Social Responsibility Journal: Volume 12 Issue 1

Framing green consumer behaviour research: opportunities and challenges

Sapna A. Narula, Anupriya Desore

This paper aims to investigate existing research in green marketing with special reference to consumer behaviour and identify challenges both in practice and research, offering…

Profitability, state ownership, tax reporting and corporate social responsibility: evidence from Chinese listed firms

Bixia Xu, Tao Zeng

This paper aims to examine corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of listed Chinese firms. In particular, it examines the relationships between CSR and…

Organizational accountability relations: de facto or de jure?

Cameron Sabadoz, Lindsay McShane

The purpose of this paper is to bring the concept of “meeting the gaze of the other” into conversation with the organizational accountability literature. This is done by…

Do ethical firms create value?

Khondkar Karim, SangHyun Suh, Jiali Tang

– This study aims to examine the value relevance of ethics information.

Financial firms’ social activities and how they influence their customers’ preference structure

José Manuel García-Gallego, Antonio Chamorro Mera, María Jesús Barroso-Méndez

The purpose of this paper is to determine the importance that customers give to social investment activities in their region when selecting a financial entity compared to other…

Socially responsive consumption behaviour – an Indian perspective

Meenakshi Gandhi, Neeraj Kaushik

There is a need to promote socially responsible consumption which would accelerate the efforts of economic upliftment and sustainable development initiated by the government and…

Social responsibility in the Spanish financial system

Antonio Carlos Aranda Ruiviejo, Eva Maria Sotomayor Morales

– This paper aims to analyze the degree of implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies in the Spanish financial system.

Corporate social responsibility diffusion by multinational subsidiaries in Indonesia: organisational dynamic and institutional effect

Melia Famiola, Siti Adiprigandari Adiwoso

The purpose of this study is to explore the extent of relational and institutional pressures’ influence on both the motivation for and diffusion of corporate social responsibility…

Corporate involvement brings environmental improvement: the language of disclosure in Malaysian CSR reports

Kumaran Rajandran

– This paper aims to analyse how Environment Sections in Malaysian corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports disclose environmental CSR.

Does the stakeholders – corporate social responsibility (CSR) relationship exist in emerging countries? Evidence from China

Dongwei Li, Han Lin, Ya-wen Yang

– This study aims to examine whether the association between stakeholders and corporate social responsibility (CSR) documented in developed countries exists in China.

Factors determining social and environmental reporting by Indian textile and apparel firms: a test of legitimacy theory

Ratna Nurhayati, Grantley Taylor, Rusmin Rusmin, Greg Tower, Bikram Chatterjee

– The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors determining the social and environmental reporting (SER) of Indian textile and apparel (TA) firms.

Corporate social responsibility – from a mere concept to an expected business practice

Anjum Amin-Chaudhry

In the past hundred years, the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has seen a remarkable development with various notions of “what is the right thing to do” for the…