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...

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...

Ethics, social responsibility, leadership, governance. These terms are heard in the classroom, in the boardroom, and viewed on the front page of newspapers and magazines. Yet serious attention to the relationships among these concepts is lacking. Although commitments to leadership, ethics, and...

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...

The intersection of business and human rights contains substantial economic, social, and political implications. Global business enterprises and civil society groups must establish a constructive and meaningful dialogue in order to work cooperatively to protect human rights. In this innovative...

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...

pt. 1. Corporate social responsibility's contemporary controversies and architecture -- pt. 2. Corporate social responsibility's regulatory maps and options -- pt. 3. Corporate social responsibility's applications and futures.

1. Regulatory impact assessment : an overview -- 2. Current trends in the process and methods of regulatory impact assessment : mainstreaming RIA into policy processes -- 3. Indicators of regulatory quality -- 4. Measuring RIA quality and performance -- 5. Better regulation and impact assessment...

pt. 1. Conceptual, theoretical and methodological clarifications -- pt. 2. Individual initiatives for ethical innovations -- pt. 3. Toward innovative and ethical organizations -- pt. 4. Systemic changes for ethical innovations.

A companion volume to the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption published in 2006, the specially commissioned papers in Volume Two present some of the best policy-oriented research in the field. They stress the institutional roots of corruption and include new research on topics...