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"Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been developed into a crucial corporate and organizational issue around the world. It has been incorporated within various sectors, countries and includes many types of activities and dimensions. It is common ground that organizations are more inclined today to broader their performance focus form short-term oriented goals towards a long-term social, environmental and value-added perspectives. Under the framework of corporate governance, organizations and companies are motivated to promote fairness, transparency, ethics and accountability in their transactions, while concurrently maintaining enhanced standards of governance. This means that organizations and corporations must align their activities with community aspirations which is an issue falling within the sphere of CSR. Increased attention has been exerted on the organizations regarding their approach towards the needs of various stakeholders. However, a crucial issue that this book attempts to address is the association, intersection and the inter-relationship between governance and CSR within the EU region, not adequately established in the existing literature. The book will show that governance and CSR are highly connected. With the purpose to study the association of CSR with legal, managerial and empirical aspects of governance in corporations and not-for-profit organizations, through various sectors of the economy, the book also intends to provide useful policy implications as well as to offer constructive directions for future research. It will be of value to researchers, academics, practitioners, policymakers, and students in the fields of corporate social responsibility and governance, organizational theory, marketing management, business ethics and human resource management"--

European policy has many implications on the formation of national policy and decision-making process. Although European Union has no direct competence in the area of sport, its value-added is apparent in the promotion of sport-related activities and the exchange of good practice, influencing sport policy in the member states. The aim of this article is to explore the impact of the European Union on Greek sport policy making. Focusing on the social dimension of sport, this article argues that the Europeanization of Greek sport policy is limited because of its reliance on weak and indirect mechanisms. Yet it perceives a kind of a selective adoption of EU initiatives and recommendations for Greece to accomplish particular goals and meet national priorities. One of the benefits of this interaction is that Greece has slowly entered into a "learning" process where EU provides a platform for sport-related policy transfer and exchange of ideas among member states.

In Griechenland entstanden seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts verschiedene Typen von Interessengruppen. Obgleich die wichtigsten und einflussreichsten im wirtschaftlichen Bereich angesiedelt waren, haben Formationen anderer Interessen und kollektiver Identitäten einen nicht zu unterschätzenden organisatorischen, politischen und ideologischen Einfluss in bestimmten Phasen der politischen und sozialen Geschichte Griechenlands ausgeübt. Der Beitrag geht auf diese historische Entwicklung ein, beschreibt die rechtlichen Grundlagen der Vereinigungs- und Koalitionsfreiheit sowie die Struktur der Verbände und Organisationen in Griechenland und die Verbandstypen. Vor dem Ausblick werden schließlich noch die Beziehungen der Verbände zum politischen System analysiert. (ICB2)