Increase Awareness, Responsibility

Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Its Awareness in Brazil

This paper discusses the importance of social responsibility as a base for sustainability and tries to provide an overview of this relationship in Brazil nowadays. It is recognized as necessary the existence of three classes of economical, ecological and social sustainability and the big challenge of reconciling these three elements. Are included the results and discussion of a research aiming ...

Monitoring and Feedback to Increase Awareness of Exercise Activities

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firm Value: The Role of Customer Awareness

T paper shows that corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm value are positively related for firms with high customer awareness, as proxied by advertising expenditures. For firms with low customer awareness, the relation is either negative or insignificant. In addition, we find that the effect of awareness on the CSR–value relation is reversed for firms with a poor prior reputation as cor...

Social And Cultural Awareness and Responsibility in Library, Information and Documentation Studies

This paper will try to demonstrate that knowledge concerning social and cultural awareness and responsibility (SCAR) is not opposed to efficiency in information systems development. On the contrary, such knowledge is a prerequisite for developing effective systems. An information system is supposed to provide relevant information and help fulfil the “information needs” of users and potential us...

Commentary: Reflections on Social and Cultural Awareness and Responsibility In Library, Information, and Documentation

This Colloquium is concerned with how our understanding of how our understanding of library, information, and documentation phenomena are related to cultural, historical, social, and political contexts and issues. History is a narrative of what has happened in the past. Heritage is what we now have in the present from that past. The heritage of library, information and documentation studies can...