Sustainable Research on Corporate Social Responsibility
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 August 2023) | Viewed by 6305
Special Issue Editors
Interests: corporate social responsibility; dispersal of responsibility theory; human resources management; project management; ethics issues in internet communication; corporate reputation management; integrating reporting
Interests: entrepreneurship, small businesses management and SMEs: corporate social responsibility, sustainability and entrepreneurial business ethics; sustainable tourism; benefit corporations; cultural heritage revitalization; cultural ecclesiastic heritage management; integrated reporting; social and environmental accounting; accounting and gender
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
COVID-19 caused the recent crisis that the entire world is facing—a pandemic that has forced all organizations to rethink their mission and vision, whether public or private. The body of literature surrounding the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) encompasses many views regarding the audience from which some indicators should be measured, and most research studies have interpreted this construct from a general perspective.
The universal approach that claimed CSR measurement is based on the premise that a similar set of criteria that can be used for all groups of stakeholders should be critically analyzed. Therefore, different approaches will improve the literature and practice of CSR in different spheres of activity around the world to capture the complex significance of the concept.
The paper may contribute to developing the dispersal of responsibility theory, explaining the source of the problems and the crisis at an individual, organizational, national, and international level (Burlea-Schiopoiu and Remme, 2017; Burlea-Schiopoiu and Idowu, 2016). Burlea Schiopoiu elaborated this theory, intending to explain one of the causes of crises, and she started from the assumption that crises, regardless of their nature, have always been and will continue to be present in every field of activity and every sphere of society.
Experts and scientists consider that crises cannot be entirely avoided because a crisis, in its structure, is a cyclic phenomenon that affects different sectors of activities in different moments. Therefore, an increasing interest in preventing and diminishing the effects of crises can be noted. However, it is expected that no main results will ever be obtained if the leading cause of a crisis is neglected.
This Special Issue invites academic articles that contribute to our knowledge and understanding of corporate social responsibility within public and private organizations, including but not limited to the topics below:
- Corporate social responsibility.
- Corporate governance.
- Corporate reputation.
- Green human resources management.
- Quality management.
- Knowledge management.
- Corporate risk.
- Sustainability practices.
- Stakeholders theory.
- Business ethics.
- Integrated reporting.
Prof. Dr. Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu
Prof. Dr. Mara Del Baldo
Dr. Samuel O Idowu
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- corporate social responsibility
- corporate governance
- sustainability practices
- stakeholders theory
- risk management
- integrating reporting
- corporate reputation
