Social Responsibility Journal: Volume 18 Issue 8

Conceptualizing corporate social responsibility practice: an integration of obligation and opportunity

Aashna Sharma, Gurparkash Singh

This paper aims to develop an integrated model to analyse the corporate social responsibility (CSR) perception of organizations in a regulated environment. The developed model is…

Fostering sustainable businesses: understanding sustainability-driven entrepreneurial intention among university students in Pakistan

Idrees Waris, Waseem Barkat, Adeel Ahmed, Irfan Hameed

The purpose of this research paper is to predict sustainability-driven entrepreneurship intention among university students in the developing market (Pakistan).

Consumers’ prosocial engagement in CSR: why should they care and what does it mean to them?

Baobao Song

Public relations practitioners worldwide are attempting to enhance the overall organization–stakeholder relationships by applying strategic communication techniques and skills to…

CSR portfolio characteristics and performance outcomes: examining the impacts of CSR portfolio diversity and dynamism

Kyle Turner, Craig A. Turner, William H. Heise

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and test a portfolio view of a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. Drawing from stakeholder theory and the dynamic…

Exploring and establishing the barriers to sustainable humanitarian supply chains using fuzzy interpretive structural modeling and fuzzy MICMAC analysis

Haidar Abbas, Zainab Asim, Zuhaib Ahmed, Sanyo Moosa

The continual onset of natural and manmade disasters propels the humanitarian supply chain (HSC) efforts (by organizations, groups and individuals) to always be on a stand-by mode…

Putting risk management into the corporate sustainability context

Lorren Kirsty Haywood

This research investigates what is driving corporate sustainability within South African organisations and to what extent these drivers intersect with risk management. This is…

Generating shared value: intersection between organisations that invest in social innovation

Malcon Santos Gonçalves, Marcia Juliana d'Angelo, Raysa Geaquinto Rocha

This study aims to investigate how organizations that invest in social innovation – such as for-profit and social enterprises – organize and shape the dynamics between social…

Covid-19 and organisational development: important signs of a new pillar for sustainability

Isabel Cristina Panziera Marques, Zélia Serrasqueiro, Fernanda Nogueira

The global pandemic has had a considerable effect on organisations’ performance and development and on the daily lives of the general population. This study aims to analyse the…

Customers’ willingness of irresponsible industry 4.0 companies to co-create sustainable practices

Manuela Escobar-Sierra, Alejandra García-Cardona, Fidel León-Darder

In this regard, this paper aims to wonder how willing to co-create sustainable practices customers of irresponsible Industry 4.0 (I4.0) companies are? With this purpose, the…

Untangling innovation: an examination of compensation, corporate social responsibility, and corporate financial performance

Patti Collett Miles, John N. Angelis

This study aims to examine how highly innovative firms behave differently from their peers to become profitable. The authors investigate this through two distinct groups, one…

The adoption of integrated reporting by state-owned enterprises (SOEs) – an international comparison

Barry Ackers, Adeyemi Adebayo

This paper aims to establish the extent to which South African state-owned entities (SOEs), where integrated reporting is a quasi-mandatory reporting requirement, have…

Micro-loans and financial performance: a case of a Chinese commercial bank

Jasmine Alam, Mustapha Ibn Boamah, Yuheng Liu

This study aims to investigate the relationship between a commercial bank’s micro-loaning activity and overall performance over a 10-year period.

Environmental corporate social responsibility initiatives and green purchase intention: an application of the extended theory of planned behavior

Dang Manh Vu, Ngoc Thang Ha, Thi Viet Nga Ngo, Huong Thao Pham, Cong Doanh Duong

This study aims to integrate the perspective of consumer social responsibility with the theory of planned behavior to explore the impact of environmental corporate social…

Investigating determinants of localised corporate social responsibility: evidence from Pakistan

Kamran Mohy-Ud-din, Muhammad Azam, Hamad Ul Haq, Shakeel Aslam

This study aims to investigate the determinants of localised corporate social responsibility (LCSR) activities in Pakistan. The present study explores factors influencing the…

Determinants of recycling behavior in higher education institution

Ai Chin Thoo, Shi Jie Tee, Hon Tat Huam, Adaviah Mas’od

This study aims to investigate the impact of theory of planned behavior (namely, attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control) on recycling intention, as well as the…

Exploring the influence of lean manufacturing practices on employee social sustainability

Stéfano Ciannella, Luciano Costa Santos

The benefits of adopting lean manufacturing for leveraging corporate sustainability have been highlighted in the literature. However, these studies have neglected the social side…

Rationality, experiences or identity work? Sensemaking of emotionally tense experiences of organizational sustainability

Bhavesh Sarna, Tiina Onkila, Marileena Mäkelä

Although emotional tensions related to organizational sustainability have been identified, little is known about how employees aim to resolve such situations. This study aims to…