Purpose – The paper aims to test the proposition that action research conducted within an organisation can develop the kind of leadership capabilities that are likely to enhance sustainability outcomes. It seeks to report the conduct of an action research process used in FOXTEL to develop a...

Purpose – Efforts to address the role and responsibilities of large global corporations have predominantly focused on the need for increased and more effective global corporate governance, but this underestimates the need to articulate a global ethics for these corporations. This paper aims to...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to present the results of a content analysis of Canadian corporate sustainable development reports. Design/methodology/approach – A comparison of existing content analyses of corporate sustainable development reports was conducted. Based on the...

Purpose – The paper aims to explain why and how, in the USA, a very particular interpretation of economic liberalism, faring though different historical contexts, has generated, since the 1970s, a new kind of capitalism whose language, logic, legitimating paradigm and associated practices have...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss the idiosyncratic features of the adoption and institutionalization of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. Design/methodology/approach – This is a conceptual paper in which current theory on the institutionalization...

Purpose – For many years, the content and applicability of various forms of corporate responsibility (CR) for issues in the domain of sustainable development have been discussed within business and society. At times, both concepts are somehow connected to each other but so far they have not...

Purpose – According to recent developments in the literature, the spread of corporate social responsibility (CSR) principles would inevitably have a significant impact on foreign activities of multinational corporations (MNCs). Two forces seem to have influenced multinational firms' behavior:...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a procedure for identifying a corporate social responsibility (CSR) model with best goodness‐of‐fit. This research constructed a model of which CSR was mainly influenced by four core components: accountability, transparency,...

Purpose – The increasing demand of stakeholders' interests in social performance has put pressure on corporations to undertake social responsibility reporting in their operations in order to satisfy the demands and to gain public support. Some organisations have already responded, either by...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review research and strategies in Australian business education that aim to foster graduate capabilities in sustainability concepts and practices, also to present a case study of teaching practice along with ideas for future development....