I explore the limits of corporate responsibility standards - for example Social Accountability 8000 (SA 8000), the Global Reporting Initiative, the Fair Labor Association workplace code - by looking at these initiatives through Derrida's aporias of justice as set out in 'Force of Law: The...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly becoming a popular business concept in developed economies. As typical of other business concepts, it is on its way to globalization through practices and structures of the globalized capitalist world order, typified in Multinational...

While ethical and moral issues have been widely considered in the general areas of marketing and sales, similar attention has not been given to the impact of strategic account management (SAM) approaches to handling the relationships between suppliers and very large customers. SAM approaches...

There is a growing discussion of intellectual capital and the knowledge economy more generally within the accounting literature. This literature, however, has focused narrowly on the considerable discrepancy between book and market values and the inability of traditional accounting concepts and...

Background Contingency management (CM), despite the evidence base for its effectiveness, remains controversial, with sub-optimal implementation. In 2007, UK guidelines recommended the use of CM in publicly funded services, but uptake has also been minimal. Previous surveys of service providers...

Stakeholder theory has gained currency in the business and society literature in recent years in light␣of its practicality from the perspective of managers and scholars. In accounting for the recent ascendancy of␣stakeholder theory, this article presents an overview of␣two traditional...

Recent years have seen Corporate Responsibility (CR) developing rapidly as a key business issue. CR has increasingly come to embrace social, ethical as well as environmental and sustainability challenges. Addressing CR in the field of procurement is an especially prominent and demanding area of...