The aim of the present study is to find solutions for better management of online education, star... more The aim of the present study is to find solutions for better management of online education, starting from students’ perspectives regarding the challenges they encountered in the last two years when online courses were imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research methodology we used was partial least squares structural equation modelling based on data collected by applying a survey among students in Romanian universities. The novelty of our study consists in the proposed model, which has five variables: communication problems specific to online education, professors’ skill in conducting online classes, the quality of online education, the stress felt by students during online education, and the technical requirements of online education. The results revealed that despite challenges during online classes students benefited from a high-quality education because they had the support of their professors, all the educational resources that they needed, a device to connect from, and...
This study explores the relationship between CSR, service failure and recovery, and sustainable b... more This study explores the relationship between CSR, service failure and recovery, and sustainable business in the context of Nigeria’s oil industry. Globally, there is nowhere these problems of environmental degradation, socio-political dissonance, lack of sustainable development, poor CSR, and poverty are more visible than in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria which has been described as “the goose that lays” Nigeria’s golden eggs – oil and gas. It is important, therefore, that multinational corporations (MNCs) in Nigeria provide effective service recovery strategies in an attempt to resuscitate stakeholders’ satisfaction, legitimacy, and trust following a service failure, which could be achieved via the prism of CSR. As has been examined by the available literature, CSR can be an effective organizational strategy for service recovery following failure, which could engender sustainable development in the region of the world habitually known for unsustainable organizational practice and ...
Part I: Conceptual Framework of CSR.- Part II: Global Challenges and Opportunities.- Part III: Su... more Part I: Conceptual Framework of CSR.- Part II: Global Challenges and Opportunities.- Part III: Sustainability: Implementing CSR in MNCs/MNEs, SMEs, and Family Business.- Part IV: CSR in Higher Education Institutions around the World.
CSR and Corporate Governance.- Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Values.- Reporting Cor... more CSR and Corporate Governance.- Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Values.- Reporting Corporate Social Responsibility.-Instrumental Corporate Social Responsibility.
Global Challenges to CSR and Sustainable Development, 2021
The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we demonstrate that the Global Reporting Initiativ... more The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we demonstrate that the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards do not enable stakeholders to compare the relevant social performance of different organizations. We argue that the GRI Standards are based on a misguided claim about informed decision-making, which does not fully respect the conceptual difference between transparency and comparability. Secondly, we demonstrate that it is possible to improve the GRI Standards by incorporating a set of social indices which can be compared cross-organizationally. The inspiration for this framework is found in the UN’s Human Development Index and Sen’s capability approach.
This book takes the concept of social audit and lifts it beyond the role of functioning largely a... more This book takes the concept of social audit and lifts it beyond the role of functioning largely as a management tool. The book proposes a system in which social audit is regulated so as to provide a mechanism for effectively promoting corporate accountability in society. Taking this as its theme, this book provides both a conceptual explanation of the developmental perspectives of social audit regulation and empirical evidence of the impact of social audit practice from different parts of the world. It is the first book to explore the issues and challenges related to the development of effective social audit regulation.
Coping with Integrated Reporting: An Overview of financial and Social Reporting Using the Integra... more Coping with Integrated Reporting: An Overview of financial and Social Reporting Using the Integrated Approach: An Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Insights and Outlooks on Integrated Reporting -- Part II: Critical Perspectives on Integrated Reporting in Theory and Practice -- Part III: Implementing Integrated Reporting in Different Countries and Organisations: Issues, Benefits and Challenges.
The aim of this paper is to test whether income inequality contributes to environmental degradati... more The aim of this paper is to test whether income inequality contributes to environmental degradation in China and India, where both countries are giving a great concern about the implications of their unsustainable energy consumption to the environment not only to themselves but also to the global environmental sustainability. By applying the bounds test approach to cointegration we found in both countries a long-run but not a statistically significant relationship between income inequality and CO2 emissions both in the long-run and in the short-run. The robustness of our cointegration results is also ascertained by using three different long-run tests. Furthermore, applying the variance decomposition analysis to examine the dynamic causal relationship between the Gini coefficient of income distribution and CO2 emissions, we found that income inequality was the least important factor in determining CO2 emissions and that there was no causality running in any direction between CO2 emissions and income inequality in both countries. Still income and energy consumption are the major determinants of CO2 emissions in both countries. Nevertheless, even though the evidence is not statistically significant, in the case of China it indicates that reducing income inequality can have a positive impact on environmental quality, while in India redistributing income to improve environmental degradation may not be effective.
The aim of the present study is to find solutions for better management of online education, star... more The aim of the present study is to find solutions for better management of online education, starting from students’ perspectives regarding the challenges they encountered in the last two years when online courses were imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research methodology we used was partial least squares structural equation modelling based on data collected by applying a survey among students in Romanian universities. The novelty of our study consists in the proposed model, which has five variables: communication problems specific to online education, professors’ skill in conducting online classes, the quality of online education, the stress felt by students during online education, and the technical requirements of online education. The results revealed that despite challenges during online classes students benefited from a high-quality education because they had the support of their professors, all the educational resources that they needed, a device to connect from, and...
This study explores the relationship between CSR, service failure and recovery, and sustainable b... more This study explores the relationship between CSR, service failure and recovery, and sustainable business in the context of Nigeria’s oil industry. Globally, there is nowhere these problems of environmental degradation, socio-political dissonance, lack of sustainable development, poor CSR, and poverty are more visible than in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria which has been described as “the goose that lays” Nigeria’s golden eggs – oil and gas. It is important, therefore, that multinational corporations (MNCs) in Nigeria provide effective service recovery strategies in an attempt to resuscitate stakeholders’ satisfaction, legitimacy, and trust following a service failure, which could be achieved via the prism of CSR. As has been examined by the available literature, CSR can be an effective organizational strategy for service recovery following failure, which could engender sustainable development in the region of the world habitually known for unsustainable organizational practice and ...
Part I: Conceptual Framework of CSR.- Part II: Global Challenges and Opportunities.- Part III: Su... more Part I: Conceptual Framework of CSR.- Part II: Global Challenges and Opportunities.- Part III: Sustainability: Implementing CSR in MNCs/MNEs, SMEs, and Family Business.- Part IV: CSR in Higher Education Institutions around the World.
CSR and Corporate Governance.- Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Values.- Reporting Cor... more CSR and Corporate Governance.- Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Values.- Reporting Corporate Social Responsibility.-Instrumental Corporate Social Responsibility.
Global Challenges to CSR and Sustainable Development, 2021
The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we demonstrate that the Global Reporting Initiativ... more The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we demonstrate that the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards do not enable stakeholders to compare the relevant social performance of different organizations. We argue that the GRI Standards are based on a misguided claim about informed decision-making, which does not fully respect the conceptual difference between transparency and comparability. Secondly, we demonstrate that it is possible to improve the GRI Standards by incorporating a set of social indices which can be compared cross-organizationally. The inspiration for this framework is found in the UN’s Human Development Index and Sen’s capability approach.
This book takes the concept of social audit and lifts it beyond the role of functioning largely a... more This book takes the concept of social audit and lifts it beyond the role of functioning largely as a management tool. The book proposes a system in which social audit is regulated so as to provide a mechanism for effectively promoting corporate accountability in society. Taking this as its theme, this book provides both a conceptual explanation of the developmental perspectives of social audit regulation and empirical evidence of the impact of social audit practice from different parts of the world. It is the first book to explore the issues and challenges related to the development of effective social audit regulation.
Coping with Integrated Reporting: An Overview of financial and Social Reporting Using the Integra... more Coping with Integrated Reporting: An Overview of financial and Social Reporting Using the Integrated Approach: An Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Insights and Outlooks on Integrated Reporting -- Part II: Critical Perspectives on Integrated Reporting in Theory and Practice -- Part III: Implementing Integrated Reporting in Different Countries and Organisations: Issues, Benefits and Challenges.
The aim of this paper is to test whether income inequality contributes to environmental degradati... more The aim of this paper is to test whether income inequality contributes to environmental degradation in China and India, where both countries are giving a great concern about the implications of their unsustainable energy consumption to the environment not only to themselves but also to the global environmental sustainability. By applying the bounds test approach to cointegration we found in both countries a long-run but not a statistically significant relationship between income inequality and CO2 emissions both in the long-run and in the short-run. The robustness of our cointegration results is also ascertained by using three different long-run tests. Furthermore, applying the variance decomposition analysis to examine the dynamic causal relationship between the Gini coefficient of income distribution and CO2 emissions, we found that income inequality was the least important factor in determining CO2 emissions and that there was no causality running in any direction between CO2 emissions and income inequality in both countries. Still income and energy consumption are the major determinants of CO2 emissions in both countries. Nevertheless, even though the evidence is not statistically significant, in the case of China it indicates that reducing income inequality can have a positive impact on environmental quality, while in India redistributing income to improve environmental degradation may not be effective.
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