The United Nation's Millennium Development Goals for Africa suggest the need for these economies to attract substantial amount of foreign direct investments (FDI) to stimulate growth by investing in essential development infrastructures. However, investors are skeptical of opaque corporate...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that given the dearth of literature on how firms in the African continent have embraced and practiced corporate social responsibility (CSR), this study contributes to the CSR literature by examining managers' perceptions about CSR, structural...

Purpose – This paper aims to reflect the argument that the impetus to engage in socially responsible actions is ultimately reinforced by the perceived belief that doing so will be beneficial to the corporation in the long run. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a...

Insurance like most financial services is a complex system of interfaces and exchanges, requiring prospects to rely heavily on the technical information supplied by sales persons to make crucial decisions of long term consequences. Even at this, insurance companies are sometimes compelled by...