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{"title":"Corporate social responsibility and organizational commitment: effects of CSR attitude, organizational trust and identification","authors":"Nimmy A. George, Nimitha Aboobaker, M. Edward","doi":"10.1108/sbr-04-2020-0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/sbr-04-2020-0057","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing from the social identity theory and social exchange theory, the purpose of this study is to examine the intervening mechanisms linking perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR) and employees’ affective organizational commitment. It is proposed that organizational trust (OT) and organizational identification (OID) would serially mediate the aforementioned relationship. Furthermore, this paper attempts to understand how employees’ attitude toward the importance of CSR (ICSR), moderates the linkages under the focus of this study.,This descriptive study was conducted among a sample of 519 employees working in the manufacturing sector in India. Self-reporting standardized questionnaires were administered among the respondents, who were selected through the judgment sampling method. Measurement model analysis was done using IBM AMOS 24.0 and Hayes’ PROCESS macro 3.0 (Models 6 and 84) was used for testing the serial mediation and moderated serial mediation.,Results revealed a significant indirect effect of all dimensions of CSR on employees’ affective commitment, serially mediated through OT and OID. The conditional indirect effects varied significantly and it was identified that CSR to customers and CSR to employees had a significant conditional indirect effect on affective commitment, through attitude toward the ICSR, OID and OT. However, the conditional indirect effect of CSR to social and non-social stakeholders on affective commitment was not statistically significant.,This study is pioneering in conceptualizing and empirically testing an integrated theoretical framework that models the influences of perceived CSR, employees’ attitude toward the ICSR, OID and OT on their affective commitment toward the organization. CSR plays a vital role in strengthening the employer-employee relationship and managers should facilitate a work environment that befits the alignment of organizational and individual ethics and values.","PeriodicalId":44608,"journal":{"name":"Society and Business Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"255-272"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/sbr-04-2020-0057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42171064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationship between MDA and juvenile crime and its impact on socioeconomic development – a theoretical framework for business and economics","authors":"M. Forhad, G. M. Alam","doi":"10.1108/sbr-03-2020-0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/sbr-03-2020-0051","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000A minimum dropout age (MDA) requires potential dropouts to stay in school until graduation. Most countries have an MDA at least 16. An MDA greater than 16 requires potential dropouts to stay in school for at least one more year, which immediately reduces their available time and opportunities to commit a crime in the community. This study aims to examine how a higher MDA reduces crime in the community. The authors then show a higher MDA helps potential dropouts to become an entrepreneur.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The authors develop an economic model of crime that shows how an MDA greater than 16 affects contemporaneous juvenile crime in the community. Considering an MDA of 16 as a benchmark MDA, a hypothetical example with simulated data on the USA is used. The authors then show how a higher MDA offers a financial opportunity for the professional development programs.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000An MDA greater than 16 reduces crime in the community. Reducing crime allows preventing social and monetary cost on juvenile delinquency. This economic efficiency offers a financial ability for adolescent training and other development programs and thereby reduces unemployment and other adverse consequences of the society.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000Unlike previous studies, the authors develop an economic model of crime that shows a hypothetical relationship between an MDA and contemporaneous juvenile crime in the community. A higher MDA allows more financial ability for juvenile development programs in high school to improve the entrepreneurial skills.\u0000","PeriodicalId":44608,"journal":{"name":"Society and Business Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/sbr-03-2020-0051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43972554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Guest editorial","authors":"Guillaume Delalieux, Anne-Catherine Moquet","doi":"10.1108/sbr-05-2020-151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/sbr-05-2020-151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44608,"journal":{"name":"Society and Business Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/sbr-05-2020-151","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43729234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of board characteristics on governance, environmental and ethical disclosure","authors":"Hanen Khaireddine, Bassem Salhi, Jabr Aljabr, Anis Jarboui","doi":"10.1108/sbr-05-2019-0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/sbr-05-2019-0067","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to investigate how board characteristics impact the governance, environmental and ethics disclosure. Board characteristics such as board size, gender diversity, board independence, CEO/chair duality and board meeting are included.,This study is based on a sample of 82 companies listed in the SBF120 between 2012 and 2017. A number of econometric techniques are used such as generalized least squares to test the panel regressions.,Board independence, board gender diversity and board meetings have a positive and significant influence on governance, environmental and ethics disclosure. Board size is positively and significantly associated only with corporate environmental disclosure. The adoption of Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI, G4) has not affected or biased the corporate governance (CG), environmental and ethics disclosure.,This study adds to the literature on management reporting behavior and ethics and contributes to the extant CG literature by offering new evidence on the disclosure of good CG practices as well as environmental and ethics behavior. This study offers new insights about the potential influence of board characteristics on such specific disclosure practices focusing “during the optional period of GRI4 and after their mandatory adoption”.","PeriodicalId":44608,"journal":{"name":"Society and Business Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"273-295"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/sbr-05-2019-0067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47880306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development aid and the governance of global value chains the case of the Bangladesh accord on fire and building safety","authors":"L. Beierlein","doi":"10.1108/sbr-10-2018-0126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/sbr-10-2018-0126","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relevance and contradictions of development aid in crafting governance responses for enabling long term social upgrading in global garment value chains. Since governance responses are multilevel, we propose to analyse the interrelation between the global and the local level through the case study of a private regulatory initiative of a new type: the Accord on Fire and Building Security in Bangladesh, operationally run like a development aid programme. We aim at explaining the reasons why it has been banned from operating in the country.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000We use the framework of the Global Value Chain (GVC) approach since it is operationally used in development aid and has broadened its focus to investigating the link between economic and social upgrading. It further helps to understand multilevel and multiactor governance responses. Using multiple secondary sources we describe the context in which the Accord emerged, explore its provisions and operations, and analyse the contestation pertaining to its termination. We analyse the Accord both as a global governance tool and a field-level development aid actor that addresses social issues in GVCs.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000As an ILO led operational programme, the Accord, since its inception, has proven globally effective at improving workplace safety for many workers. However it has been resented for being hegemonic and, as a governance tool, it has neither succeeded in addressing the flaws of private regulatory initiatives nor changed existing power relationships in GVCs.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The early termination of the Accord has not yet been analysed. In light of this, we propose new insights on the rising role of development aid in private governance responses.\u0000","PeriodicalId":44608,"journal":{"name":"Society and Business Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"95-117"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2020-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/sbr-10-2018-0126","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48597582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reintegrating prâxis, practices, phrónêsis and sustainable action for the relationship between business and society","authors":"W. Kuepers","doi":"10.1108/sbr-09-2018-0090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/sbr-09-2018-0090","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to propose to rehabilitate prâxis and revive possibilities of practical wisdom (phronesis) and a reinterpret excellence as an ethically committed way for responsible and sustainable form of living, while operating in the midst of a systematically constrained world of neoliberal regimes.,Based on a literature review, this essay first presents some basic understandings of prâxis, practices and its architecture as well as phronesis and its interconnection. Further, possibilities for integrating excellence in prâxis and success in poietic practice are suggested in form of a critical poietic phronesis, and some implications are outlined in conclusions.,Considering the systemic constrains of contemporary neoliberal regimes, this paper has shown the significance of a reviving the inter-relational nexus between prâxis, embodied practices, phronesis and sustainable action. An integral holonic approach of constrained prâxis was discussed, by which the macro-level is holonically connected to meso-level of likewise constrained practices to micro-level of action and vice versa. In particular, constrained excellence-oriented practical wisdom was connected with constraining result- and success- poiesis in a critical poietic phronesis and creative actions in inter-practices as part of inter-prâxis discussed.,The paper is a meta-reflective paper and view point, but links to “prâxis-related research” are offered.,Some practical and political implications are provided.,Some links to social and societal implications are discussed.,The proposed integration of prâxis, embodied practices, sustainable actions and practical wisdom for organisation and in relation to society is genuine and critical. It is orginal in that it provides possibilities to re-assess, re-vive and further investigate the relevance of embodied forms of an integral prâxis, practicing, phronesis and action in and through organizations as well as stakeholder towards a flourishing unfoldment.","PeriodicalId":44608,"journal":{"name":"Society and Business Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"338-359"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/sbr-09-2018-0090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46226312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding of grassroots innovations in India: evidence from the countryside","authors":"Sazzad Parwez, K. Shekar","doi":"10.1108/SBR-07-2018-0081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/SBR-07-2018-0081","url":null,"abstract":"Disadvantaged regions in India suffer from various forms of problems aggravated by constraints of accessibility. This paper aims to conceptualize innovations as solutions to the problem at grassroots.,This paper tries to bridge empirical gaps in conceptualization of innovations at grassroots with the application of both empirical and theoretical methods.,Grassroots innovation is an important instrument to solve such problems in these regions, where appropriate solution is not developed by the government instrument or private agencies (market) in general with various forms of value creation.,This paper tries to bridge empirical gaps in conceptualization of innovations at grassroots.","PeriodicalId":44608,"journal":{"name":"Society and Business Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"273-299"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/SBR-07-2018-0081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47701024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corporate social responsibility (CSR): an institutionalist Polanyian analysis","authors":"Nicolas Postel, R. Sobel","doi":"10.1108/sbr-07-2019-0096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/sbr-07-2019-0096","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to focus on the understanding corporate social responsibility (CSR), this “novel” form of corporate engagement, and evaluating its capacity to regulate capitalism. The authors advance the following thesis: CSR constitutes a new variety of regulation of capitalism which, to work efficiently, must be built on collective institutions (through both collective agreements and forms of coercion), instead of strictly contractual forms (based on inter-individual relations and voluntary commitments).,To support this thesis, the authors use Karl Polanyi’s theory, in particular his concept of “fictitious commodities”. Like Polanyi, we contend that CSR is a necessary reaction to the new “great transformation” brought about by the financialisation of our economy which is currently in crisis. Polanyi agrees that this kind of regulation can yield results only when based on collective institutions. In the last section of the study, the authors attempt to determine how a “conventionalist analysis” of CSR could help us to precisely describe this phenomenon and how it could be institutionalised by actors (both inside and outside companies).,This paper theoretically demonstrates the role of institutions in CSR processes and the need to weigh them theoretically. In this sense, the paper demonstrates the aporia of a strictly contractualist framework, not only for the understanding of the phenomenon, but for its deployment.,This study proposes a theoretical framework, which is yet to be consolidated by empirical research.,The paper proposes salient elements of a public policy of responsibility.,The paper proposes a methodological framework to go beyond a bilateral representation of the institutional framework and to produce a collective representation of the negotiation.,This is an original paper in its theoretical positioning and the implications it suggests for economic policy.","PeriodicalId":44608,"journal":{"name":"Society and Business Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"381-400"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/sbr-07-2019-0096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49618314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Negotiating new institutional logics","authors":"J. Luiz, Kondwani Kachika, Tapfumaneyi Kudzurunga","doi":"10.1108/sbr-01-2019-0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/sbr-01-2019-0015","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – This paper aims to analyse how processes of institutional change in environments of institutional ’voids’ affect smallholder farmer market access in Zambia and Malawi, and explores the role of different dis/enabling institutional agents and logics. The authors examine this in the context of two divergent routes of institutional change – one externally imposed and the second driven from within the ecosystem itself. The authors consider how these different institutional processes impact upon smallholder farmers and how they are able to adapt to these changes. \u0000Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative research approach is used which lends itself to an analysis of multiple institutional logics that is based upon the multiple positions of market actors. It uses a comparative case study design methodology focused on two broad cases of smallholder farmers in Zambia and Malawi. \u0000Findings – The research demonstrates the tension that multiple institutional logics can create especially amongst those most vulnerable particularly where these are not embedded in local realities and mindful of social settings. \u0000Originality/value – It contributes to the understanding of poverty alleviation in rural developing regions, on overcoming institutional voids, market inclusivity and the role of social entrepreneurs and intermediaries, and builds on the perspective of markets as social spaces for economic exchange.","PeriodicalId":44608,"journal":{"name":"Society and Business Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"360-377"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/sbr-01-2019-0015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41640232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Business and political process reform: ignore or engage?","authors":"R. Healy, Spiro Maroulis","doi":"10.1108/SBR-06-2018-0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/SBR-06-2018-0067","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the authors elaborate on why American businesses are often willing to advocate and deploy corporate political resources for or against specific governmental policies, but largely reluctant to engage in more general political process reform. Second, the authors introduce a set of ideas encouraging a business-driven political process reform in the USA, which the authors refer to as Corporate Political Responsibility (CPR).\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This paper reviews existing literature on why firms generally avoid advocating for political process reform to identify several firm-level impediments to such action. As an outcome of that review, a CPR governance concept – a derivative from the corporate responsibility literature – is proposed and unpacked as a proposition that if adopted by firms would encourage and support business-driven process reform advocacy.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The primary findings are that American firms lack a rationale justifying business political activity into the political process arena; a willingness to assume a high level of political risk associated with political process intervention; and an executable corporate mechanism for doing so.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000A second stage build out of the paper would involve at a minimum multiple research interviews with corporate executives and trade association officials to test the viability of the CPR proposal as to whether or not the proposed governance statement would liberate firms to advocate political process reform. This paper sets the predicate for additional research.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This paper may well be the first to identify the concept of CPR as a key corporate governance proposition. It is also likely the first to conceptualize CPR as more than a theoretical rendering – it is executable. Corporations can put CPR into practice through a firm’s Board of Directors endorsing a governance statement – Corporate Political Responsibility Protocol (CPR/P) – that transforms the CPR concept into a sanctioned firm activity, giving executives significant latitude to spend corporate resources advocating political process change. This paper suggests a variety of reform possibilities – electoral, campaign finance and legislative – that could benefit from business reform advocacy.\u0000","PeriodicalId":44608,"journal":{"name":"Society and Business Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/SBR-06-2018-0067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49096394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}