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Social responsibility and social capital are high on the agenda of governments and corporations. But what of the small firm? Little is known about the small firm response to social issues, despite their domination of the business landscape. This book brings empirical research on social responsibility from Germany, the UK and the Netherlands together with the theoretical concept of social capital. It makes fascinating and sometimes surprising reading for all those concerned with the role business plays in society.
List of contents
Introduction; L.J.Spence, A.Werner & M.Wegner Literature Review: Social Capital and SMEs; A.Werner & L.J.Spence Social Responsibility, Social Capital, Citizenship and SMEs; A.Habisch Social Responsibility, Profit Maximization and the Small Firm Owner-Manager; L.J.Spence & R.Rutherford SMEs, Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Bavaria and West London; R.Schmidpeter & L.J.Spence Social Captial as a Long-Term Resource Amongst Ethnic Networks: The South Asian Business Community in Britain; S.Janjuha-Jivraj Engaging SMEs in Community and Social Issues; C.Southwell Corporate Citizenship and SMEs in Germany: A New Institutional Economics Perspective; F.Maaß Strategies and Instruments for Organizing Corporate Social Responsibility by Small and Large Businesses in the Netherlands; J.Graafland, B.van de Ven & N.Stoffele Aristotle in Your Local Garage: Enlarging Social Capital with an Ethics Test; L.Preuss The Social World of SMEs: The Way Forward; K.Dickson, A.Habisch, R.Schmidpeter, L.Spence & A.Werner
About the author
KEITH DICKSON Head of the School of Business and Management at Brunel University, UK
JOHAN GRAAFLAND Professor of Economics, Business and Ethics at Tilburg University, The Netherlands
SHAHEENA JANJUHA-JIVRAJ Lecturer in the Business School at Brunel University, UK
FRANK MAAß Researcher at the Institute for SME Research in Bonn (IfM Bonn), Germany
LUTA PREUSS Lecturer in European Business Policy at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK
ROBERT RUTHERFORD Senior Research Officer in the Research and Development Division, Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, UK
CLARE SOUTHWELL CommunityMark and SME Development Manager at Business in the Community, UK
NELLEKE STOFFELE Teacher and Researcher at Tilburg University, The Netherlands
ANDREA WERNER PhD student at Brunel University, UK
BERT W. VAN DE VEN Tilburg University, The Netherlands
MARTINA WEGNER Researcher at the Center for Corporate Citizenship, University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
Summary
Social responsibility and social capital are high on the agenda of governments and corporations. This book brings empirical research on social responsibility from Germany, the UK and the Netherlands together with the theoretical concept of social capital.
