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THE CRITICAL STATE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN EUROPE

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CRITICAL STUDIES ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY, GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY

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CRITICAL STUDIES ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY, GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY VOLUME 12

THE CRITICAL STATE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN EUROPE

EDITED BY

RALPH TENCH

BRIAN JONES

WILLIAM SUN

Leeds Beckett University, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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ISSN: 2043-9059 (Series)

Editorial Advisory and Review Board

• Fabienne Alvarez

  Professor of Management, Department of Economics and Business, University of Antilles and Guyane Pointe-à-Pitre, France

• Ralph Bathurst

  Senior Lecturer, School of Management (Albany), Massey University, New Zealand

• Lawrence Bellamy

  Professor & Associate Dean, Chester Business School, Chester University, UK

• Robert Chia

  Research Professor of Management, Glasgow University, UK

• Blanaid Clarke

  McCann Fitzgerald Chair of Corporate Law, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland

• Thomas Clarke

  Professor of Management & Director of the Center for Corporate Governance, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

• Barry A. Colbert

  Reader & Director of CMA Center for Business & Sustainability, School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

• Alexandre Di Miceli da Silveira

  Professor, School of Economics, Business and Accounting, University of Sao Paulo (FEA-USP), Brazil

• Gabriel Eweje

  Associate Professor & Director of Sustainability & CSR Research Group, Department of Management & International Business, Massey University, New Zealand

• Hershey H. Friedman

  Professor, Department of Economics, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, USA

• Lyn Glanz

  Dean of Graduate Studies, Glion Institution of Higher Education and Les Roches-Gruyère University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

• Adrian Henriques

  Visiting Professor, Department of Business and Management, Middlesex University, UK

• Øyvind Ihlen

  Professor, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway

• Lin Jiang

  Professor of Management, Business School, Renmin University of China, China

• Eamonn Judge

  Professor & Research Director, Polish Open University, Poland

• Elizabeth C. Kurucz

  Assistant Professor, College of Management and Economics, University of Guelph, Canada

• Richard W Leblanc

  Associate Professor, School of Administrative Studies, York University, Canada

• Céline Louche

  Associate Professor, Audencia Nantes School of Management, France

• Christoph Luetge

  Peter Loescher Professor and Chair of Business Ethics, Technical University of Munich, Germany

• Guler Manisali-Darman

  Principal of the Corporate Governance and Sustainability Center, Turkey

• Malcolm McIntosh

  Professor & Director of Asia Pacific Center for Sustainable Enterprise, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia

• James McRitchie

  Publisher of CorpGov.net and consultant, USA

• Abagail McWilliams

  Professor, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

• Roland Perez

  Professor Emeritus, Economics and Management, University Montpellier I, France

• Yvon Pesqueux

  Chair of the Development of Organization Science, CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers), France; President-elect of International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM)

• David Pollard

  Reader in Technology Transfer and Enterprise, Faculty of Business and Law, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

• Lars Rademacher

  Professor, Department of Media Management, MHMK (Macromedia University of Applied Sciences), Germany

• Simon Robinson

  Professor of Applied and Professional Ethics, Director of the Centre for Governance, Leadership and Global Responsibility, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

• David Russell

  Head of Department of Accounting & Finance, Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, UK

• Ian Sanderson

  Professor Emeritus in Public Governance, Faculty of Business and Law, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

• Greg Shailer

  Director, Australian National Centre for Audit & Assurance Research (ANCAAR), The Australian National University, Australia

• John Shields

  Professor & Associate Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business, the University of Sydney, Australia

• Jim Stewart

  Professor of HRD & Leadership, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, UK

• Peter Stokes

  Professor of Sustainable Management, Marketing and Tourism, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Business, Enterprise & Lifelong Learning, University of Chester, UK

• Ralph Tench

  Professor of Communication, Faculty of Business and Law, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

• Christoph Van der Elst

  Professor of Law, Law School, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

• Wayne Visser

  Transnet Chair of Sustainable Business at Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), South Africa; Senior Associate, University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, UK

• Suzanne Young

  Associate Professor, La Trobe Business School, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Australia

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About the Volume Editors

Brian Jones is Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University. He has a BA (Honours) in Sociology from the University of Durham, MA, in Industrial Relations from the University of Warwick and a SERC/ESRC-funded PhD from the University of Bradford. His current research areas of interest are in enterprise and entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial marketing, family businesses, social media, and corporate social responsibility. He has published 15 academic journal papers, edited four books and written seven book chapters. He has worked on projects funded by Regional Development Agencies, Department for International Development, and the European Union (Erasmus +  and ERDF).

William Sun is Reader in Management, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Governance, Leadership and Global Responsibility at Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University, where he is also an Independent Chair for PhD Viva Voce Examinations. Dr Sun received his PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University in 2002. His research interests include corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, sustainable business, business ethics, corporate strategy and leadership, and process philosophy. He has published more than 50 journal papers and 16 academic books in corporate governance, CSR, corporate law, and transition economics. He is the author of the research monograph How to Govern Corporations So They Serve the Public Good: A Theory of Corporate Governance Emergence (Edwin Mellen, 2009) and the lead editor of the book Corporate Governance and the Global Financial Crisis: International Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Ralph Tench is Professor of Communication and Director of Research for Leeds Business School at Leeds Beckett University. Professor Tench’s research focuses on two communications strands, firstly for social impact and secondly in organizational strategy, behaviour and performance. His work involves national- and international-funded projects, including working with large organisations and business, such as the annual European Communication Monitor, the largest and longest running worldwide survey in strategic communication which started in 2007 and has funding through until 2022 (www.communicationmonitor.eu). He recently led a €600K EU project on climate change using deliberative engagement. He also completed a similar sized competency project for the communicators across Europe, again funded by the EU, and supports a new EU-funded SME e-learning project (SME-ELEARN). He is part of a research team into Whole Systems Obesity funded by Public Health England. He is a current consultant to the EU working the DG for Employment Services and has been a specialist review and evaluator for the Commission for research funds in 2017. He has written and edited 26 books; published over 30 academic journal papers; presented worldwide more than 60 peer-reviewed papers. His books include the market leading textbook for the public relations subject internationally, Exploring Public Relations, in its fourth edition and with a worldwide readership. Professor Tench is President (2017–2020) of the European Public Relations Research and Education Association (EUPRERA) where he has been a Board Director (2013–2017) and Head of Scientific Committee (2009–2014).

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Acknowledgements

The volume editors would like to thank all those that have engaged with and contributed to this volume. In particular individual chapter authors deserve praise and thanks for engaging so willingly with this project.

All chapters were anonymously peer reviewed and we would like to thank all the reviewers for their time, effort and professionalism that have ensured the quality and consistency of the contributions. The reviewers of the volume chapters are:

• Elisa Baraibar-Diez, Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, University of Cantabria, Spain

• Marie-Laure Baron, Associate Professor at Normandie Université, University of Le Havre, France

• Theresa Bauer, Professor of international management and marketing at SRH FernHochschule Riedlingen, Germany

• Justyna Berniak-Woźny, Vice-Head of Management Programmes at Vistula University, Poland

• Denitsa Blagova, independent researcher, Netherlands

• Paula Bögel, Researcher at the Chair for Human Behaviour and Sustainable Development, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany

• Bernd Britzelmaier, Professor at the Business School, Pforzheim University, Germany

• Urša Golob, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Patrick Kraus, External Researcher and Lecturer at Pforzheim University, Germany

• Henri Kuokkanen, Lecturer and Research Fellow, Glion Institute of Higher Education, Switzerland

• Paul Manning, Professor at the Chester Bysiness School, University of Chester, UK

• Cristina Mititelu, PhD in Public Management and Governance, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

• Kaja Tampere, Professor at Baltic Film, Media, Art and Communication Institute, Tallinn University, Estonia

• José Luis Fernández Sánchez, Professor at the Department of Business Administration, University of Cantabria, Spain

• Vera Ferrón Vílchez, Associate Professor at Economics and Business School, University of Granada, Spain

• Adrian Pablo Zicari, Professor at Essec Business School, Paris, France