Society and Business Review: Volume 11 Issue 2

Editorial

Yoann Bazin

South Africa’s bold and unique experiment in CSR practice

Gary Malcolm Mersham, Chris Skinner

The purpose of this study is to describe the current practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in South Africa, its linkage to corporate social investment (CSI), the…

Are competition and corporate social responsibility compatible?: The myth of sustainable competitive advantage

Françoise Quairel-Lanoizelee

The purpose of this paper is to explore the connection between CSR and competition to contribute to the CSR concept through analysis of the conditions for its implementation…

Conceptualising public-private partnerships: A critical appraisal of approaches to meanings and forms

Nikolai Mouraviev, Nada K. Kakabadse

The purpose of this paper is to survey various meanings attached to a public–private partnership (PPP) and related aspects in Western literature and to identify commonalities and…

Doubling: there’s no escape from terror/doubling: there’s an escape from commodification …?

Hugo Letiche

Commodification doubles self and work, life and object, uniqueness and standardization and art and management. For the artist, the unicity, beauty, inspiration and creativity of…

Re-thinking induction in practice: profession, peer group and organization in contention

Silvia Gherardi, Manuela Perrotta

The purpose of this paper is to develop an interpretative framework of induction as a social practice to examine the ecology of the human and non-human actors involved in the…

Free will in social and psychological contracts

Denise M. Rousseau

The purpose of this paper is to examine the scientific standing of the concept of free will and its role and functioning in social and psychological contracts. It updates Rousseau…

The ethics of care as a determinant for stakeholder inclusion and CSR perception in business education

Kévin André

The purpose of the paper is to show that among business students, care ethics is a determinant for corporate social responsibility (CSR) perception and stakeholder inclusion.