Table of contents -- Guest editorial -- Good corporate practices in poor corporate governance systems -- Sustainability in the boardroom -- Responding to global business critical issues -- A CSR framework due to multiculturalism: the Swiss Re case -- Dealing with a global issue: contributing to poverty alleviation -- Signaling corporate values: consumers' suspicious minds -- Exploring leadership in times of paradox and complexity -- The meanings of social entrepreneurship today -- Social performance: key lessons from recent experiences within Shell -- Going global: how to identify and manage societal expectations in supply chains (and the consequences of failure) -- Corporate social responsibility and financial performance -- Meeting objectives and resisting conventions -- Changing governance patterns and CSR -- Realigning business, government and civil society.