An array of pedagogical features and online resources take the text beyond the scope of existing corporate responsibility literature, providing much neededsupport for students. Provides a comprehensive treatment of corporate responsibility with a clear focus, summarising and comparing the different interpretations of corporate responsibility and management approaches, ensuring a thorough understanding of the field. Takes a critical approach to the subject enabling students to debate and discuss issues, thereby developing their critical analysis skills.This much needed textbook examines the multiple dimensions to corporate responsibility, creating a framework that presents a historical and interdisciplinary overview of the field, a summary of different management approaches, and a review of the key actors and trends worldwide. The authors take acritical perspective and successfully provide a balance between theory and practice. They offer comprehensive coverage of the subject, combining an insightful, interdisciplinary, approach with the pedagogy and support sought after bystudents. An online resource centre will accompany the text, comprising weblinks, new legislation, further reading, email listservs and links to courses for students, and case studies and essay questions for lecturers. INDICE: Part One: The Meaning and Origins of Corporate Responsibility. 1. Introducing Corporate Responsibility. 2. The Origins of Corporate Responsibility. 3. Globalization and International Development. Part Two: Managing and implementing corporate responsibility. 4. How Corporate Responsibility is Managed. 5. The Business Case for Corporate Responsibility. 6. Stakeholders, Standards, and Regional Variations. 7. Social Acounting. 8. The Place of Corporate Responsibility in the Corporate Governance Framework. 9. Sustainable Development.10. Stakeholder Partnerships. 11. Socially Responsible Investment. Part Three: The Impact, Critics, and Future of Corporate Responsibility. 12. The Impact of Corporate Responsibility. 13. Criticisms of Corporate Responsibility. 14. The Future of Corporate Responsibility. 13. Criticisms of Corporate Responsibility
- ISBN: 978-0-19-920909-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 456
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés