The purpose of this study was to examine the role of organizational culture in helping to translate corporate social responsibility (CSR) into firm performance. We employed arguments from the CSR strategy view to highlight the effectiveness of CSR and the contingency approach to explain the vertical fit between CSR and the organizational culture in a firm. Furthermore, we examined the moderatin...

www.thelancet.com Vol 379 April 28, 2012 1567 Several factors have contributed to the social construct of adolescence as a distinct period of life, including the rise in education (and with it age segregation), social media, and urbanisation. But adolescence also has a biological basis. Many of the behaviours we associate with the teenage years (eg, risk taking) are evident in other species, an...

The lack of precise models to support the design and analysis of social inclusion systems, and the growing informatization of the society which connects digital to social inclusion in multiple ways, lead to the need of exploring in full the potential of information technology to support social inclusion. However, this potential can only be achieved if we can rely on precise models that can be u...

The following was delivered by the author to the High Level American Meeting of Experts on The Challenges of Social Reform and New Administrative and Financial Management Techniques. The meeting, which took place September 5-7, 1994, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, was sponsored by the International Social Security Association at the invitation of the Argentine Secretariat for Social Security in c...

There are several reasons why adolescence is interesting. It is in this phase that an individual finds herself fully facing the external world: basically equipped with the kind of social cognition that s/he has acquired at home, at school and through the media during childhood, s/he has now to meet a host of other, diverse views of what "reasonable," "appropriate," or "expected" courses of thou...

According to researches, a fundamental of social capital claims that the larger community in which a business organisation is embedded is a source of capital. On the other hand knowledge management has recently emerged as a key research topic in the most of organization. This paper presents a conceptual model that explains that the social capital of an organization can shapes the innovation per...

leadership and management competencies required of successful executives of nongovernmental social welfare organizations. This paper summarizes the discrete competencies, summarizes the unique components of leadership, distinguishes leadership from management; and, identifies the sources of power and authority executives may draw upon for these purposes. The paper goes on to identify the specif...

Scientists are generally subject to social pressures, including pressures to conform with others in their communities, that affect achievement of their epistemic goals. Here we analyze a network epistemology model in which agents, all else being equal, prefer to take actions that conform with those of their neighbors. This preference for conformity interacts with the agents’ beliefs about which...

Social Connectedness: Relationship with Social Competencies and Self Esteem among School Going Children. Rajesh Kumar* Roshan Lal** Vivek Bhuchar*** 028 About Authors : *Assistant Professor, Post Graduate Government College, Chandigarh **Assistant Professor, Panjab University, Chandigarh ***Resource Person, Post Graduate Government College, Chandigarh

The ethics we find in companies contains the same elements as the ethics in the socio-economic context in which they operate. The aspirations and ethical levels of companies operating in certain countries differ substantially from those of companies operating in other areas, where the defence of the environment, social welfare, human rights, cooperation, assistance are expected and offered to a...