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Corporate Social Responsibility in Romanian Higher Education
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Albrecht, Patrick: “Application of Corporate Social Responsibility Concepts on Public Universities”.
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This paper addresses the question of general applicability of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on public universities. Normative reasoning provided by Stakeholder Theory is given particular consideration. Furthermore, the role of universities is reflected in the light of sustainable development as key challenge. To develop a better understanding of university’s efforts, the case of Lüneburg University is discussed. This university is chosen as it plays a key role in the European university’s network for sustainability “Copernicus Campus” and hosts a research and development project aiming to improve the understanding of a “Sustainable University”. The essential question is should Universities care about CSR.
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David Owen (2005): “Corporate Social Reporting and Stakeholder Accountability The Missing Link”.
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Recent years have witnessed a significant degree of administrative reform, in terms of the increasing number of major companies proclaiming their social responsibility credentials, and backing up their claims by producing substantial environmental, social and sustainability reports. The paper critically evaluates the degree of institutional reform, designed to empower stakeholders, and thereby enhance corporate accountability, accompanying these voluntary initiatives, together with that potentially ensuing from proposed regulations for mandatory publication of an Operating and Financial Review by UK quoted companies. It is concluded that both forms of disclosure offer little in the way of opportunity for facilitating action on the part of organizational stakeholders, and cannot therefore be viewed as exercises in accountability.
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Dirk Matten & Andrew Crane (2003): “Corporate Citizenship: Towards an extended theoretical conceptualization”.
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Corporate citizenship (CC) has emerged as a prominent term in the management literature dealing with the social role of business. This paper critically examines the content of contemporary understandings of CC and locates them within the exact body of research dealing with business-society relations. Two conventional views of CC are catalogued – a limited view which largely equates CC with strategic philanthropy and an equivalent view which primarily conflates CC with CSR. Significant limits and redundancies are subsequently identified in these views, and the need for an extended theoretical conceptualization is highlighted. The main purpose of the paper is thus to realize a theoretically informed definition of CC that is descriptively robust and conceptually distinct from existing concepts in the literature. Specifically, the extended perspective on CC exposes the element of “citizenship” and conceptualizes CC as the administration of a bundle of individual citizenship rights – social, civil and political – conventionally granted and protected by governments. The implications of this view of CC for management theory and practice are suggested.
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Kate Grosser and Jeremy Moon (2004): “Gender Mainstreaming and Corporate Social Responsibility: Reporting Workplace Issues”.
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This paper investigates the potential and actual contribution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to gender equality in a framework of gender mainstreaming (GM). It introduces GM as combining the technical (monitoring, reporting, evaluating) with the political (women’s participation in decision-making) and considers the ways in which this is compatible with CSR agendas. It examines current gender reporting practices with reference to three related CSR tools: human capital management (HCM) reporting, CSR reporting guidelines, and socially responsible investment (SRI) criteria on employee and diversity issues. The paper generally finds only sporadic and unsystematic attention to gender equality in CSR. Some recent developments suggest that gender mainstreaming may yet find a place in CSR due to investor pressure and shared imperatives for reporting tools and expanding stakeholder participation.
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Nicolescu, Lumnita (2001): “Private higher education in Romania: success or failure”.
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Higher education as all other aspects of social and economic life in Romania underwenr changes after 1990. One of the major changes in higher education in Romania was the fast raise of private higher education based mainly on private initiative. The purpose of this research was to identify the perception and attitudes of the business community over both private and state higher education systems, in the context of an existing popular controversy over the low quality of private higher education as compared to state higher education.
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