Corporate Social Responsibility Series: Corporate Social Responsibility Series
About the Book Series
This series aims to provide high quality research books on all aspects of corporate social responsibility including: business ethics, corporate governance and accountability, globalization, civil protests, regulation, responsible marketing and social reporting. The series is interdisciplinary in scope and global in application and is an essential forum for everyone with an interest in this area.
Capitalist Networks and Social Power in Australia and New Zealand
1st Edition
By Georgina Murray
October 12, 2017
It is often asserted that the ruling elite in Western capitalist economies now consists of liberal intellectuals and their media sympathisers. By contrast this book looks at the real elite in Australian and New Zealand society and shows that there is still a ruling class based upon economic ...
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Industries
1st Edition
By Natalia Yakovleva
March 06, 2017
Based on the concept of corporate social responsibility, this book analyses modern approaches adopted by mining companies that could minimise negative impacts of mining and enhance positive benefits to corporate stakeholders. Using a case study of two mining sectors (gold and diamond mining) the ...
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in Developing Countries: The Case of Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Ataur Rahman Belal
September 28, 2008
Historically, the study of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting has largely been within the context of Western economies. However, in the wake of highly publicized incidents such as Bhopal and the struggle of the Ogoni people in Nigeria, many large corporations now claim to be taking ...
Ethics, Psyche and Social Responsibility
1st Edition
Edited
By David Crowther, Ana Maria Davila Gomez
August 28, 2007
The last few decades have seen significant changes in the structure of business organizations, including downsizing, outsourcing and flattened management structures. The effects on employees have been considerable. In this context the importance of the psychological contract between employer and ...
Higher Education and Civic Engagement: International Perspectives
1st Edition
By Iain Mac Labhrainn, Lorraine McIlrath
June 28, 2007
This volume provides an original and powerful contribution to debates about the civic purpose of higher education. It suggests that universities can best realize their civic mission by making it central to their policy and practice. Bringing together researchers from three continents, the book ...
Managing Corporate Social Responsibility in Action: Talking, Doing and Measuring
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank den Hond, Frank de Bakker
May 28, 2007
Since the mid 1990s political and public debates about the social responsibilities of firms have gained renewed force. Although CSR seems to be a well defined concept in management literature, in its diverse applications the CSR concept loses much of its pertinence. In Managing Corporate Social ...
The Employment Contract and the Changed World of Work
1st Edition
By Stella Vettori
April 25, 2007
The world of work has undergone major changes in the last two decades. This book examines these changes in their international context. It is argued that collective bargaining should no longer be viewed as the most important means of regulating the employment relationship. In the changed world of ...
Whistleblowing and Organizational Social Responsibility: A Global Assessment
1st Edition
By Wim Vandekerckhove
October 17, 2006
Establishing a policy and building a culture that helps to protect organizations from financial wrong-doing, criminal or civil liability and permanent damage to corporate reputation has become a central theme of contemporary corporate policies towards 'whistleblowing'. This book is amongst the ...
Corporate Social Performance: A Stakeholder Approach
1st Edition
By Stuart Cooper
September 28, 2004
Corporate social performance has come of age. In a business environment characterized by its perpetual state of flux, the ability to recognize and react to global forces becomes paramount. The fallout of such rapid change - the fast-paced developments in communications and technology, the continual...
Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
1st Edition
Edited
By David Crowther, Lez Rayman-Bacchus
January 28, 2004
Over the last decade the question of the relationship between organizations and society has been subject to much debate, often of a critical nature. The decade has seen protests concerning the actions of organizations, exposures of corporate exploitation and unfolding accounting scandals. At the ...