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August 2008
Volume 10(8)

Editor: Karen Corday, MSLIS
 
Newsletter Home New from the Network Conversations with the Experts Sloan Foundation Corner Call for Papers Conferences Literature Updates
 

» Next Generation Corporate Citizenship
  Bradley K. Googines discusses his new book, Beyond Good Company: Next Generation Corporate Citizenship.
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A graphic illustrates

  the stages of corporate citizenship.
» CEO of Me
  Ellen Ernst Kossek writes about her new book, CEO of Me: Creating a Life That Works in the Flexible Job Age.
» New Topic Page
  The Spillover: Negative Impacts Topic Page, compiled by Melissa Brown, Chelsea Lettieri and Sandee Tisdale and advised by David L. Snow, is now available.
» New Work-Family Encyclopedia Entry
New entry in the Work-Family Encyclopedia: Disabilities and Work-Family Challenges: Parents Having Children with Special Health Care Needs, by Eileen M. Brennan, Julie M. Rosenzweig and Anna Malsch.
» New in Work and Family
  You may now access links to popular press articles on our site in two sections: Work and Family News Headlines and Work and Family News from Around the Globe. This change is in response to users asking us to make our global content more readily accessible.
  » More News

Next Generation Corporate Citizenship

An Interview with Bradley K. Googins
by Judi Casey and Karen Corday
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Bradley Googins
Bradley K. Googins

Casey:
How do you define corporate citizenship?

Googins: Defining corporate citizenship is one of the challenges for those of us working in this field; there is no accepted definition. We even use different names: sustainability, corporate social responsibility, corporate responsibility. This used to bother me, but I decided not to try to create one name for us all to use. It boils down to answering the question “what is the role of business in society?”

Work-Family Project

CEO of Me: Creating a Life That Works in the Flexible Job Age
By Ellen Ernst Kossek and Brenda A. Lautsch

Cellphones…Internet…Blackberry…e-mail…wi-fi computers --- are all technological marvels meant to free us from the shackles of our cubicles, open our horizons to boundless opportunities and create an independence of telecommuting and flex-time for our work anywhere, anytime lifestyle.  It’s all designed to bring the American Dream directly to everyone…even faster.  But is it happening?

 LITERATURE UPDATES

The Sloan Work and Family Research Network maintains an online database which contains the citations and annotations of work-family research publications.

One year ago, there were 8,850 citations in the Literature Database. As of August 2008, we now have over 9,800 citations.

Each month, we highlight up to ten publications that have recently been entered into this database.

 UPCOMING ISSUES

Take Part in The Network News. Upcoming issues of The Network News will feature:

  • Tanja Van Der Lippe and Laura Den Dulk on the Quality of Life in Changing Europe
  • Chloe E. Bird and Patricia and Patricia P. Rieker on Gender and Health
  • Bruce Phillips of the National Federation of Independent Business

Is your work related to any of these topics? If so, please contact us.

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arrow Julie Weber, J.D., Policy Specialist
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