Corporate Governance: Volume 5 Issue 3
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The international journal of business in societyTable of contents - Responding to societal expectaions: a special issue from the European Academy of Business in Society and Vlerick Leuven Gen Management School
Guest Editors: Gilbert Lenssen, Lutgart van den Berghe, Cline Louche
Good corporate practices in poor corporate governance systems: Some evidence from the Global Competitiveness Report
Peter CorneliusAttempts to benchmark corporate governance practices have focused primarily on developed capital markets, whereas cross‐country comparisons remain difficult for emerging markets…
Sustainability in the boardroom: An empirical examination of Dow Jones Sustainability World Index leaders
Joan Enric Ricart, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Pablo SánchezAlthough an extensive body of research treats the fields of corporate governance and sustainable development separately, less attention has been paid to the interaction between…
Responding to global business critical issues: A source of innovation and transformation for FTSE 350 companies?
Jane Fiona Cumming, Neela Bettridge, Paul ToyneThe main aim of this research was to review which FTSE 350 companies were responding to social, ethical and environmental business‐critical global issues such as climate change…
A CSR framework due to multiculturalism: the Swiss Re case
Sybille Sachs, Edwin Rühli, Veronika MittnachtOwing to the fact that the concept of “CSR orientation in different cultural settings” is still quite unexplored, both in CSR theory and in empirical research the paper aims to…
Dealing with a global issue: contributing to poverty alleviation
Vincent Denby WilkesTo present one approach to integrating societal expectations in business as adopted by Electricité de France through their Access to Energy Program.
Signaling corporate values: consumers' suspicious minds
Claudio AquevequeWhile managers and researchers recognize that corporate social responsibility is positively related to some corporate performance measures, the instrumental reason for this…
Exploring leadership in times of paradox and complexity
André Martin, Christopher ErnstIncreasingly, organizations are faced with complex challenges stemming from integrating societal change into business. These challenges create new demands for leadership. The…
The meanings of social entrepreneurship today
Juliet Roper, George CheneyAims to explore the historical development and current usages of the concept of social entrepreneurship.
Social performance: key lessons from recent experiences within Shell
Titus Fossgard‐MoserSeeks to summarize the findings of research undertaken by the Shell Group to better understand the business relevance, parameters, status and tools and approaches to manage social…
Going global: how to identify and manage societal expectations in supply chains (and the consequences of failure)
Michael E. BlowfieldMultinational companies that want to be reputable global citizens need to manage divergent and often conflicting societal expectations. Aims to show that some do this by using a…
Corporate social responsibility and financial performance
Eveline Van de Velde, Wim Vermeir, Filip CortenThis paper aims to investigate the interaction between sustainability and financial performance. Can socially responsible investors, integrating environmental, social and ethical…
Meeting objectives and resisting conventions: A focus on institutional investors and long‐term responsible investing
Danyelle GuyattThis paper seeks to unravel some of the challenges associated with responsible investment from the institutional investor's perspective, focusing on how dominant conventions…
Changing governance patterns and CSR
Klaus KörnerThe discussion around CSR has so far centered on methods and on scope rather than on the potential relevance for corporate governance and governance more general. This paper…
Realigning business, government and civil society: Emerging embedded relational governance beyond the (neo) liberal and welfare state models
Atle MidttunThis article aims to explore the character of an emerging model of corporate social responsibility (CSR)‐oriented societal governance in an exchange theoretical perspective and to…
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1472-0701Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Professor Gabriel Eweje