1. Introduction: ESG and Corporate Accountability -- 2. Emergence of ESG Principles -- 3. ESG-Related Theoretical Frameworks -- 4. Public Policies -- 5. Corporate Strategy -- 6. Strategy Selection -- 7. Strategy Implementation -- 8. Approach to ESG Policy -- 9. ESG Stakeholders -- 10. ESG in...

Life blood of business i.e. human resource, intellectual capital, finance, material etc are all the resources in absence of which no commercial activity have an initiation, growth and survival. Corporate around the world have an onus and pious responsibility to repay the society for every...

In this paper, we replicate and expand Hawn, Chatterji, & Mitchell (2018) that used DJSI events to measure variations in firms' CSR-activism and examined their effect on a firm's stock price. We use DJSI events to capture variations in firms' CSR visibility, holding CSR-activism constant by...

The pressure is on to enhance corporate reputations, achieve higher operational efficiency, improve planning and control, gain access to mineral resources, build trust with stakeholders, attract financing, recruit and retain a quality workforce, and lower costs. Sustainable Management of Mining...

This chapter works through the evolution of the concept of sustainability that has occurred over the last several decades under the influence of three main groups: ecologists, the United Nation’s World Commission on Environment and Development, often referred to as the “Brundtland...

This paper begins by examining the history of ISO 26000, ‘Guidance on Social Responsibility’. It then compares it with three other international standards in the field of CSR. After a brief examination of its contents, it offers a short critique of the Standard. The Standard assumes that, by...

This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company. As he prepared for his quarterly meeting with the CEO, the Director of Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically, he needed to recommend whether the company...

Contemporary labor organizing, with all its vibrance, variety, and vigor, seems to be in a virtuous cycle in which organizing success prompts favorable public attention, which in turn contributes to more organizing. More employees struck in 2019 than in any year since 1986. Since 2010, support...

This paper studies the development of a firm’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance following the issuance of “green loans” earmarked for green projects versus “sustainable loans” to firms bench-marked by ESG criteria. Firms issuing green loans appear to be effective...