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Details
- 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.
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Part One: The Meaning and Origins of Corporate Responsibility
1: Introducing Corporate Responsibility
2: The Origins of Corporate Responsibility
3: Sustainable Development
4: Corporate Responsibility in Developing Economies
5: Globalization and Corporate Responsibility
Part Two: Managing and Implementing Corporate Responsibility
6: How Corporate Responsibility is Managed
7: The Place of Corporate Responsibility in the Corporate Governance Framework
8: Social Accounting
9: Stakeholder Management and Engagement
10: Socially Responsible Investment
11: Corporate Responsibility in Smaller Enterprises
Part Three: Impact, Critics, and Future of Corporate Responsibility
12: The Impact of Corporate Responsibility
13: Criticisms of Corporate Responsibility
14: The Future of Corporate Responsibility
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Mick Blowfield, Senior Research Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University; Teaching Fellow in Corporate Responsibility, London Business School; Visiting Professor, University of Middlesex Business School, and Alan Murray, Principal Teaching Fellow, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development, Leeds University Business School, and Visiting Lecturer at Cass Business School, and The York Management School
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"An excellent resource for students who want to understand why traditionally "soft" issues for business like human rights, the environment, or diversity have now become "hard" - hard to ignore, hard to manage, and very hard for businesses that get them wrong. " - David Grayson CBE, Director: The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management
"Interest in Corporate Responsibility has spread across the globe in leaps and bounds, but the field remains mired in rhetoric, confusion and controversy. To navigate this complex terrain there is no better learning tool than this textbook. " - Peter Utting, Deputy Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
"This book is the most comprehensive and in-depth overview of corporate responsibility currently available. It is the best resource for students and practitioners alike. The second edition is a valuable update. " - Gilbert Lenssen, Head of European Academy of Business and Society
"Blowfield and Murray's text deserves high praise. It is clear and readable and compares very favourably with others on offer. " - David Wornham, Bristol Business School
