Social Responsibility Journal: Volume 4 Issue 1/2

Ethics and morality in human resource management

The paper seeks to focus on operationalising corporate social responsibility in the context of employee governance. Its purpose is to evaluate critically the ethics of…

Values in organizations: difficult to understand, impossible to internalize?

This paper aims to study personnel perceptions about value processing in three case organizations in the Finnish context, especially management's role in organizational change…

Corporate governance and innovative leaders

The purpose of this paper is to attract readers' attention to the importance of the integration of corporate governance and innovation for companies to strive further in business…

Moral commitments to community: mapping social responsibility and its ambiguities among small business owners

The purpose of this paper is to map the different moral positions articulated by small business owners in relation to social responsibility (SR) commitment and practice.

CSR, women and SMEs: the Croatian perspective

The purpose of this paper is to present the idea that CSR needs to be communicated from four different levels – government, community, company, and the individual. It also aims to…

Corporate ethics: an end to the rhetorical interpretations of an endemic corruption

Crime, fraud, and corruption, are all nouns that pertain to the act of deception that depicts an intention to increase an opportunity in one's favor in an unlawful manner that…

Corruption as a moral issue

Corruptive behaviour penetrates the business process itself and permeates the mental attitude of decision makers on all hierarchy levels. This paper seeks to present the special…

Can we teach ethics and professional deontology? An empirical study regarding the Accounting and Finance degree

This paper sets out to analyse the role of ethics and moral values in higher education, as well as the articulation with two important professions in the financial area, because…

Corporate social responsibility, new activism and public relations

This paper aims to analyse why some contemporary corporate organisations are reluctant to articulate the effect of their market positioning behaviour on the unwilling communities…

“What we learn today is how we behave tomorrow”: a study on students' perceptions of ethics in management education

The purpose of this paper is to investigate students’ perceptions of studying ethics in a business management degree.

Ten principles of corporate citizenship

This paper aims to reflect briefly on some of the major principles that have emerged from the developing policies, practices and debates about corporate citizenship in the last…

The “ethics” of being profit focused

This paper seeks to emphasise the importance of firms being responsible to society.

Revisiting rights and responsibility: the case of Bhopal

This paper seeks to examine the activities and consequential effects of a transnational corporation in a developing country. Via an examination of the industrial accident in…

Paradigms in corporate ethics: the legality and values of corporate ethics

It has always been claimed that business ethics are ambiguous and thus hard to define. As such, with recognizable unethical corporate behaviors as an epidemic, it is hard to hold…

Business ethics? A global comparative study on corporate sustainability approaches

The purpose of this paper is to see whether ethical and sustainable corporate strategy is not just an “add on” for good community relationships and publicity, and whether…

The organisation's captives: the no mean production of the contemporary administrative techniques

This paper seeks to understand administrative action, to know its deeper and excellent roots. Such roots, for the West, are based in the concept of reason and its derivatives.

Accountability discourses in advanced capitalism: who is now accountable to whom?

This paper aims to argue that the concept of “accountability” has changed and become perverted. Originally the concept meant answerability or the act of rendering an account…

Corporate social responsibility in India: towards a sane society?

Based on a survey, this paper seeks to confirm that Indian corporates are already working on the guideline of the Global Compact.

“Me, myself & I”: practical egoism, selfishness, self‐interest and business ethics

This paper aims to elucidate some of the arguments against egoism in the current debate, as well as to create some new arguments, or rather objections (epistemological and…

Fighting a smoky fire: an analysis of Philip Morris's CEO speeches according to image restoration strategies

This paper seeks to investigate Philip Morris's responses to a decade‐long crisis through the analysis of its CEO's speeches. It also aims to reveal the rich potential of…

Back to basics: an Islamic perspective on business and work ethics

In the light of major corporate failures worldwide, business ethics have become an increasingly important area of managerial competence and responsibility. Most studies on…

Ethics and morality in business practice

Special issue on Globalization, sustainable development and socially responsible initiatives in developing countries

Special issue on Corporate social responsibility in transitional economies

7th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility