Corporate Responsibility Community of Practice

Private, public and voluntary organisations are increasingly being scrutinised for their role in contributing to or resolving environmental and social issues. Topics such as poverty, global warming, ‘sweatshop’ supply chains, unethical practices are but some examples frequently appearing in the media.

Dr Denise Baden
Dr Tolga Bektas
Dr Arni Halldorsson
Dr Lisa Harris
Dr Ian Harwood
Dr Declan Hayes
Professor Kevin Holland
Mr Garry Honey
Mr Stuart Humby
Dr Mine Karatas-Ozkan
Mrs Carol Masters
Professor John Taylor
Dr Lorraine Warren
 


Members of the Corporate Responsibility Community of Practice are involved in a broad range of CR research and teaching, including:

  • Ethical supply chains, procurement decision-making, supply chain relationships (Ian Harwood, Stuart Humby and Sophie Monje-Dumas). Investigating the impact of retailers and fast moving consumer products on our growing need to have a one planet economy (Alan Knight). Reverse logistics and product return, especially outsourcing and the role of logistics service providers in value recovery of both end-of-life and end-of-use products (Arni Halldorsson).

  • Green logistics, intermodal transportation and minimising harmful effects of transportation (Tolga Bektas)

  • Corporate Environmental Responsibility (Ian Harwood)
  • Corporate Social Responsibility, Learning Organizations and Gender and Careers (Dima Jamali) 
  • The marketing implications of CSR (Lisa Harris)
  • CSR reporting and discourse (Ian Harwood, David Woodward), CSR information integrity, measurement and data sharing (Stuart Humby), CSR and corporate taxation (Kevin Holland), accountability and efficiency of charities (Declan Hayes).
  • CSR in SMEs, ethical decision-making, the psychology behind ethical/green behaviour (Denise Baden).
  • Social Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise (Denise Baden, Mine Karatas-Ozkan), Corporate Community Involvement, the triple bottom line logic as applied to social entrepreneurship (eg. relational approaches) as well as the theoretical and applied pedagogical aspects of teaching social entrepreneurship (Mine Karatas-Ozkan).
  • CR and organisation reputation risk (Garry Honey)
  • CR and entrepreneurial application of technological solutions (Lorraine Warren)
  • CR-related teaching (Carol Masters)
  • The role of universities in promoting Corporate Social Responsibility, sustainability, social inclusion and equity. This covers how universities integrate such topics within the curriculum and research, the field of participation in higher education as well as the direct contribution made by universities as employers and corporate bodies. (John Taylor).

For more information please see the CoP’s blog: http://sotoncsrcommunity.wordpress.com/

The community would welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students. In the first instance, you should contact a member of staff with the closest research interests to your own and include a short research proposal (research topic, brief review of key literature, research question(s), and proposed methodology) together with your curriculum vitae. Please make it clear in your communications if you are contacting more than one member of staff simultaneously.