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Compliance (2024)
Book Chapter
Torres, L. D. (2024). Compliance. In L. Matthews, L. Bianchi, & C. Ingram (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (18-22). Edward Elgar Publishing

Compliance has become prevalent worldwide and especially following the passage of various national regulations such as the United States’ Sarbanes–Oxley Act, Australia’s Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Act, and the UK Bribery Act. The cost of b... Read More about Compliance.

Class, gender and the work of working-class women amid turbulent times (2024)
Journal Article
Warren, T., Torres, L., Lyonette, C., & Tarlo, R. (2024). Class, gender and the work of working-class women amid turbulent times. British Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13147

The article focuses on the work of working-class women (WCW) amid turbulent times. Its timespan is just prior to and during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. The women's work, and the key skills involved, are fundamental to everyday lives, but both ha... Read More about Class, gender and the work of working-class women amid turbulent times.

Have companies arisen to the challenge of promoting sustainable work? The role of responsible business practices in the context of evolving employment and working conditions (2023)
Journal Article
Jain, A., Ripa, D., & Torres, L. (2024). Have companies arisen to the challenge of promoting sustainable work? The role of responsible business practices in the context of evolving employment and working conditions. Safety Science, 170, Article 106364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106364

As understanding and recognition grows regarding the importance of improving employment and working conditions to advance individual, organizational, and national objectives, several policy approaches have been developed in an attempt to drive furthe... Read More about Have companies arisen to the challenge of promoting sustainable work? The role of responsible business practices in the context of evolving employment and working conditions.

The potential of responsible business to promote sustainable work – An analysis of CSR/ESG instruments (2023)
Journal Article
Torres, L., Ripa, D., Jain, A., Herrero, J., & Leka, S. (2023). The potential of responsible business to promote sustainable work – An analysis of CSR/ESG instruments. Safety Science, 164, Article 106151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106151

In the last few years important efforts have been made to rationalise the growing corporate sustainability or CSR/ESG standards field aiming at achieving some degree of harmonisation. Yet, these efforts might be unable to capture the diversity of CSR... Read More about The potential of responsible business to promote sustainable work – An analysis of CSR/ESG instruments.

The impact of national legislation on psychosocial risks on organisational action plans, psychosocial working conditions, and employee work-related stress in Europe (2022)
Journal Article
Jain, A., Torres, L. D., Teoh, K., & Leka, S. (2022). The impact of national legislation on psychosocial risks on organisational action plans, psychosocial working conditions, and employee work-related stress in Europe. Social Science and Medicine, 302, Article 114987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114987

Work-related psychosocial hazards are recognised as a key priority in the future of work. Even though European Union (EU) legislation requires employers to assess and manage all types of risks to workers’ health and safety associated with all types o... Read More about The impact of national legislation on psychosocial risks on organisational action plans, psychosocial working conditions, and employee work-related stress in Europe.

(Un) doing gender for achieving equality at work: The role of corporate social responsibility (2018)
Journal Article
Torres, L. D., Jain, A., & Leka, S. (2019). (Un) doing gender for achieving equality at work: The role of corporate social responsibility. Business Strategy and Development, 2(1), 32-39. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.40

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) research has been largely interested in answering the question of why more women at work is good for business, leaving unattended the question of how to achieve this, and how feminist theories can be integrated w... Read More about (Un) doing gender for achieving equality at work: The role of corporate social responsibility.

Expertons and uncertain averaging operators versus correlational approaches: A case study on corporate social responsibility and effectiveness (2017)
Journal Article
Yepes-Baldo, M., Boria-Reverter, S., Romeo, M., & Torres-Retamal, L. (2017). Expertons and uncertain averaging operators versus correlational approaches: A case study on corporate social responsibility and effectiveness. Kybernetes, 46(1), 38-49. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-06-2016-0127

Purpose
Our purpose is to explore the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), work-life balance (WLB) and effectiveness comparing (a) a correlational approach, (b) expertons method, and (c)
uncertain averaging operators (UA, UWA... Read More about Expertons and uncertain averaging operators versus correlational approaches: A case study on corporate social responsibility and effectiveness.

Employer’s civil liability for work-related accidents: A comparison of non-economic loss in Chile and England (2016)
Journal Article
Torres, L. D., & Jain, A. K. (2017). Employer’s civil liability for work-related accidents: A comparison of non-economic loss in Chile and England. Safety Science, 94, 197-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2016.12.010

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Employers’ civil liability for work injuries and subsequent compensation for non-economic losses represent challenges for many countries. Several countries in Latin America and Europe still do not apply non-economic damage standar... Read More about Employer’s civil liability for work-related accidents: A comparison of non-economic loss in Chile and England.