This paper shows the growing interest that corporate volunteering is offering in our country. Once the notion and the basics of corporate volunteering are presented, we make a special emphasis on its ability to bind the company with its agents of interest, mainly in its strategic capacity. The...

Reliability is a key aspect to guarantee e-government initiatives' success and viability. This work analyzes several antecedent factors of the reliability of e-government services. Specifically, we focus on perceptions about the characteristics of e-government services (perceived security and...

This paper presents a descriptive overview of the management actions for the benefit of the Community, carried out by companies belonging to business organizations that promote CSR in Uruguay. In the first place the paper contains an analysis of the documentation provided by this kind of...

The contribution is based on the theoretical presumption that the successful and balanced spatial development at all hierarchical levels (local, regional, national, EU, global) depends on close and effective partnership, cooperation and communication of many groups of the different actors. It...

The principal aim of this study is to analyze the internal and external Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) functions attributed by university students to enterprises in their habitual economic activity, just as the influence of academic background in such subjective perceptions. Self-reported...

This paper addresses the analysis of the relationship between the discourse of businessmen and managers on the progress that their companies have reached in CSR and the progress actually achieved. It starts with a review of the literature on CSR, from which it follows that there is a different...

In light of the childhood obesity problems affecting Australia and other developed nations, this study investigated parents' attitudes to a school food policy recently introduced into Western Australian government schools. The aim of the study was to develop recommendations for future efforts to...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and describe the relation between knowledge and development in the new knowledge-based economy and to deduct the socio-economic basics of the public marketing strategies in this context. The particularity of this approach is due to the features of...

The objective of this article is to explore how the cultural participation influences on the evaluation of the consumers' quality of life. First, we study the concept of the quality of life comparing two approaches to the evaluation of the individual subjective well-being. We carried out a...

Initiation into smoking is largely a childhood phenomenon, with more than 75% of all smokers in Ireland starting smoking before they reach the age of 18. Focus groups were conducted, where teenage girls were shown various anti-smoking advertisements and cigarette packages containing anti-smoking...