Connecting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with Corporate Governance (CG) is a 21st Century challenge. This edited volume illustrates that CSR can be used as a tool to improve Corporate Governance in organizations and improve the relationship between business and society. Moreover the book argues that they should be treated together in synergy in management literature. This two volume work connects these two crucial business functions, describing the preconditions for successful integration and the tools for practical implementation.
Volume 2 puts forward eight recommendations for practice. Contributors put forward research and implications for policy and practice including coverage of knowledge management strategy, socially responsible banking operations and transparency procedures in the context of emerging economies.
Author(s): Matjaž Mulej, Grażyna O’Sullivan, Tjaša Štrukelj
Series: Palgrave Studies in Governance, Leadership and Responsibility
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 296
City: Cham
Foreword
References
Contents
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Social Responsibility: An Application of and Support to Systemic Behaviour
1.1 Introduction: The Need for Social Responsibility—A Consequence of the One-Sidedness of the Globally Influential Humans and Organizations
1.2 Humankind’s Need for a Model of Life After the Neoliberal Monopolies
1.3 Social Responsibility—The Alternative Model of Life After the Neoliberal Monopolies
1.4 Development Economics’ View: Social Responsibility Offers the Way Out from the Current Crisis of Affluence
1.5 The Humankind’s Way of Thinking and Evaluation to Be Overcome; from the Analytical to the Systemic Behavior
1.6 Bertalanffy, Wiener—The Essence of Systemic Behavior: Fight the Human One-Sidedness by Creative Interdisciplinary Cooperation Supportive of Requisite Holism
1.7 Dialectical Systems Theory (DST)
1.8 Briefing of Corporate Lawyers’ Suggestions on Support to Social Responsibility
1.9 Conclusions
References
2 Knowledge Management Strategy for Achieving Innovation-Driven Knowledge-Cum-Values Behaviour
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Application of Dialectical Systems Theory as a Methodology
2.3 Enterprise Governance and the Resulting Business Policy, Values Management and Knowledge Management in Interdependence
2.4 Human Resource Management and Knowledge-Cum-Values Management in Interdependence
2.5 Discussion
2.6 Practical Recommendations
2.7 Conclusions
References
3 The Comedy of Big Data or: Corporate Social Responsibility Today, While Corporations Wither Away?
3.1 Introduction
3.2 New Trends in CSR or New Conditions of Production?—Some Reflections on the Foundations of Shifts in Management Strategies
3.3 New Patterns …
3.4 … Failing to Meet the Challenges?
3.4.1 Can Institutions Have Responsibility?
3.4.2 Can Responsibility Be Reduced on Moral and Ethical Attitudes and Normative Definitions?
3.5 The Real Meaning of Digitisation—From the Deathbed of the National Welfare State to the Crèche of a Global Social Quality State
3.6 Appendix—Far from Appendicitis—As Conclusions
References
4 Information Management About Social Competences in a Network Economy for the Needs of the Development of Corporate Social Responsibility
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Corporate Social Responsibility in the Area of Education
4.3 Corporate Social Responsibility in the Area of Education Implemented in a Network of Cooperating Enterprises
4.4 Information Management in the Area of Corporate Social Responsibility on the Example of the Educational and Economic Network of the Wielkopolska Region
4.5 Required Social Competences in Shaping the Attitudes of Corporate Social Responsibility Leaders
4.6 Conclusions
References
5 The Unsustainability of Banking Operations in the Republic of Croatia vis-à-vis Social (Ir-)Responsibility
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Briefly About Banks in Croatia
5.3 Features of Banking Operations During the First Stage
5.3.1 The First Banking Crisis
5.3.2 The Second Banking Crisis
5.3.3 Consequences of Banking Crises
5.4 Features of Banking Operations During the Second Stage
5.4.1 Exposure of Clients to Price Risk
5.4.2 Exposure of Clients to Currency Risk
5.4.3 Activities of the CNB
5.5 Features of Banking Operations During the Third Stage
5.5.1 Reasons for Credit Crunch and Non-lending
5.5.2 Activities of the CNB and the Legislator
5.6 Business Operations Comparison and Future Perspectives
5.7 Conclusions
References
6 Quality of Life, Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility of Business in the Qualitological Aspect
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Qualitology—The Science of Quality
6.3 Increase in the Quality of Life
6.3.1 Sustainable Development and Increase in the Quality of Life
6.3.2 Corporate Social Responsibility and Increase in the Quality of Life
6.4 Work-Life Balance as a Response to the Postulates of Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility
6.5 Indicators of Quality of Life— Somatic Functions
6.6 Conclusions
References
7 Governance and Socially Responsible Behavior in the Local Municipality
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Local Governance and Socially Responsible Behavior
7.3 Examples of Socially Responsible Behavior in Local Municipalities
7.3.1 Socially Responsible Behavior of the Bratislava City District Rača
7.3.2 Participatory Activities in the Local Municipalities
7.3.2.1 Participatory Budgeting in Banská Bystrica
7.3.2.2 Participative Planning—City Interventions
7.3.2.3 Community Organizing in City Banská Bystrica
7.4 Conclusions
References
8 Transparency and Disclosure Regulations—A Valuable Component of Improving Corporate Governance Practice in Transition Economies
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Theoretical Background
8.2.1 Agency Problem and Transparency
8.2.2 Institutional Environment and Transparency
8.2.3 Mandatory and Voluntary Transparency and Disclosure Regulations and Mechanisms
8.3 Empirical Research
8.3.1 Research Methodology
8.3.2 Institutional Framework and Regulations on Transparency and Disclosure in Slovenia
8.3.3 Sample and Data Collection
8.3.4 Demographic Data on Companies in the Sample
8.3.5 Results with Discussion
8.4 Conclusions
References
9 Employee Performance and Corporate Social Responsibility
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Methodology
9.3 Theoretical Backgrounds
9.3.1 Employee Performance
9.3.2 Theories as the Basics of Performance Management Systems
9.3.2.1 Goal Theory
9.3.2.2 The Theory of Expectations
9.3.2.3 Control Theory
9.3.3 Transition from Traditional to New Performance Management System
9.3.4 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
9.3.5 Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Performance
9.4 Discussion
9.5 Conclusions
9.5.1 Theoretical Implications
9.5.2 Managerial Implications
9.5.3 Implications for Practice
9.5.4 Policy Implications
9.5.5 Future Research
References
10 E-Government
10.1 Introduction
10.2 E-Government Complexities
10.3 Methodology
10.3.1 Bibliometric Mapping of E-Government Research and Citation Analysis
10.3.2 Data Set
10.4 Results of Analysis
10.4.1 Distribution of Articles
10.4.2 The Most Prolific Journals in E-Government Field
10.5 E-Government and Digital Society
10.6 Discussion and Conclusion
References
Index
