Over the past 20 years, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has moved to the forefront of all business interactions, most specifically in western business practices. Corporate U.S. scandals including Enron, World Com, and the housing and foreclosure crises have led to shifts in how companies conduct business and how transparent they...

What happens when critical services are subject to a strike, how does it affect the general public? Strikes leads to many factors that contribute to some activities in the communities and to the world as a whole, of which some of these factors are positive or negative. These factors have...

Socially responsible organizations (SROs) are trending. A recent interview with David Carrey, a global manager at CECP, a coalition of CEOs engaged in positive social change, revealed his expectations that 2017 would see increased integration of business practices and social strategies, longer term commitment to this integration, increasing recognition of...

This is written in response to the Board’s request for assistance in helping the Houston Food Bank (HFB) to develop and implement social initiatives. Clearly an organization’s decision to engage in corporate social responsibility efforts is not to be taken lightly, in so much as it confers benefits on both...

The first article is titled, “The Causal Effect of Corporate Governance on Corporate Social Responsibility”. The authors are Jo Hoje and Maretno A. Harjoto. The purpose of the study it examines the association between corporate governance and corporate social responsibilities. The author’s statement is that establishing the causality between corporate...