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Corporate Social Responsibility for Charity or for Service Business?

  • Enquist, Bo;Edvardsson, Bo;Sebhatu, Samuel Petros
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.55-67
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    • 2008
  • Following this introduction, this paper presents two conceptual and theoretical analyses-(i) CSR and its relation to profit and charity (ii) CSR as part of a service business model. The paper then illustrates these concepts using a comparative study of four service firms, with particular emphasis on their different CSR activities and how these affect the mission of each company. All four of the service companies are global actors with strong Service Brands (Edvardsson, Enquist and Hay, 2006) and a leading position in using CSR as a driving force for doing business: IKEA, Starbucks, H&M and the Body Shop. The paper then draws together the conceptual analysis and the case studies in a discussion of how CSR can be a proactive driver in the service business. Because of the limit space for a QMOD paper the focus is on the conceptual and theoretical analysis part and the empirical part and discussion/conclusion has to be further developed.

Sick or sickness? The importance of person centred healthcare and medicine paradigm

  • Tassinari, Mariateresa;Roberti di Sarsina, Paolo
    • CELLMED
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.24.1-24.4
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    • 2014
  • When you act for a good or just when you make a choice, you should ask yourself if the result of your action coincides with the principle that has generated it. Health and respect for our own individuality are two essential goods for the human being and also values that medicine itself should guard carefully remembering that its goal is to take care for a person and not only to cure a sick body. The means to achieve all this can only be a person-centered medicine which has the honor and the burden of considering the person (in the Kantian sense) and his health as an end, not a means. The current mainstream concept of health defined in 1948 by the World Health Organization as a state of complete mental, physical and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity remind us that medical reasoning, based on the pathogenesis operator, is no longer sufficient in dealing with requests from the citizens: is now the right time to shift the focus from sickness to health giving emphasis to the salutogenic medicine approach.

Overcoming the Cause Marketing Paradox: The Effect of Nostalgia on Charitable Giving and Happiness

  • Lee, Shinhyoung;Yi, Youjae
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2017
  • The current research examines whether and when cause marketing, whereby firms link product sales to the support of a charity or cause, can increase charitable giving and happiness. Previous research suggests that cause marketing might reduce charitable giving and happiness among consumers. However, the present research finds the opposite result by introducing nostalgia as a moderator; cause marketing can enhance consumers' charity giving when their nostalgia is triggered. Moreover, results show that charitable giving increased by cause marketing improves feelings of happiness, suggesting that people view charitable behavior as a means of enhancing happiness. Interestingly, charitable giving and happiness are promoted by the situational priming of nostalgic events, but not by chronic individual differences such as nostalgia proneness.

THE EVALUATION OF ORAL HEALTH CARE STATUS AND TYPES OF DENTAL TREATMENT IN CHARITY FREE DENTAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED PEOPLE (장애인 무료 치과 진료소에 내원한 장애인의 구강진료 현황 분석)

  • Shin, Hyunok;Kim, Mi Sun;Lee, Hyo-Seol;Choi, Sung Chul;Kim, Kwang Chul
    • The Journal of Korea Assosiation for Disability and Oral Health
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.67-72
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of study was to analyze the types of dental treatment and their frequencies in a charity dental clinic for the disabled people, and to figure out baseline data for developing oral health policies. This study was based on the 141 patient records who visited the charity free dental clinic between 2011 and 2016. Data were evaluated according to gender, types of disability, types of treatment, and the average number of caries. The number of dental treatment according to sex was 70% for men and 30% for women. Patients were classified according to types of disability. The most common type of disability is intellectual disabilities (53.9%). After that, developmental disabilities were 37.5%, and brain lesions were 8.51%. The highest frequency of dental treatment is preventive treatment (45.1%). The mean number of dental caries was higher than the number of initial dental caries in all types of disability. Preventive oral care education and regular oral screening are necessary for the oral health of patients with disabilities.

Global Charity Operations of Cleft Lip and Palate by Korean Cleft Lip and Palate Association ; Charity Operations in Kenya, east Africa (대한구순구개열학회의 글로벌 자선 수술 활동 : 케냐에서의 자선 수술 활동)

  • Choung, Pill-Hoon;Park, Joo-Young;Park, Joo-Young;Ahn, Kang-Min;Baek, Jin-Woo;Cho, Il-Hwan;Choi, Cheol-Min;Choi, Seon-Hyu;Chung, Il-Hyuk;Gao, En-Feng;Hong, Jong-Rak;Hyun, Seung-Don;Jang, Hyon-Seok;Jun, Sang-Ho;Jung, Sung-Uk;Kang, Na-Ra;Kang, Young-Ho;Kim, Byung-Ryul;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Kim, Eun-Seok;Kim, Ho-Sung;Kim, In-Soo;Kim, Ji-Hyuck;Kim, Jong-Ryoul;Kim, Joong-Min;Kim, Myung-Jin;Kim, Soung-Min;Ko, Bong-Hwa;Koh, Sung-Hee;Lee, Bu-Kyu;Lee, Eui-Seok;Lee, Jong-Ho;Lee, Ui-Lyong;Lee, Won;Lee, Won-Deok;Min, Byong-Il;Nam, Il-Woo;Paeng, Jun-Young;Park, Jong-Chul;Park, Jung-Seok;Park, Sung-Hee;Park, Young-Wook;Pyo, Sung-Woon;Rim, Chae-Hong;Rim, Jae-Suk;Seo, Byoung-Moo;Suh, Je-Duck;Yoon, Jeong-Ho;Yoon, Jung-Ju;Yun, Hyung-Jin
    • Korean Journal of Cleft Lip And Palate
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.85-92
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    • 2006
  • Korean Cleft Lip and Palate Association (KCLPA) was founded in 1996. The first overseas charity operation was in Karachi, Pakistan, 2002 and our association has visited fourteen times in six countries for the free cleft surgery: Pakistan, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Jordan and Vietnam. The cumulated number of operated patients reaches to 280. Before our association, many Korean oral and maxillofacial surgeons have performed charity operations individually since 1964. It was started from Vietnam but the activity is now carried on in Africa, middle-east Asia, south-east Asia, China, and Korea as an official team. LG electronics, a Korean company helped to propagate our team's activity to middle-east Asia to Africa. This paper is a report concerning about the results of our association's charity activities especially in Kenya, east Africa. We provided free cleft surgery for 30 patients in 2004 and 27 patients in 2005, in Nairobi. As the blood test for HIV of the cleft patients was not allowed before and during surgery, our surgeons and nurses were cautious about every movement during the surgeries. Thus the operation time for each patient was longer than any other time. The attitude of the local hospital and the doctors seemed to be accustomed to this situation. They helped us in case of needle injuries. Safety of medical staff and patients is more important than the number of the patients operated in charity operation. This belief should be approached being parallel and multidisciplinary as an international cooperation, focusing on international funding for medical support and continuous education for local doctors who are willing to devote to their people.

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The Season to Help: The Effect of Seasonal Mood and Gain Versus Loss Advertising Message Framing on Intention to Help Charity

  • Samartkijkul, Piyatida;Yoo, Seung-Chul
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.102-114
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    • 2019
  • There are various researchers who studied the relationship between seasons and feelings. However, only a few did shed light on how these two variables affect decision-making and physical behaviors especially prosocial behavior which emphasize on the benefits of other people and/or society as a whole. Due to a lack of studies on the topic, we investigated whether the combination of seasons and message framing could be useful in eliciting intention to help on an environmental issue. A 3x2 experiment examined the interactions between seasonal mood (summer, winter, controlled) and types of message framing (gain, loss) on future helping intention (volunteer, donation, petition signing). The findings suggest that in normal circumstances where seasonal mood were not applied, gain message framing was more effective in promoting higher intention to sign a petition than loss message framing. However, when thinking of winter, loss message framing has greater ability to do so than gain message framing. Moreover, seasons and mood are found to be associated with a higher positive mood in summer and a negative mood in winter. Lastly, limitations and implications are discussed.

A Study on Enlightenment's Influence upon the Ideal City of C. N. Ledoux (르두의 이상 도시에 미친 18세기 계몽주의의 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Son, Hyson-Ju;Lee, Kang-Up
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.5 no.1 s.9
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    • pp.87-101
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    • 1996
  • This study aims at showing how C.N.Ledoux applied architecturally the idea of Enlightenment in the Ideal City. Enlightenment of 18th century not only developed neo-classicism in the field of art, but also brought about the changes of ideology and philosophy of the era. C.N.Ledoux, one of the most influential architects of this period, expressed abstractly and symbolically the essential idea of Enlightenment; the skepticism of God's authority, the liberty and equality of man, charity and the willingness of controlling the power of nature, and so on.

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Exploring the Determinants of Clothing Disposition Behavior and their Effect (의복 처분행동의 결정요인과 효과)

  • Ahn, Soo-kyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.40 no.5
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    • pp.879-893
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    • 2016
  • This study explores the determinants of clothing disposition and examines their effect on the dimensions of clothing disposition behavior. The data of 316 women were collected nationwide using an online self-administered questionnaire. This study initially identified five types of disposition behavior as revising, permanent separation, giving away, selling, and donating to charity. Exploratory and confirmative factor analysis identified the underlying determinants of clothing disposition as self-concept, reusability, economic factor, social environment, affective association, storage, fashionableness, and a sense of belongingness. Structural equation modeling was conducted to examine the relationships between variables. The results demonstrated that six out of eight determinants significantly affected clothing disposition behavior. The effects of social environment and a sense of belongingness were relatively strong determinants that influenced the four types of disposition behaviors. However, self-concept and affective association did not influence the disposition behaviors. A series of one-way MANOVA was conducted to determine the effect of the eight demographic variables on the four modes of clothing disposition. Giving away, permanent separation, and donating to charity differed significantly in the groups of three demographic variables such as age, monthly income, and marital status. This study empirically elucidates what criteria consumers use when confronted with unused clothing and how the determinants of clothing disposition influence the modes of clothing disposition behavior. This study provides a framework for clothing disposition behavior and its determinants as well as suggests a new approach to clothing disposition behavior and improvements in marketing decisions.

THE STATUS OF ORAL HEALTH BEHAVIORS AND DENTAL SERVICES IN THE KOREAN DISABLED (전국 시설이용 장애인의 구강보건의식행태에 관한 조사연구)

  • Kim, Young-Nam;Choi, Youn-Hee;Jeon, Hyun-Sun;Lim, Ji-Jun;Chung, Won-Gyun;Jang, Sun-Ok;Lee, Keung-Ho
    • The Journal of Korea Assosiation for Disability and Oral Health
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.18-24
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    • 2005
  • The purposes of this study were 1) to investigate the oral health problem of the disabled according to the handicapped types, 2) to collect the empirical data for developing and establishing the oral health policies for the handicapped, and 3) to find out the major obstacles against the dental services and oral health promotion. The handicapped subjects were collected by designed cluster sampling and interviewed with structured questionnaire in order to measure the oral health knowledge and behaviors. The subjects were attending the special schools and private or public welfare institutions for crippled disorder, encephalopathy disorder, mental retardation, visual disturbance, hearing defect, and developmental disorder. Oral examination was conducted by 13 trained dentists. 1,476 of handicapped people were finally surveyed. The results were as follows; The experiences of visiting dental office during the last one year in 18~64 year-old disabled people were 48.86% in crippled disorder, 52.50% in mental retardation, 58.24% in visual disturbance, 39.29% in hearing defect, respectively. To improve this challenging situation, we should find out the obstacles against the dental service and oral hygiene maintenance by the types of handicap, and develop the oral health policies which could support and advocate the Korean disabled.

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