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...

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...

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an exploratory study of EI in the Lebanese context, investigating empirically variations in EI competency scores (self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, social awareness and social skills) in a sample of 225 Lebanese...

This paper examines the management of employee relations in South Asian firms in the UK independent restaurant sector. Key working practices pertaining to the employment relationship are examined in a particular socio-economic and spatial context. Acknowledging such contexts facilitates an...

This study investigates the extent to which South African (SA) listed corporations voluntarily disclose information on black economic empowerment (BEE) in their annual and sustainability reports and examines the possible motivations and resulting ownership and board factors influencing BEE...

The central thesis defended here is that we can have truth and objectivity in accounting. We do not contend that this potential is presently realized: On the contrary, we argue that certain contradictions immanent to capitalism give rise in late modernity to crisis tendencies in financial...

The thesis argues that insights into global economic alternatives can be gained from examining existing global cultures which are in contrast to the market. Religious movements form one of the most ancient, but also one of the most enduring and controversial examples of such global cultures....

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...