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Contemporary Perspectives in Corporate Social Performance and Policy

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A volume in
Contemporary Perspectives in Corporate Social Performance and Policy
Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch, Series Editor

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Contemporary Perspectives in Corporate Social Performance and Policy

The Middle Eastern Perspective

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edited by

Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch

Silesian Technical University

Wolfgang Amann

HEC Paris

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I

Introduction

1     Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Social Performance: The Middle Eastern Perspective

Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch and Wolfgang Amman

Part II

Reality and Challenges of Corporate Social Performance: The Middle Eastern Perspective

2     Corporate Social Performance in the UAE: Reality and Challenges

Abubakr M. T. Suliman and Sumina Elizabeth Thomas

3     Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Corporate Social Performance: The Role of Legal Institutions in Israel

Hedva Vinarski Peretz

4     Social Business as a Novel Mechanism for Leveraging Corporate Social Performance? Israeli Perspective

Helena Desivilya Syna and Galit Yanay-Ventura

5     Building CSO Partnerships for Social Change: A Social Space Approach

Victor J. Friedman, Ibrahim Abu Elhaija, and Naomi H. Friedman-Sokuler

Part III

Corporate Social Responsibility in Middle Eastern Countries

6     A Barriers Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Adoption in SMEs: The Case of Cyprus

Athanasios Hadjimanolis

7     Corporate Social Responsibility in Israel: The Promise and Practice of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Promised Land

Avi Kay

8     The Role of Professional Associations in Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case of Turkey

Ayse Hepkul and Nuray Tokgoz

9     The Effects of Economic Changes on Industrial Relations in Israel: The Challenges of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Labor Relations, Employee Participation, and Equitable Compensation

Limor Kessler Ladelsky

10    Principles for Responsible Management Education in Middle Eastern Countries

Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch and Anna Sworowska

Part IV

Corporate Social Performance: Specific Problems

11    Abusive Supervision and Its Consequences in Israel: Immigration, Seniority, and Duration of Relationship of Supervisors and Subordinates in the Workplace

Efrat Salton Meyer, Mario Mikulincer, and Amos Drory

12    Incivility, Empathy, and Ethical Work Climate Among Hospital Staff in Israel: A Study Within the Framework of Moral Disengagement Theory

Yariv Itzkovich and Niva Dolev

13    Negotiation Ethics: A Cultural Perspective From Turkey

Ünsal Siğri

14    Perceptions of Generation X and Y on the World of Work in an Emergent Economy

Müberra Yüksel and Ekin Tükek

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all of the chapter authors who met deadlines, engaged ideas, responded to feedback, and wrote valuable chapters to make this book amazing. We are proud to have had the opportunity to work with all of them. We are indebted to our reviewers for their valuable and thoughtful suggestions that have enriched this book. We would like to thank Prof. Helena Desivilya Syna, our honor author, for her support of our book idea. She has encouraged many of her friends from the best universities in Israel to share their knowledge about CSP with all of us. We are greatly indebted to Dr. Anna Sworowska, our research associate and colleague, whose editorial acumen is reflected on every page of this volume and whose engagements enabled us to accomplish the project; and George Johnson, Publisher of IAP, for his astute guidance in all stages of this project reaffirming our belief that IAP is the best publisher to work with.

—Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch
Wolfgang Amann