University of Bath, School of Management

Centre for Business, Organisations and Society
The Centre for Business Organisations and Society (CBOS) was established in order to provide a forum for research in the area of Business and Society. CBOS is both issue based and interdisciplinary and its members are drawn from a range of functional backgrounds which encompass sociology, organisational behaviour, international business, marketing, economics and finance and accounting.

Motivations for Corporate Social Performance
This programme investigates the role of organizational characteristics, corporate strategy, stakeholder pressures, and industry conditions as stimulants of corporate social performance

Corporations and Communities in Developing/Transitional Economy Contexts
This project explores the contributions that corporations make to social, environmental and economic issues in transitional and developing economy contexts including, Turkey, the Lebanon, and Argentina.

Global Sustainable Public Procurement
This comparative international study investigates approaches to public sector sustainable procurement practices

Does it pay to be different? An analysis of the relationship between corporate social and financial performance
by Stephen Brammer, Andrew Millington

Factors influencing the quality of corporate environmental disclosure

Pension Funds and Corporate Social Performance
by Paul Cox, Stephen Brammer, Andrew Millington

Our Big Energy Challenge
This is a Treasury part-funded project with the aim of saving at least 10% of our energy usage in the next 3 years. The School of Management has appointed its own ‘Energy Champions’ who have been trained in ways to reduce energy consumption and they are now challenging and encouraging all School staff to think of all the ways they can be more energy efficient and environmentally aware.

Motivations for Corporate Social Performance
This programme investigates the role of organizational characteristics, corporate strategy, stakeholder pressures, and industry conditions as stimulants of corporate social performance

International Social and Environmental Procurement
The project examines social and environmental procurement in the UK, Italy, China and India and investigates how firms located in the UK and Italy manage social and environmental issues within their relationships with suppliers in China, India and their domestic market.

Corporations and Communities in Developing/Transitional Economy Contexts
This project explores the contributions that corporations make to social, environmental and economic issues in transitional and developing economy contexts including, Turkey, the Lebanon, and Argentina.

Global Sustainable Public Procurement
This comparative international study investigates approaches to public sector sustainable procurement practices