Research on corporate social reporting should move on from an initial phase of observation and description to a phase aimed at improvement of available techniques and actual practice. The appropriate criterion for improvement is the development of information systems directly useful to management in monitoring and, where appropriate, altering corporate social performance. Future research should be aimed at (1) developing better techniques of data collection and analysis, and (2) analyzing managerial use of social performance information, and the organizational changes that result.

This diary study examines the daily crossover of self-esteem within working couples. By integrating self-esteem research into the crossover framework, we hypothesized that the day-specific self-esteem experienced by one partner after work crosses over to the other partner. Furthermore, we proposed that this daily crossover process is moderated by the other partner's general level of self-esteem and empathic concern. We conducted a diary study over five consecutive working days among 102 working couples. Multilevel analyses using the actor-partner interdependence model supported our hypotheses. Day-specific self-esteem experienced by one partner after work crossed over to the other partner in the evening, particularly when this partner had a generally low level of self-esteem and a generally high level of empathic concern.

Protection of the physical environment and abatement of specific pollution problems are now generally recognized as major aspects of the corporation-society relationship. This paper views a number of attempts to develop formal corporate policy statements and accounting-reporting procedures dealing with these problems. A specific implementation proposal is presented and illustrated with data from several different field studies conducted by the authors.