used to formulate conclusions. Сomparative studies of Belarusian legislation and the relevant international wage and pension protection instruments were analysed for making more informed and well-argued conclusions and recommendations based upon these studies.Research and practical limitations/implications: The theoretical framework of this paper is combined with analysis of the existing regulations on the protection of the rights of employees' and pensioners' claims in case of company insolvency.Findings: The conducted research suggests that together with implementation of diversity issues, employment issues, etc. of social and employee matters, companies are expected to disclose such material information as employees' and pensioners' claims in case of company insolvency through disclosing a relevant non-financial and diversity information in management reports.Originality/value: This article summarizes arguments behind the implementation of social responsibility aspects of companies' insolvency in the management reports. This research may be the basis for further practical implementation of disclosure requirements on non-financial and diversity information in international guidelines and principles.Paper type: research paper.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to map the different moral positions articulated by small business owners in relation to social responsibility (SR) commitment and practice.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative study utilized collaborative action research with 25 small business owners in two Canadian provinces and used combined methods of group dialogue, personal semi‐structured interviews, and thematic analysis through researcher triangulation.FindingsWe found that the morality underpinning business owners' social responsibility tended to be embedded in a sense of relationship with and commitment to the well‐being of the local geographic community. However, this was threaded with felt ambiguities, revealing their understanding of a spectrum of SR practices.Research limitations/implicationsThrough an ethical analysis, we argue that this moral commitment to community is connected to a relational worldview as part of a distinctive ethical vision while, at the same time, the small business owner‐managers were continuing to pursue business within an environment of orthodox economic ethics and practices. This substantially impacted the shape of their commitment as social change agents and their engagement in collective activities with like‐minded peers.Practical implicationsFurther research is needed to reveal how much the lack of engagement in collective social change activities and collective promotion of social responsibility is related to the practical issues of time famine, maintenance of a business niche, or an individualist ethos.Originality/valueThis study contributes several original findings by identifying a range of SR practices and the ethics behind each, from the perspective of small business owners, how they position themselves, as well as the paradoxical constraints they experience.

This dissertation is to be situated in the debate about the development of the contemporary Western European welfare state, its displacement of responsibilities from state to non-state societal actors and the resulting concerns vis-à-vis the optimal distribution of responsibilities. Drawing, in interdisciplinary fashion, from the fields of political sociology, political economics, welfare studies, public health policy, and management, it focuses upon the involvement of for-profit, non-state actors into a field traditionally of state competence, that of public health. In order to do so, are considered two spheres of research and practice that frame and motivate the involvement of business actors in public health in the welfare state, and that have been seldom crossed: the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) approach and the health promotion approach. Through the means of a qualitative policy analysis relying on a variety of methods, literature review, document analysis, case studies and participant observation, this dissertation sets out to identify the features of business involvement in health promotion through CSR, and to examine and discuss the issues arising from such involvement in the context of the Western European welfare state. Specifically, the purpose is that of participating to the clarification and discussion of the potential contributions and dilemmas CSR initiatives pose for health promotion policy and practice, as well as unveiling the limits to such contribution. The findings suggest that initiatives formulated within the CSR framework are apt to allow business actors to further contextual health promotion priorities and approaches, as well as enabling the advancing of social capital and trust building at local level. Nevertheless, such contributions were found to be partial, limited by a number of specific boundaries inherent to the way the CSR approach is configured and to the way it is applied. Boundaries are resumed in terms of: coexistent rationalities and partial understandings concerning the CSR approach; lack of awareness of business actors concerning the health promotion approach and its dimensions; positive understanding of social responsibility; and limited instruments for cross-sectoral negotiation and collaboration. On the basis of the findings, the dissertation refutes the dilemmas, presented in literature, concerning the potential for CSR initiatives to constitute a mean for the scaling back of governmental responsibilities or the divulgation of a narrow understanding of health. On the other hand, it confirms their potential instrumentality to the pursuit of opportunistic objectives, such as market differentiation and regulation avoidance. The information collected did not allow discussing the aptitude for CSR initiatives to constitute channels for the direct lobbying of political élites or the exercise of organizational control upon employees. The dissertation further warns that the selection of causes, beneficiaries, and social partners operated in absence of mechanisms of alignment with contextual priorities and of inclusion of stakeholder interest into business decision-making may lead to CSR initiatives emphasising, rather than counterbalancing, inequalities in the access to resources and opportunities for health. Ultimately, it is recommended for the term CSR to be modified as to better fit the ensemble of business actors that may engage in the approach, for instance, substituting it with the more encompassing term social responsibility of businesses, or with any other term apt to the depict the dialogic purpose of CSR. ; Phoenix JDP Dynamics of Health and Welfare, Joint Degree, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden and Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Lisboa, Portugal