To be considered a socially entrepreneurial organization today requires achieving what can be termed a “hybrid middle ground” equilibrium, comprising of economic as well as social sustainability. This middle ground requires some blend of both business and social commitments. In this paper, we use the case of Hungary's second ranked mobile operator, Telenor Hungary to illustrate an example of a ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the intersection of sustainability and global IT outsourcing (GITO). GITO is well established as a business practice towards reducing costs and improving performance. Sustainability issues related to carbon footprint and greenhouse gases are increasingly important for all organizations. Responsible and economic energy management is a critical bu...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a new trend of business governance. Few research studies on CSR published in Taiwanese academia, especially for medical settings, we were interested in probing the relationship of CSR and financial performance in medical settings in Taiwan. The results illustrate that: (1) a time delay effect exists with a lag between CSR effort and its performan...

Organizations’ activities impact on environment, economy and society. The recognition of business effects is the basis of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Nevertheless, not all social responsibility issues have the same relevance for every organization. The evaluation of CSR performance depends on those dimensions and stakeholders that are really affected by company activities. Moreov...

In the last two decades corporate social responsibility (CSR), particularly when related to environmental issues, has been discussed extensively in the business literature. However, defining and measuring CSR remains a complicated process. One of the main reasons for the problematic measurement of CSR is the absence of a common framework in which business-society relations will be included. Wit...

This article explores informal information exchange in social care, and implications for formal monitoring with an electronic social care record (ESCR). Six homecare settings were studied over 14 months between 2001 and 2002. Participant observation methods were used with the recipients of homecare (n = 7) and in-depth interviews plus participant observation with formal care workers (n = 31). A...

this paper aims to consider the relationship between social capital and social responsibility in islamic azad university – firouzkouh branch. the population of research all faculty members, managers and experts employed in islamic azad university - firouzkouh branch. the sample sizeincludes 157 peopledetermined by jeris-morgan formula using the stratified random sampling method. firstly, a ques...

Morally motivated individuals behave more cooperatively than predicted by standard theory. Hence, if a firm can attract workers who are strongly motivated by ethical concerns, moral hazard problems like shirking can be reduced. We show that employers may be able to use the firm’s corporate social responsibility profile as a screening device to attract more productive workers. Both pooling and s...

There are existing studies that successfully show the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on firms’ financial performance. However, limited attention is paid to its impact on the business ecosystem. CSR could be seen as an investment for building a sustainable business ecosystem, which enhances the competitiveness of this system’s members. In that context, this study apprehends and ...

1. CSR: Much disorder under the sun For a long time corporate ethical and social responsibility has been a subject of analysis and concern for highly active and committed but not exactly majority groups of business ethics scholars, NGO's activists, and firms with forward-looking managers. Mo re recently, on the contrary, it seems that there is no trade or business association, local or national...