Corporate Responsibility, 2nd Edition

• Comprehensive coverage of corporate social responsibility as a whole, ensuring a thorough understanding of the field.
• Contains a truly international spread of examples to engage the student reader.
• Accompanied by a substantial set of online resources for both students and lecturers, providing much needed support.
• Adopts a critical approach that encourages students to discuss and debate this important and ever-evolving area, therefore developing students' critical analysis skills.

New to this edition

• A new chapter on small and medium sized enterprises has been included to highlight this area of increasing importance.
• Increased coverage of social enterprise has been provided throughout the text.
• A dedicated chapter on developing economies has been added to the book.
• Longer end-of-chapter case studies have been incorporated in addition to the 'snapshot cases' within the text of each chapter, to provide material for extended seminar discussions or assignments.
• The Online Resource Centre has been updated and expanded; this now includes a number of film trailers related to corporate responsibility.

The second edition of this successful textbook examines the multiple dimensions to corporate responsibility. It creates 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 a critical 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 by students. This second edition provides an increased focus on developing countries, social enterprise, and small and medium-sized organizations.

Readership: Postgraduate and final year undergraduate students taking modules entitled corporate social responsibility, corporate responsibility and business and society. Such modules may sometimes appear under titles such as 'management with social goals', or be linked with related subjects such as business ethics. The content could also be applicable for more general modules in areas such as strategic management where there is a high CSR focus.