Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the gateway for corporations to combine business with ethics and is needed to expand the focus of a corporation beyond merely its own profit line. The present paper is a theoretical discussion on these practices through a critical study of research literature. Researcher seeks to discuss the meaning of CSR, before focusing on the presence and significance of CSR in developed and developing nations. There are similarities between CSR trends in the two distinct fields such as emotion-oriented CSR programs and use of media for corporate image building. In contrast, major differences can be found in the role of governments among developed and developing countries in relation to CSR activities. Finally, the researcher also presents a look into the impact of CSR in shaping future progress for developing countries. The paper is purely a reflection and comparative review of existing research literature from various countries in the world.

Current study aims to develop an ICT adoption model based on the perceived awareness, perceived usefulness and intention to use ICT. Researcher has measured the opinions of the telecom users towards ICT using a well-structured questionnaire, distributed to 1080 telecom users equally from rural and urban areas of the North and Central India. It was found from the study that the ICT is useful for acquiring information, entertainment, safety and security, maintaining e-repository, managing digital money & payments and for skill or knowledge enhancement. ICT adoption model developed in the study suggests that perceived awareness and perceived usefulness both are significant predictors of the intention to use ICT. Further, the model shows that the area and generation gap both are significant predictors of the ICT adoption. The study is limited to telecom users only and geographical area of the survey is limited to North and Central India.

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The study aims to measure the link between CSR and economic growth. This study investigates whether CSR expenses shown by the banks are contributing to the sustainability of an emerging economy like India. For this study, CSR spending of 21 commercial banks, on nine development areas of the Indian economy, the human development index of India, and its indicators along with the growth rate of GDP of India and state-wise GDP for the year 2014-2015 to 2017-2018 have been taken as secondary data. The research techniques used are the case analysis method, correlation, and descriptive analysis. The study highlights that CSR activities are more of a myth and a far-reaching possibility in developing nations like India, where most institutions are engrossed in such activities to gain laurels and secure investors from the globe.

The research aims to develop a mid-way approach for the adoption of Sustainable Supply Chain Practices (SSCPs) by an organization while managing its functional constructs and organizational performance both. The study undertook the analysis of 100 plus research papers published between 2000 and 2019 to unravel some functional constructs and the relationship between the application of sustainable supply chain practices and overall organization performance. The research highlighted the positive linkage between the application of sustainable supply chain practices and the organization's performance in the long run. Moreover, the functional constructs were reckoned as key to mediate the relationship between the sustainable supply chain practices and the long run organization performance.