Kybernetes: Volume 50 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Igor Perko, Vladimir Lepskiy

Towards a holistic view of corporate social responsibility. The antecedent role of information asymmetry and cognitive distance

Francesco Caputo

This paper aims to enlarge ongoing debate about corporate social responsibility (CSR) proposing reflections about the role of cognitive and information flows in influencing…

Artificial intelligence and social responsibility: the case of the artificial intelligence strategies in the United States, Russia, and China

Anton Saveliev, Denis Zhurenkov

The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze how the development and utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for social responsibility are defined in the…

Hybrid reality development - can social responsibility concepts provide guidance?

Igor Perko

This paper aims to define hybrid reality (HyR) as an ongoing process in which artificial intelligence (AI) technology is gradually introduced as an active stakeholder by using…

An agenda for ontological cybernetics and social responsibility

Raul Espejo, Vladimir Lepskiy

This paper aims to offer an integration of Vladimir Lepskiy’s third-order cybernetics and Raul Espejo’s Viplan methodology. Key ideas are mechanisms for social responsibility and…

Government investment strategy and platform pricing decisions with the cross-market network externality

Xiaoping Xu, Guowei Dou, Yugang Yu

Considering the cross-market network externality, this paper aims to explore the platform’s pricing decisions and its optimal profit under the given government investment, and…

R&D investment, ESG performance and green innovation performance: evidence from China

Jian Xu, Feng Liu, Yue Shang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of research and development (R&D) investment and environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance on green innovation…

Implications for pure profit, environmental impact and social welfare in a socially responsible supply chain

Zhichao Zhang, Haiyan Xu, Zhi Liu, Yinhai Fang

Members in a supply chain account for corporate social responsibility (CSR) in different ways. This paper considers a socially responsible supply chain in which the manufacturer…

Convergent social responsibility as the key to corporate strategic success

Alexander Nikolaevich Raikov

This paper aims to increase corporate social responsibility (CSR), including business acting in an ethical and transparent way, through the prism of strategic conversation with…

Society 5.0: balancing of Industry 4.0, economic advancement and social problems

Vojko Potočan, Matjaž Mulej, Zlatko Nedelko

The purpose of this paper is to report about research how Society 5.0 balances Industry 4.0, responsible economic development and resolution of social problems by advancement of…

The viable system model’s support to social responsibility

Tjaša Štrukelj, Dejana Zlatanović, Jelena Nikolić, Simona Sternad Zabukovšek

The consequences of human social irresponsibility urge socially responsible reactions. The authors expose the consequences of socially irresponsible behaviour and state possible…

Co-design of a stakeholders’ ecosystem: an assessment methodology by linking social network analysis, stakeholder theory and participatory mapping

Dario Cottafava, Laura Corazza

The need for stakeholder theory has been widely highlighted in the literature to develop solid strategies for a large organization. However, there is still a lack of user-friendly…