India is a developing country. Corporate Social Responsibility has traditionally been seen as a philanthropic activity in India. It is an activity that is performed in keeping with the Indian tradition but not deliberated. At present it has emerged as a benchmark for judging corporate...

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...

The trend toward increased levels of business interconnectedness in the value chain has clouded the issue of responsibility for business practices. Firms have historically denied responsibility for many questionable practices by suggesting that such acts were committed somewhere else in the...

We are no longer an industrial economy characterized by assembly lines; we are now in a knowledge economy where creativity is what matters and the old ways of running a firm simply do not work. This paper discusses a new paradigm for corporate ethics and leadership that includes factors that...

The social responsibility of business organisations is getting increased attention in recent years, and a strong perception has developed among the business managers worldwide and that organisations need to be managed in a socially responsible way for economic viability and long term...

This paper discusses the integration of sustainability concepts into a quantitative supply chain management course in management science. Specifically, we discuss an exercise using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for making sustainability supplier selection decisions incorporating a triple...

Companies that are going to thrive must have a soul. Those that are only concerned with “maximizing shareholder wealth” or “maximizing profit” will find themselves going the way Enron went. CEOs will have to lead the revolution and should be the ones exhorting executives to make...

This article explores three literature bases in some depth: strategy, stakeholder/social issues, and the newly emerging works in reputation. The focus is on the potential research and practical overlaps that exist in these literatures. A model of reputation is developed that highlights these...

Corporate social performance (CSP) is an elusive concept for managers and a difficult one to measure. Part of the challenge lies, as with the CSP–corporate financial performance literature, in the operationalization of the relationship between CSP and overall organizational performance that...