Firms are increasingly drawing on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in their employer branding to increase attractiveness and engage current and potential employees, and to ensure consistency in employee brand behaviours. However, there is a dearth of literature synthesising CSR and employer branding research to understand employee engagement with CSR-firms from a branding perspective. In this article, the authors carried out an integrative literature review of CSR and employer branding literatures. Informed by signaling theory, the authors develop a conceptual model of the CSR employer branding process as a cohesive view from the potential and current employee perspective. Our review highlights the need for firms to achieve CSR consistency in terms of (a) embeddedness of CSR values, and (b) levels of internal CSR. These two factors frame a typology that enable managers to better execute their CSR employer brand identity to achieve favourable results, such as a high-quality talent pool and positive affective, cognitive and behavioural employee outcomes.

As value co-creation continues to gain traction as one of the most influential concepts in contemporary marketing, it is worthwhile to explore the role of the customer in the realisation of value. This paper considers that customer participation in a range of active customer behaviours, including development, feedback, advocacy and helping, can co-create customer perceptions of brand value. In particular, the research examines the interplay between the dimensions of quality, emotional, price and social value with respect to co-creation behaviour dimensions. Overall, the results indicate potentially positive impacts of advocacy and development behaviours, little influence from feedback and seemingly negative impacts from helping behaviour, upon brand value dimensions. This paper offers initial insight into the potential impacts of different behaviours upon forms of value, enhancing theoretical understanding and offering direction for brand management applications.

With corporate social responsibility (CSR) becoming increasingly important, this research forms a nexus for strategic CSR and internal brand knowledge through the conceptual development and empirical validation of a model. The research methodology is based on an online survey administered via a temporal data collection approach (i.e. two-wave). The findings substantiate that internal branding constructs that characterise the employees internal CSR experienced. The internal CSR experience is also shaped by individual factors, such as employee awareness of CSR, perception of the sincerity of the CSR brand and subjective knowledge of CSR. The findings demonstrate the precedential effect of the internal branding constructs on employee performance outcomes (CSR involvement, organisational attachment and organisational citizenship behaviours). The integrity of the model is substantiated by partial least squares (PLS) testing. The study provides scholars and practitioners with empirical evidence of CSR as an internal branding tool to improve brand alignment and employee performance.

Given the rising global use of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by professional sport organisations, this paper acts to consolidate the state of scholarly research using a systematic quantitative literature review. Our aim was to critically analyse the literature on CSR and professional sport organisations and in doing so ask, how is the global research at the nexus of sport and CSR poised to deliver social good? Our findings indicate the presence of variability in approaches to investigating CSR in professional sport, and the lack of discrete reporting of target audiences and initiatives evidenced across our sample. We suggest there is potential to learn from other disciplinary approaches to CSR research and to push towards conceptual clarity. Finally, sport organisations can lever sports' unique qualities to deliver, engage and unite people across a range of boundaries, and to promote and create social value which is even more important as we navigate the post-COVID-19 environment of uncertainty and resource constraints.

Governments worldwide have launched various schemes to promote recycling by individuals, from legislation to voluntary and mandatory policies, waste charging, kerbside collection, waste separation bins, and promotional campaigns. Much remains to be done, however, in terms of understanding the psychological relationships among consumers' attitudes, intentions, and behaviours when it comes to recycling. This study was designed to examine recycling intention through the lens of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). Using online survey, participants (n=827) were recruited through an online survey platform (mturk.com). The results show that TPB can predict consumers' intention to recycle. It was further found, however, that attitude towards recycling did not predict intention to recycle. The findings presented here have significant implications for policymakers and practitioners who are interested in inculcating recycling intention and behaviours in members of the public. This study extends the Theory of Planned Behavior in the context of recycling. There is a need to examine the theories' explanatory power in different research settings and context. Moreover, Regulations and policies on recycling continue to evolve. For example, recently in 2018, Australia is banning plastic bag. Consequently, the new policy will affect people's perception toward recycling. Hence, continues research on recycling are needed.

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Aim The purpose of this review was to synthesise and critically analyse the points of discordance and concordance between consumers and clinicians about quality end-of-life care. Findings Respecting patient autonomy and the role of family is now clearly understood, but the role of healthcare provider and purpose of treatment withdrawal are still a matter of conflict between clinicians and patients or families. Clinician awareness of the possibility of misunderstanding by patients or families is the first step in preventing discordance of views on care quality at the end of life. Message To prevent the conflict between parties, further efforts are needed to investigate ways to better communicate the goals of care, limitations of treatment and uncertainty associated with forecasting time to end of life.