Special Issue "Corporate Sustainability, Social Responsibility, and Environmental Management for Social Innovation"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jose Luis Vazquez-Burguete
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Business Management and Economics Department, University of León, 24071 León, Spain
Interests: public and nonprofit marketing; corporate social responsibility (CSR); sustainable development; sustainable consumption
Prof. Dr. Helena Alves
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Department of Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
Interests: services marketing; higher education marketing; co-creation; intellectual capital social marketing; public sector marketing
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Prof. Dr. Luis I. Álvarez-González
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Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Business, University of Oviedo, Oviedo 33071, Spain
Interests: marketing in non-profit organizations (NPO); NPO management; business-NPO partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); social innovation, transparency and accountability
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Prof. Dr. M. Isabel Sánchez-Hernández
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Business Management and Sociology Department, University of Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: human resources management; CSR; internal marketing; sustainability
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Starting with the Carroll Model, according to which the CSR encompasses those economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic expectations that society has of organizations at a given moment of time, to the most current theories related to the concept of social innovation, that promote development and implementation from different spheres of new ideas to satisfy social needs and create new collaborative relationships that act as an engine of social change.

The objective of this Special Issue is to define in what way the most recent conceptual developments of CSR derive positive consequences both for the social environment in which they are implemented and for the different organizations and/or citizens involved. (1) based on the different meanings of CSR describe current evidence on; (2) the set of organizational and/or environmental antecedents that stimulate the effective adoption of this management strategy;  (3) on its consequences at the micro, meso, and macro level in the social environment for the near future.

Prof. Dr. José Luis Vázquez-Burguete
Prof. Dr. Helena Alves
Prof. Dr. Luis Ignacio Álvarez-González
Prof. Dr. María Isabel Sánchez Hernández
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Keywords

  • corporate social responsibility (csr)
  • organizational social responsibility (osr)
  • corporate sustainability
  • environmental management
  • social innovation strategies
  • social entrepreneurship
  • corporate citizenship
  • fourth sector
  • hybrid social busines models
  • relationships business–nonprofit organizations and/or other social key stakeholders

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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