Corporate Social Responsibility: Corporate Social Responsibility
About the Book Series
Presenting applied research from an academic perspective on all aspects of corporate social responsibility, this global series includes books for those with an interest in ethics and governance, corporate behaviour and citizenship, regulation, protest, globalisation, responsible marketing, social reporting, and sustainability.
Auditor Independence: Auditing, Corporate Governance and Market Confidence
1st Edition
By Ismail Adelopo
October 14, 2024
In Auditor Independence, Ismail Adelopo argues that the importance of auditors' independence cannot be over-emphasised. Not only do auditors provide certification of the truth and fairness of the information prepared by managers, they also have a duty to express opinions on the degree of compliance...
Human Dignity and Managerial Responsibility: Diversity, Rights, and Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By David Crowther, Ana Maria Davila Gomez
October 14, 2024
The issue of human rights, in the context of corporate social responsibility, is normally taken to relate to concern about exploitation in the supply chain - child labour, slavery in developing countries, and similar evils; but of course, human rights are engaged in relation to the treatment of ...
Making Ecopreneurs: Developing Sustainable Entrepreneurship
2nd Edition
Edited
By Michael Schaper
October 14, 2024
The first edition of this book looked at the emergence of 'ecopreneurs' - environmental entrepreneurs gaining competitive advantage for their firms through understanding and utilising green issues. These green entrepreneurs have led the way in enabling market forces to generate economic growth ...
Towards Ecological Taxation: The Efficacy of Emissions-Related Motor Taxation
1st Edition
By David Russell
October 14, 2024
Governments around the world are struggling to meet their commitments to achieve targets relating to reductions in greenhouse gases. Many writers advocating ways to achieve these targets offer radical but often impractical approaches that do not offer a way forward within the existing economic ...
A Handbook of Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
1st Edition
By Güler Aras, David Crowther
June 24, 2024
The current economic situation has highlighted deficiencies in corporate governance while also showing the importance of stakeholder relations. It has also raised the profile of the debates regarding corporate social responsibility and shown the inter-relationship with governance. And the two ...
Corruption in International Business: The Challenge of Cultural and Legal Diversity
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon Eicher
June 24, 2024
It is common practice to assume that business practices are universally similar. Business and social attitudes to corruption, however, vary according to the wide variety of cultural norms across the countries of the world. International business involves complex, ethically challenging, and ...
Ageing Populations and Changing Labour Markets: Social and Economic Impacts of the Demographic Time Bomb
1st Edition
Edited
By Stella Vettori
August 23, 2018
Talk of a demographic time bomb is not new. The notion first entered public consciousness some time ago, but there is a lack of clarity about what such talk is really all about. Ageing populations are seen both as a threat and an opportunity. There is concern about discrimination against older ...
Territories of Social Responsibility: Opening the Research and Policy Agenda
1st Edition
Edited
By David Crowther, Patricia Almeida Ashley
May 25, 2017
CSR is a fragile concept if conceived only at the organizational level or driven only by leadership will. Many writers deal with aspects of social responsibility, but most deal with it as this kind of organizational and voluntary initiative. Few address the wider policy agenda. The contributors to ...
Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Buckingham, Venkataraman Nilakant
November 16, 2016
In the wake of financial meltdown and environmental disaster, employers increasingly demand that managers have an understanding of ethical decision making, corporate social responsibility and values-based management. Business ethics is therefore increasingly being taught in business schools and is ...
Corporate Community Involvement: A Visible Face of CSR in Practice
1st Edition
By Bilge Uyan-Atay
May 13, 2016
There has been tremendous growth in Corporate Community Involvement (CCI) projects of all sizes in recent years. This has been encouraged by organisations such as Business in the Community in the UK, which provides information designed to motivate businesses and government to engage in CCI. In fact...
The Balanced Company: Organizing for the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Inger Jensen, John Damm Scheuer
December 18, 2013
Today’s organizations are embedded in global and local network relationships that demand more. They have to consider the importance to customers, investors and employees of being respected in wider society and behaving ethically, so it is increasingly important for companies to reflect ...
Global Perspectives on Corporate Governance and CSR
1st Edition
Edited
By David Crowther, Güler Aras
November 28, 2009
Good governance is good PR, it is important in every sphere of society, whether it be the corporate environment, the political, or wider society. When resources are too limited to meet the minimum expectations of the people, it is a good governance level that can help to promote the welfare of ...