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Howdy SIMians.  For the non-Texans, I hope you've by now recovered from the heat of San Antonio.  For the Texans, I hope you're surviving the heat and drought still.  I write not to say, "hot enough fer ya'?" though.  I'm asking for some help.  I've embarked on a research project that aims to explain changes in the level of concern for social justice, ethics, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, etc. in a country.  Basically, some co-authors and I have some ideas for predictors of why countries overall might start to give more or less of a crap about social/environmental/governance/ethical issues over time.  But it turns out that having independent variables isn't enough, don't you know.  I need some decent measures for possible dependent variables. So, could you please let me know if you're aware of particular measures of concern for social justice, ethics, CSR, corp governance, environmental protection or something along these lines that hopefully is available at little or no cost and varies across countries and preferably over time?  It need not be only concern/perception/public opinion either – good outcome measures of change in these variables is quite welcome, too.

Thanks!  And I'll be pestering you soon for your submissions to the 2012 SIM PDW in Boston.  So please let that percolate, too!

Best,

Mike

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Michael L. Barnett

Professor of Strategy, Said Business School

Fellow in Management, St. Anne's College

University of Oxford

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