The Encyclical-Letter "Caritas in Veritate" by Pope Benedict XVI suggests to advance towards a new conceptualization of the tenuous relationship between economics and ethics, proposing a “new humanistic synthesis”. Where social encyclicals have traditionally justified policy proposals by...

The social sector or social economy is still at a developing stage and the concept of social entrepreneurship is just in the emergence phase in Romania. There is still a lot to do in this field, in order to create sustainability among the actors of the social economy or social sector. The paper...

The volume contains the papers presented during the 9th International Congress of the International Association on Public and Nonprofit Marketing (IAPNM) entitled "Regulation and Best Practices in Public and Nonprofit Marketing", organised by the Faculty of Public Administratiom of National...

The purpose of the present study was to explore the association between board functioning, the financial success of school systems and the quality of education measured through national standardized tests (SIMCE). A correlational design was employed complemented with semi-structured interviews...

This paper is based on the fact that foundations need to end their isolation, via accountability and practising social responsibility. This task can be accomplished using the social balance, which is defined as the ideal instrument for communication between foundations and the Administrations...

The relationship with the environment is a key area in the twenty-first century university and higher education institutions to recognize the media as a vital and strategic tools to facilitate and enhance that relationship. In search of greater inclusion in society, the university had acquired a...

In the context of enterprise responsibility, some refer to social Responsibility alone, whereas others make a distinction with regard to Societal Responsibility. By Societal is meant : "what concerns the structure, the organization, the functioning of society". This distinction is the...

This paper gives a game-theoretical treatment of the institutional homogenization of value-oriented firms. It explains why intrinsically motivated, value-oriented firms like non-profits may become similar to for-profit firms in terms of organization and norms. It highlights and explains the...

This paper examines whether effective governance plays a major role in driving foundations’ strategy when it comes to making the choice between reactive or proactive philanthropy models. More specifically, we investigate the relationships between philanthropic strategy (expressive, receptive,...

Marktarenen sind wesentliche Orte der subpolitischen Konfliktaustragung um die Durchsetzung universaler, menschenrechtlicher Normen auf transnationaler Ebene geworden. Der Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit Aushandlungsprozesse zwischen Unternehmen und unternehmenskritischen Kampagnen zur Etablierung...