Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) fulfill a vital role in society, filling the gap often left between civic responsibility undertaken through an agency of the government and personal responsibility often undertaken through the family. İndeed the modern streamlined state very often...

It is quite noticeable how much more prominent CSR has become – not just in the academic world and in the business world but also is everyday life. There are obviously a lot of factors which have led to this increasing interest – such things as poor business behavior and the issue of climate...

It is clearly accepted that good corporate governance is fundamental to the successfully continuing operating of any corporation; hence much attention has been paid to the procedures of such governance. Often however what is actually meant by the corporate governance of a firm is merely assumed...

A perennial problem with the management of a business has been concerned with the relationship between the managers of a business and its owners and investors, which is of course known as the agency problem. It is generally accepted that the information asymmetry which inevitably exists in this...

Although it is an accepted methodology to exclude financial companies from any comparative financial analysis of a sample of companies when performance is being analyzed, and this exclusion is due to the different financial structure of such organization, it seems to have also become standard...

It is customary to consider SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) as a separate category of organisations when investigating and analysing business activities. Thus any organisation with less than 250 employees is considered to be an SME while an organisation with more than 250 employees...

There has been considerable debate about the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate governance and corporate and social performance but in recent years the term corporate social responsibility has gained prominence, both in business and in the press to such an...

Corporate governance is fundamental to the continuing operating of any corporation; hence much attention has been paid to the procedures of such governance. Similarly sustainability is fundamental to the continuing operating of any corporation, and is arguably the fashionable concept of the...

Over recent years there has been a focus in corporate activity upon the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and one of its central platforms, the notion of sustainability, and particularly sustainable development. We argue in this paper that the use of such a term has the effect of...

It is clear that the definition of corporate governance has extended considerably beyond investor relations and encompasses relations with all stakeholders – including the environment. This is essential for the longer term survival of a firm and is therefore a key component of sustainability....