International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets  (IJBEM)

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Call for Papers

Special Issue on

CSR in Globalized World: Emerging Issues and Challenges

Guest Editors

Nisigandha Bhuyan, Arpita Ghosh, V K Unni & Ramendra Singh

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC)

India

Various forms of Corporate Social Responsibility have been well known practices in India much before the advent of American academic curricula through Business Schools. Corporate Charity was one of the earliest activities, and as the name suggests, it was voluntary and almost always depended on the charitable instincts of businessmen. After the institutionalization of Business Academia, CSR has come a long way from acts of charity to Strategic CSR that is now inclusive of awareness and concerns for greater social causes like poverty alleviation, education, and access to bare necessities (the problems that developing economies are consistently grappling with). However, the alignment between societal and business goals through CSR practices is not an internalized and universalized reality. Post liberalization, large firms did align their business objectives with societal requirements. However, the Macro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector is struggling to incorporate CSR into their business objectives. Moreover, CSR in India is still further from incorporating sustainable business practices. To add to this existing mesh, CSR enters as a mandatory requirement for some of the corporations. The clauses of the mandate are not necessarily favorable to Strategic CSR – the only CSR that motivates the corporate to incorporate CSR practices into their business goals.

Important Dates

·         Submission of full manuscripts: 1 March, 2016

·         First reviews to authors:  30 April, 2016

·         R&R:  30 June, 2016

·         Submission of final versions: October 31, 2016

The Special issue is likely to come out in 2017.

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