Corporate social responsibility now touches upon most aspects of the interaction between business and society. The approaches taken to research in this area are as varied as the topics that are researched; yet this is the first book to address the whole range of methods available. The book...

Contents: Introduction / David Crowther and Linne Marie Lauesen -- Part I: Methodology planning -- 1. Grounded theory in corporate social responsibility research / Vilma Žydžiūnaitė and Loreta Tauginienė -- 2. Using a mixed methods approach for corporate social responsibility research /...

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...

Accounting ethics education : is there a difference between developed and developing countries? / Kiymet Tunca Caliyurt -- Beyond social responsibility discourse / Marcelo Fernando López Parra & Mariana Lima Bandeira -- Corporate social responsibility in a dialectical frame : the HIH collapse...

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...

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...

Purpose: This paper evaluates the development of reporting standards for both financial reporting and for corporate social responsibility reporting. We argue that both IFRS and US GAAP are vehicles of colonial exploitation and cannot be sustainable. This can be contrasted with the voluntary...