Responsibility and Social Capital

Laura J. Spence is a Senior Lecturer at Brunel University, UK, and member of Brunel Research in Enterprise, Sustainability and Ethics (BRESE). She was an executive member of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) from 1998-2002. Dr Spence has published widely on the Ethics of Small Firms and Comparative European Business Ethics. Andre Habisch is Director of the Center for Corporate Citizenship, University of Elchstatt, Germany. In 2000, he was a member of the Inquiry Commission of the German Bundestag on the Future of Civic Engagement. Professor Habisch's research interests include social capital and corporate citizenship, on which he has published extensively. Rene Schmidpeter is General Manager of the Center for Corporate Citizenship, University of Eichstatt, Germany. He was educated in Germany and the UK. Mr Schmidpeter's research interests include social capital, family issues and corporate citizenship. He is currently completing his doctoral studies.

• Introduction; L.J.Spence, A.Werner & M.Wegner Literature Review: Social Capital and SMEs; A.Werner & L.J.Spence Social Responsibility, Social Capital, Citizenship and SMEs; A.Habisch Social Responsibility, Profit Maximization and the Small Firm Owner-Manager; L.J.Spence & R.Rutherford SMEs, Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Bavaria and West London; R.Schmidpeter & L.J.Spence Social Captial as a Long-Term Resource Amongst Ethnic Networks: The South Asian Business Community in Britain; S.Janjuha-Jivraj Engaging SMEs in Community and Social Issues; C.Southwell Corporate Citizenship and SMEs in Germany: A New Institutional Economics Perspective; F.Maaß Strategies and Instruments for Organizing Corporate Social Responsibility by Small and Large Businesses in the Netherlands; J.Graafland, B.van de Ven & N.Stoffele Aristotle in Your Local Garage: Enlarging Social Capital with an Ethics Test; L.Preuss The Social World of SMEs: The Way Forward; K.Dickson, A.Habisch, R.Schmidpeter, L.Spence & A.Werner