This paper explains the concept of corporate social responsibility and examines the use of corporate social responsibility in organizational change management. The concept of CSR is well researched but implementation of CSR is not well researched. Here we examine the role of ICT and how it affects CSR. In this paper we see how ICT and CSR facilitate the implementation of change in organization ...

The importance of Nondestructive Testing (NDT) as a Quality Control/ Quality Assurance tool in the industrial domain cannot be over-emphasized. With the rapid advancement in research and technology, the NDT field is becoming larger and more sophisticated day by day. Innovative research in materials science and digital technology is paving the way for more and more new methods in NDT technology....

Many States are moving away from a very active role in the supervision of aviation activities. The reasons for this include the large number of inspectors required to perform this function, confusion over safety responsibilities and the need for a large enforcement organization, factors are assumed to contradict the safety culture that is promoted as being an important factor in safety manageme...

In this article we examine the emergence of knowledge management (KM) within the professionalisation of festivals and events. The growing complexity of festival management places pressure on organisations to effectively manage ‘knowledge’ in order to succeed. Knowledge is commonly conceptualised as information that can be stored or itemised through checklists. We offer an alternative conceptual...

?2.25 45s Philosophical discussions of responsibility , freedom of the will and such subjects seem often to stand at an enormous distance from the more immediate problems of psychiatry and the law. That they should stand at some distance is inevitable and no bad thing, but to keep them too far apart for too long has, among other bad effects, the rather paradoxical one of making both parties con...

As understanding of corporate responsibility grows so does the recognition of the complexity and scale of the challenge it represents for companies. It is no longer enough to have a Corporate Responsibility (CR) team – CR is expected to be integrated across an organisation’s entire business. What are the skills, competencies and knowledge required if CR is to be integrated across organisations,...

This article reviews prior academic research on end of life (EOL) product recovery, a component of extended producer responsibility (EPR), focusing on the management literature. Both non-market and market pressures are driving companies to take greater responsibility for their EOL products, including taking them back from customers. Several ideas are proposed for further research that would be ...