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...

The current crises in the UK – economic, political, financial and social – have created an opportunity to re-examine the social contract and the functioning of civil society. Many people have commented upon these crises, their causes and consequences and there have been many attempts to...

Since the dawn of the computer age it seems that the pace of development of information technology has continued to increase and that this pace of development shows no sign of slowing down. Computers are now a feature of everyday life, evident in the workplace, in our leisure activities and even...

Good governance is good PR, it is important in every sphere of society, whether it be the corporate environment, the political, or wider society. When resources are too limited to meet the minimum expectations of the people, it is a good governance level that can help to promote the welfare of...

Many concepts have appeared fashionable as a process of business management and the latest of these is connected to sustainability. Often these concepts are merely refinements of other concepts but are presented as the answer to managing a business. We argue in this paper that these concepts do...

The current economic situation has highlighted deficiencies in corporate governance while also showing the importance of stakeholder relations. It has also raised the profile of the debates regarding corporate social responsibility and shown the inter-relationship with governance. And the two...

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...

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...