Special Issue "Socioeconomic and Environmental Dimensions of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Valentín Molina-Moreno
E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Business Management-1, University of Granada, 18010 Granada, Spain
Interests: circular economy; corporate social responsibility
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Juan Victor Meseguer Sánchez
E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Social Sciences, Catholic University of Murcia, 30107 Murcia, Spain
Interests: corporate social responsibility
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Gabriel López-Martínez
E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Contemporary Humanities, University of Alicante, 03698 Alicante, Spain
Interests: social sustainability; social exclusion; labor relations
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We consider CSR as an important instrument that can be configured to help companies and public entities to improve the levels of economic, social, and environmental development. In this sense, CSR must be taken into account and used by the different stakeholders of our society such that all ensuing efforts can have a greater multiplier-effect and, thus, generate greater positive externalities from the economic, social, and environmental scope. Moreover, there is evidence to suggest that our current era demands the implementation and execution of changes in some paradigms of our social and economic model. This substantiates the claim that motivating researchers from different fields of knowledge to propose research that can generate greater ideas and solutions is one of the keys. Furthermore, those researchers will become an inspiration both for other researchers as well as for those responsible for the design of public and private policies on CSR and socially responsible territories.

Dr. Valentín Molina-Moreno
Prof. Dr. Juan Victor Meseguer Sánchez
Prof. Dr. Gabriel López-Martínez
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • corporate social responsibility
  • sustainable development
  • sustainable development goals
  • shared value
  • materiality analysis
  • social commitment
  • university corporate social responsibility
  • triple bottom line
  • corporate sustainability reports
  • negative environmental and social externalities
  • CSR and social inclusion
  • biodiversity loss
  • public CSR and environmental policies
  • public policies of CSR and social cohesion
  • CSR and territory
  • socially responsible territories
  • sustainable management of organizations
  • CSR and social media
  • social
  • awareness and CSR
  • RSC and inclusion of disadvantaged groups
  • RSC as an instrument for gender equality

Published Papers (1 paper)

Order results
Result details
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

Article
Proposing Stewardship Theory as an Alternate to Explain the Relationship between CSR and Employees’ Pro-Environmental Behavior
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8558; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158558 - 31 Jul 2021
Viewed by 361
Abstract
The aim of the current analysis is to test the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and employee’s pro-environmental behavior (E-PEB) with the mediating effect of servant leadership (SL). The data of the current study were collected from banking employees (n = [...] Read more.
The aim of the current analysis is to test the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and employee’s pro-environmental behavior (E-PEB) with the mediating effect of servant leadership (SL). The data of the current study were collected from banking employees (n = 392) serving in different banks of Pakistan through a self-administered (paper–pencil method) questionnaire and analyzed by employing structural equation modeling (SEM). The empirical results revealed that CSR directly influences E-PEB; however, this relationship is better explained in the presence of SL as a mediator (mediation explained 35% variation in E-PEB). The findings of this analysis will help academia and the banking industry improve their understanding of CSR to shape employees’ environment-specific behavior. Further, these findings will also help to deal with climate change by engaging the bank employees in different environment-specific activities to improve the overall environmental footprint of a bank. Full article
Show Figures

Figure 1

Back to TopTop