The acid test of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is simply this: does it lead to positive impacts on society and the environment or is it just rhetoric? And if it does lead to positive impacts, how can these be enhanced? This timely book tackles this cutting-edge challenge by presenting...

Return the lost water back to the continents / Michal Kravcik -- Taking responsibility : breaking away from hate and violence / Judy Korn -- Not about the number of seats in parliament : education for democracy and its places / Krzysztof Stanowski -- We call it work / Philipp Albers, Holm Friebe...

Over the last decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has contributed towards better corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and basic human rights violations. However, as the author argues in this important new book, the time has now come to...

This book-- the third in the Movements in Entrepreneurship series-- examines entrepreneurship as a societal phenomenon. It provides an in-depth study of the social aspects of entrepreneurship, illustrating how entrepreneurship affects society. The need to move beyond economy to disclose...

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of current research and theory about why and how corporations should play a more active role in fulfilling their global citizenship obligations and responsibilities

Marguerite Schneider (2002), 'A Stakeholder Model of Organizational Leadership', Organization Science, 13 (2), March-April, 209-20 -- R. Edward Freeman and Robert A. Phillips (2002), 'Stakeholder Theory: A Libertarian Defense', Business Ethics Quarterly, 12 (3), July, 331-49 -- Richard A. Wolfe...

What is the role of international business in this dilemma? How and why do international corporations maximize value beyond core strategy and partners through corporate responsibility? This informative and accessible resource expands the readers' understanding of the ways in which profit...

This insightful book provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of CSR in a diverse range of countries including the UK, Italy, Poland, Turkey, the USA, the Middle East, Australia, Japan and Korea. Christine Mallin has brought together leading experts from both academia and the...

This book adds a multi-disciplinary organizational perspective to the theoretical analysis of political accountability and argues for a broadening of the conventional understanding of the concepts of responsibility and accountability