Professor Kevin Morrell discussed the emerging concept of the Anthropocene and implications for corporate responsibility at the “Corporate Social Responsibility of the Anthropocene” in the online webinar on Thursday 10th February 2022.

You can find more published articles by Kevin Morrell on the Cranfield website.

Examples of articles available through databases in the Alumni Library Online service related on the theme of corporate social responsibility and the Anthropocene.

ABI Inform Global

Blok, V. (2020). Politics versus Economics Philosophical Reflections on the Nature of Corporate Governance. Philosophy of Management, 19(1), 69-87.

Cho, C. H. (2020). CSR accounting 'new wave' researchers: 'step up to the plate' ... or 'stay out of the game'. Accounting and Management Information Systems, 19(4), 626-650.

Dreyer, M., Chefneux, L., Goldberg, A., Joachim, v. H., Patrignani, N., Schofield, M., & Shilling, C. (2017). Responsible Innovation: A Complementary View from Industry with Proposals for Bridging Different Perspectives. Sustainability, 9(10), 1719.

Maldonado-Erazo, C., Álvarez-García, J., María de la Cruz del Río-Rama, & Correa-Quezada, R. (2020). Corporate Social Responsibility and Performance in SMEs: Scientific Coverage. Sustainability, 12(6), 2332.

Markman, G. D., & Krause, D. (2016). Theory Building Surrounding Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Assessing what we Know, Exploring Where To Go. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 52(2), 3-10.

North, P. (2016). The business of the Anthropocene? Substantivist and diverse economies perspectives on SME engagement in local low carbon transitions. Progress in Human Geography, 40(4), 437-454.

Pavlovic, A., Cimesa, M., & Takahashi, M. (2016). 21st Century Challenges Require Deep Transformation of Current Corporate Governance Concept and CSR Model. Centar za istrazivanje i razvoj upravljanja d.o.o.

Pulker, C. E., Trapp, G. S. A., Scott, J. A., & Pollard, C. M. (2018). Global supermarkets’ corporate social responsibility commitments to public health: a content analysis. Globalization and Health, 14

Roblek, V., Milenkovska, V., & Milojica, V. (2016). The Impact of Corporate Sustainability in Achieving Business Goals in Hotel Industry. Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management in Opatija.Biennial International Congress.Tourism & Hospitality Industry, 388-403.

Venturelli, A., Fasiello, R., & Pizzi, S. (2021). CSR Education in Economia Aziendale Curricula: An Overview. Administrative Sciences, 11(4), 137.

EBSCO

Anand, M., & Singh, J. (2021). Business students’ perception of corporate social responsibility: an exploratory study. Decision (0304-0941), 48(3), 261–284.

Desjardine, M. R., Marti, E., & Durand, R. (2021). Why activist hedge funds target socially responsible firms: the reaction costs of signaling corporate social responsibility. Academy of Management Journal, 64(3), 851–872.

Haack, P., Martignoni, D., & Scheonberg, D. (2021). A bait-and-switch model of corporate social responsibility. Academy of Management Review, 46(3), 440–464.

Heinberg, M., Liu, Y., Huang, X., & Eisingerich, A. B. (2021). A Bad Job of Doing Good: Does Corporate Transparency on a Country and Company Level Moderate Corporate Social Responsibility Effectiveness? Journal of International Marketing, 29(2), 45–61.

Li, S., & Lu, J. W. (2020). A Dual-Agency Model of Firm CSR in Response to Institutional Pressure: Evidence from Chinese Publicly Listed Firms. Academy of Management Journal, 63(6), 2004–2032.

Mitnick, B. M., Windsor, D., & Wood, D. J. (2021). CSR: undertheorized or essentially contested? Academy of Management Review, 46(3), 623–629.

Ramaiah, T. S., Jee, K., & Tiwari, S. C. (2021). Stakeholders’ Perception of CSR Practices: Evidence from Indian Companies. IUP Journal of Accounting Research & Audit Practices, 20(4), 128–149.

Sage

Frank Oldfield, Anthony D Barnosky, John Dearing, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, John McNeill, Will Steffen, Jan Zalasiewicz (2013) The Anthropocene Review: Its significance, implications and the rationale for a new transdisciplinary journal. The Anthropocene Review, vol. 1, 1: pp. 3-7.

Emerald

Blagov, Y. E., & Petrova-Savchenko, A. A. (2021). The transformation of corporate sustainability model in the context of achieving the UN SDGs: evidence from the leading Russian companies. Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, 21(2), 307–321.

Indarti, S. (2018). The role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) toward the development micro and small and entrepreneurs using partnership and community development program (PKBL) in Pekanbaru. International Journal of Law and Management, 60(1), 79–86.

Midttun, A. (2005). Realigning business, government and civil society. Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, 5(3), 159–174.

O’Connor, A., Mitson, R., & Gilbert, C. (2021). Hometown advantage? Exploring the relationship between location, CSR/CSI and stakeholders’ behavioral intentions. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 26(4), 758–772.

Strugatch, W. (2011). Turning values into valuation. Journal of Management Development, 30(1), 44–48.

Widiarto Sutantoputra, A. (2009). Social disclosure rating system for assessing firms’ CSR reports. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 14(1), 34–48.

Open access articles in ScienceDirect from Elsevier

Although Elsevier do not generally permit alumni access to ScienceDirect material, don’t forget there are many articles available via open access (the author has paid to allow their article to be publicly available without subscription). Here are a few examples of articles on corporate social responsibility:

Fukuda, K., & Ouchida, Y. (2020). Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the environment: Does CSR increase emissions? Energy Economics, 92, 104933. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104933

Ghanbarpour, T., & Gustafsson, A. (2022). How do corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovativeness increase financial gains? A customer perspective analysis. Journal of Business Research, 140, 471–481. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.11.016

Ivanova-Gongne, M., Torkkeli, L., Hannibal, M., Uzhegova, M., Barner-Rasmussen, W., Dziubaniuk, O., & Kulkov, I. (2022). Cultural sensemaking of corporate social responsibility: A dyadic view of Russian–Finnish business relationships. Industrial Marketing Management, 101, 153–164. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2021.12.010

Matsutani, L., Rampasso, I. S., Serafim, M. P., Quelhas, O. L. G., Leal Filho, W., & Anholon, R. (2022). Critical analysis of corporate social responsibility projects developed by Brazilian companies: Providing new insights for debates. Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 7, 100412. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2022.100412

Nguyen, N. T. T., Nguyen, N. P., & Thanh Hoai, T. (2021). Ethical leadership, corporate social responsibility, firm reputation, and firm performance: A serial mediation model. Heliyon, 7(4), e06809. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06809

Shahzad, F., Baig, M. H., Rehman, I. U., Saeed, A., & Asim, G. A. (2021). Does intellectual capital efficiency explain corporate social responsibility engagement-firm performance relationship? Evidence from environmental, social and governance performance of US listed firms. Borsa Istanbul Review. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bir.2021.05.003

Singh, K., & Misra, M. (2021). Linking Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Organizational Performance: the moderating effect of corporate reputation. European Research on Management and Business Economics, 27(1), 100139. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2020.100139

Surya, A. A., & Rokhim, R. (2021). Analysis of the mitigation effects of corporate social responsibility on the negative impact of high leverage in ASEAN-5. Asia Pacific Management Review. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmrv.2021.10.002

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