Reports
Free Report: Corporate Social Responsibility
CSR is over sixty years old as a field or issue of academic concern, and Howard
Bowen´s 1953 seminal book Social responsibilities of the Businessman is widely
considered as the opening salvo of the field (Carroll, 1991, 1999, 2008; Garriga &
Melé, 2004; Lee, 2008; Preston, 1975; Wood, 1991a, 1991b).
As a mature field of theory of practice, with a rich literature, CSR provides us
with interesting possibilities to look at it as a whole using new perspectives. This is the purpose of this paper, which will argue that some of the vagueness often attributed to CSR (Davis 1960, Carroll 1999) may stem from the fact that discussions concerning CSR occur at three different levels that are often mixed together. This insight may also help clarify the question of corporate social performance, which means different things depending upon the level the discussion is at..
Free Book Chapter on Emerging Technology Trends in Hospitality and Tourism
The University of South Florida M3 Center Publishing has just published an open textbook on "Hospitality and Tourism Information Technology".
The chapter Emerging Technology Trends in Hospitality and Tourism has been written by INNO 3000 team members Harry Costin and Antonio Eslava.
This chapter explores how technology has radically reshaped the tourism industry in the last few decades. In particular, IT applications such as the internet since the 1990s, and more recently smartphone Apps, have contributed to that change.
Today, travellers and tourists use the internet to explore the many options available to them in terms of transport, lodging and entertainment at popular tourist destinations.
You can get the chapter for free, clicking this link.