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Subject: Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 20:08:59 GMT
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Dear Colleagues,
"The Journal of Corporate Citizenship" Issue 13 is a special theme issue:
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN ASIA
Edited by David Birch, The Corporate Citizenship Research Unit, Deakin
University, Australia and Jeremy Moon, The International Centre for
Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School, UK
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A limited number of individual copies of this special issue are
available for purchase at the price of £25.00/$45.00. Postage worldwide
is gratis.
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To place an order, to view all paper abstracts, or to view the
"Introduction" by David Birch and Jeremy Moon and the paper "
Eliminating Child Labour from the Sialkot Soccer Ball Industry: Two
Industry-Led Approaches",
please visit the Greenleaf website at:
http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/jcc/jcc13.htm
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Much of the growing body of work on corporate social responsibility
(CSR) focuses heavily on European and American culture. In recognition
of this lacuna, the International Centre for Corporate Social
Responsibility (University of Nottingham), the Corporate Citizenship
Research Unit (Deakin University, Melbourne) and the Centre for
Europe-Asia Business Research (University of Nottingham in Malaysia)
organised a conference on CSR in Asia, taking place in March 2003 in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at which several of the papers collected in this
special issue were presented. It was recognised at this conference that
the importance of exploring distinctive business and cultural contexts
for the varying developments of CSR around the world is of critical
importance. This special issue of 'The Journal of Corporate Citizenship'
is therefore aimed at taking a step towards redressing the current
imbalance of attention and bringing some greater focus to CSR
initiatives within Asia.
Central to the papers collected here is an acknowledgement that there is
no single CSR formula or template for CSR worldwide, and that programmes
and policies in CSR can differ considerably for company-specific and
culture-specific reasons. Similarly, the collection combines a variety
of approaches and methodologies. Some papers are multi-country or
generally comparative in focus, whereas others focus on single
countries. A number of authors base their evaluation of CSR performance
or prospects on its wider governance contexts. A variety of evaluative
concepts and tools are deployed. Some authors analyse company
self-reporting; others focus on stakeholder perceptions (e.g. on the
perceptions of employees, communities and NGOs); yet others evaluate the
impacts of various codes of conduct or explore the relationship between
social and economic performance.
Taken together this special issue provides a snapshot of the plethora of
CSR issues that are becoming crucial for a growing number of Asian
companies.
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Table of Contents
* Introduction
David Birch, Deakin University, Australia
Jeremy Moon, Nottingham University Business School, UK
* Turning Point
Business and Human Rights: Mixing Profit and Principles in the Global
Marketplace
Jacob Park, Green Mountain College, USA
* Turning Point
The Emerging Practice of Corporate Citizenship in Australia
Trevor Lucas, Southern Cross University, Australia
* Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe and Asia: Critical Elements
and Best Practice
Richard Welford, University of Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
* Corporate Governance and Financial System Development: Asia-Pacific in
Comparative Perspective
Peter G. Szilagyi, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Jonathan A. Batten, Deakin University, Australia; Seoul National
University, South Korea
* Globalisation, Free Trade and Corporate Citizenship in Pacific Forum
Island Countries: How Relevant is the United Nations Global Compact?
Biman C. Prasad, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
* Implementation Deficits of Ethical Trade Systems: Lessons from the
Indonesian Cocoa and Timber Industries
Michael Blowfield, University of Sussex, UK; Boston College, USA
* Implementing Voluntary Labour Standards and Codes of Conduct in the
Thai Garment Industry
Alex Kaufman, Ekalat Tiantubtim, Nongluck Pussayapibul and Patrick
Davids, Kenan Institute Asia, Thailand
* Eliminating Child Labour from the Sialkot Soccer Ball Industry: Two
Industry-Led Approaches
Sehr Hussain-Khaliq, LEAD-Pakistan, Pakistan
* A Comparative Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility Awareness:
Malaysian and Singaporean Firms
Bala Ramasamy and Hung Woan Ting, Nottingham University Business School,
Malaysia
* Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in Malaysia: Progress and
Prospects
Paul Thompson, Nottingham University Business School, Malaysia
Zarina Zakaria, University of Malaya, Malaysia
* Environmental Reporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from Thailand
J. Thomas Connelly and Piman Limpaphayom, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
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A limited number of individual copies of this special issue are
available for purchase at the price of £25.00/$45.00. Postage worldwide
is gratis.
*********************************
To place an order, to view all paper abstracts, or to view the
"Introduction" by David Birch and Jeremy Moon and the paper "
Eliminating Child Labour from the Sialkot Soccer Ball Industry: Two
Industry-Led Approaches",
please visit the Greenleaf website at:
http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/jcc/jcc13.htm
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