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The impact of incongruity between an organization's CSR orientation and its employees' CSR orientation on employees' quality of work life

21 Décembre

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Publication date: January 2015
Source:Journal of Business Research, Volume 68, Issue 1

Author(s): Anusorn Singhapakdi , Dong-Jin Lee , M. Joseph Sirgy , Kalayanee Senasu

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has emerged as an important topic. The focus of this research is on the impact of incongruity between an organization's CSR orientation and its employees' CSR orientation on two dimensions of employees' quality of work life (QWL)—lower- and higher-order need satisfaction. The sample consists of employees of six companies selected from different sectors in Thailand. The results indicate that incongruence between employee's and firm's CSR orientation is negatively associated with both lower- and higher-order need satisfaction.

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How does corporate social responsibility contribute to firm financial performance? The mediating role of competitive advantage, reputation, and customer satisfaction

21 Décembre

Clics: 9401

Articles scientifiques

Publication date: February 2015
Source:Journal of Business Research, Volume 68, Issue 2

Author(s): Sayedeh Parastoo Saeidi , Saudah Sofian , Parvaneh Saeidi , Sayyedeh Parisa Saeidi , Seyyed Alireza Saaeidi

Direct relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm performance has been examined by many scholars, but this direct test seems to be spurious and imprecise. This is because many factors indirectly influence this relation. Therefore, this study considers sustainable competitive advantage, reputation, and customer satisfaction as three probable mediators in the relationship between CSR and firm performance. The findings from 205 Iranian manufacturing and consumer product firms reveal that the link between CSR and firm performance is a fully mediated relationship. The positive effect of CSR on firm performance is due to the positive effect CSR has on competitive advantage, reputation, and customer satisfaction. The final findings show that only reputation and competitive advantage mediate the relationship between CSR and firm performance. Taken together, these findings suggest a role for CSR in indirectly promoting firm performance through enhancing reputation and competitive advantage while improving the level of customer satisfaction.

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Utopian thinking and the collective mind: Beyond transdisciplinarity

21 Décembre

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Articles scientifiques

Publication date: Available online 18 November 2014
Source:Futures

Author(s): Valerie A. Brown

The future is frequently presented as a forced choice between human sustainability and human extinction, utopia or dystopia. This paper examines a different option: to develop the full capacity of the human mind to remain open to all possibilities, guided by utopian thinking. An inquiry into the creative potential of the human mind finds that collective thinking from a collective mind goes beyond transdisciplinarity as currently constructed. In collective thinking, knowledge boundaries are reframed as dynamic inter-relationships, and due weight is given to each of personal, physical, social, ethical, aesthetic, sympathetic and reflective ways of knowing. In applying the collective mind in these times of transformational change, there is hope is for innovative solutions to seemingly intractable, aptly labelled wicked problems.

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An actor-specific guideline for quality assurance in transdisciplinary research

21 Décembre

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Articles scientifiques

Publication date: Available online 20 November 2014
Source:Futures

Author(s): Thomas Jahn , Florian Keil

Transdisciplinarity has a long tradition – both in terms of academic discourse and research practice. The proliferation of transdisciplinary research (TDR) has, however, only progressed moderately up until now. The main reason for this is the lack of a generally accepted quality standard for TDR. In addition to meeting the quality standards of excellence of ‘normal science’, TDR is supposed to respond to a variety of societal demands. Establishing a quality standard that incorporates these requirements would only be possible in the long-term as it calls for far reaching changes on both an institutional level as well as that of science as a whole. Building up a practice of quality assurance in TDR today lays the necessary foundation to bring about such changes. The aim of this paper is to present a ready-to-use quality guideline which we intend will contribute to that foundation. The guideline is customized to such TDR that aims to bring specific knowledge to bear on policy issues relating to sustainable development. The guideline addresses three groups of actors: researchers, program mangers or donors and policymakers. It shows these actors what they can do specifically to assure the quality of the transdisciplinary research process.

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