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The rule of Saint Benedict and corporate management: employing the whole person
Birgit Kleymann, Hedley MallochThe “classical” logic of organisations existing as generators of shareholder value, with the human “resources” seen as a means to this end, has been the subject of criticism…
Leadership practices for corporate global responsibility
Alessia D'Amato, Regina Eckert, John Ireland, Laura Quinn, Ellen Van VelsorThe move of organizations towards corporate global responsibility (CGR) is often a major change process that requires leadership throughout the organization. Despite an array of…
CSR and the building of leadership capability
Grant Jones, Robin KramarThe paper aims to test the proposition that action research conducted within an organisation can develop the kind of leadership capabilities that are likely to enhance…
Escaping the disciplinary straitjacket: Curriculum design as university adaptation to sustainability
Kate Sherren, Libby Robin, Peter Kanowski, Stephen DoversCurriculum design is often a challenge. It is particularly so when the subject is sustainability, which is an aspirational but contested concept, draws on a range of disciplinary…
Re‐articulating the ethical corporation: the case of the Woolf Committee Report
Tommy Jensen, Johan SandströmEfforts to address the role and responsibilities of large global corporations have predominantly focused on the need for increased and more effective global corporate governance…
Re‐visiting HIV/AIDS in the workplace and HR work in Thai business organizations
Busaya Virakul, Gary N. McLeanThe paper aims is to investigate human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and human resources (HR) management in Thai business organizations…
A review of Canadian corporate sustainable development reports
Greg Davis, Cory SearcyThe purpose of the paper is to present the results of a content analysis of Canadian corporate sustainable development reports.
Legitimating corporate global irresponsibility: Origins, contexts and vectors of the market modern newspeak
Bernard SionneauThe paper aims to explain why and how, in the USA, a very particular interpretation of economic liberalism, faring though different historical contexts, has generated, since the…
Institutionalizing idealism: the adoption of CSR practices
Adrian Haberberg, Jonathan Gander, Alison Rieple, Clive Helm, Juan‐Ignacio Martin‐CastillaThe purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss the idiosyncratic features of the adoption and institutionalization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices.
An institutional perspective of the MNC as a social change agent: the case of environmentalism
Matthew C. MitchellUsing an institutional theory perspective this paper aims to examine the influence of multinational corporations (MNCs) on host country institutional environments.
ISSN:
2041-2568e-ISSN:
2041-2576ISSN-L:
2041-2568Online date, start – end:
2010Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Henri Kuokkanen
- Willy Legrand