Overview
- Develops strategic approaches that enable CSR processes to be developed
- Differentiates and integrates the various stages of CSR development
- Includes case studies from various regions and across different industries
Part of the book series: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance (CSEG)
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About this book
This book presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted view of the state of corporate social responsibility (CSR) development in organizations in different industries around the world. It is based on the assumption that companies today must shift their focus to their long-term prosperity and the complex and interrelated environmental, social, economic and political ecosystems within which they function.
The book tracks ideas through to impacts, offering unique perspectives on stimulating topics such as awareness among female entrepreneurs in Nigeria, views of upper-management in Polish firms, Japanese CSR strategies and the social relevance of corporate initiatives, pragmatic approaches of CSR design principles in Scandinavia and many more. The book collects not only examples from different countries and global regions, but also cases from a diverse range of globally relevant industries. It discusses the different stages of CSR development at a professional, conceptual and strategic level, and integrates them into a comprehensive framework to define the adequate course of action for each stage.
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Keywords
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Professional Corporate Social Responsibility
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Conceptual Corporate Social Responsibility
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Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stephen Vertigans is Head of School of Applied Social Studies, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK. His research interests include Corporate Social Responsibility in the energy sector, with particular attention placed upon social impacts in Africa. To this end he has visited numerous African countries to help build capacity and to investigate how CSR approaches can help overcome deep rooted social problems and political tensions. Stephen was instrumental in the introduction of a MSc programme looking at CSR and Energy. He has published widely across a range of fields including Corporate Social Responsibility, African studies and forms of political violence.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stages of Corporate Social Responsibility
Book Subtitle: From Ideas to Impacts
Editors: Samuel O. Idowu, Stephen Vertigans
Series Title: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43536-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43535-0Published: 11 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82850-3Published: 28 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43536-7Published: 04 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2196-7075
Series E-ISSN: 2196-7083
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 247
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Business Strategy/Leadership, Environmental Management, Marketing