Formerly, it was considered that the main task of corporate sector is to ensure economic performance. Nowadays, this attitude has changed and term bottom line been replaced by triple line. Accordingly, not only financial performance but also impact on environment society in which organization operates taken into consideration when measuring its effectiveness. Today, a corporation expected opera...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a concept that based on the idea of balance between economic, social, and environmental goals companies. In contemporary business, companies need to be responsible not just their shareholders, but broader stakeholders, where employees, customers, investors, suppliers, local community, natural environment are mostly affected. Also, CSR seen as can enhance...

This paper studies the implications of directors’s expertise for optimal board structure. The expertise of directors is particularly important when the company’s management does not cooperate with the board, and directors must rely on their own judgment when making decisions. The results of this paper demonstrate that even when the board acts in its shareholders’best interests, its expertise ca...

The work presented in this thesis is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, original, except as acknowledged in the text. The material has not been submitted, either in whole or in part, for a degree at this or any other university. I Acknowledgements I would like to express my deepest gratitude towards Dr. Kelvin Tan, whose insightful guidance, generous help and encouragement have helped me ...

Increasingly, web surveys are being used to supplement telephone survey data and some predict internet methods will one day replace telephone interviews as the primary method for surveying general populations. Despite these trends, few studies have systematically compared response differences between the two methods. This article describes a study in which both telephone and web surveys were us...

www.palgrave-journals.com/crr/ ABSTRACT Considering the gap between theoretical deliberations about strategic importance of Corporate Communications (CC) and the lack of faith of top management in CC practitioners, I adopt a practice-based approach to study roles, structure, strategic contribution and interfunctional coordination of CC of 25 organizations. In-depth, open-ended, semi-structured ...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is not a new concept, but unfortunately has been defined in so many ways, it is often misinterpreted. In fact it has had 40 years to evolve from a somewhat infant concept to a successful managerial tool to build a company’s reputation in the global market arena. Corporate social responsibility has become corporate strategic responsibility — an imperative el...