Corporate Social Responsibility And Entrepreneurship For Sustainability

Author : Young Won Park,Ye Jin Park
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811634604

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship for Sustainability by Young Won Park,Ye Jin Park Pdf

This book addresses the dilemma that firms face in engaging in corporate social responsibility (CSR) while maintaining a financially sustainable business model in the era of digital transformation. Several strategies that firms have taken to integrate CSR within the business model are also highlighted. To explicate the problems involved, the book primarily focuses on entrepreneurial ventures, given their nascent business model that best illustrates how business leaders can embed the social mission in the firm at the beginning of organizational founding. In this age, sustainability is an innovation’s new frontier. For sustainable competitive advantage, the book argues for how companies can build more sustainable products, processes, and practices that benefit the firm and society through maintaining an entrepreneurial philosophy. The target readership consists of academics, students, and practitioners in the areas of entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and strategic management. This book clarifies the critical practices of sustainability-oriented innovative firms and creative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Through a review of recent trends in CSR, the authors emphasize that CSR is no longer a “bolt-on” or some kind of window-dressing to satisfy public relations (PR) needs. Credible CSR is critical to business legitimacy and sustainability. Aware of the public’s increasing scrutiny, companies are increasingly ramping up their focus on social responsibility, whether by championing women's rights, protecting the environment, or attempting to obliterate poverty, on local, national, or global levels. Simultaneously, more firms face accusations of “greenwashing” – backlash due to consumer mistrust in the intentions behind their CSR practices. While numerous works have highlighted this dilemma and how companies fall short in their prosocial goals or financial objectives (or both), there is a lack of understanding of the ingredients and crucial processes required for the successful implementation of CSR in entrepreneurial enterprises. This book serves to fill that gap.

Author : Joan Marques,Satinder Dhiman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030396763

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Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility by Joan Marques,Satinder Dhiman Pdf

This book provides professionals, as well as students, with the understanding that Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are now core business principles for sustainably. It encourages social entrepreneurs in their role as forerunners, in creating new business models that develop, facilitate or implement constructive solutions to social, cultural and environmental issues. At the same time, this book views corporate social responsibility as a means of challenging existing entities to realize and modify prior unsustainable and predatory business models; and to increase social, cultural and environmental accountability. By linking these two concepts, this book prompts a paradigmatic awakening, whereby the foundational driver of business creation and management no longer rests on profit maximization, but on improvement of the quality of life for society.

Author : Gurtu, Amulya
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799823490

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Recent Advancements in Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility by Gurtu, Amulya Pdf

In an effort to safeguard the environment, consumers have begun pressuring global businesses to create environmentally-friendly products and sustainable business practices that promote the preservation and protection of communities and nature. To create and maintain positive consumer relationships, new and existing businesses must enact policies that allow them to make an effective and smooth transition toward sustainability to contribute to economic growth by creating offerings with environmental and social value. Recent Advancements in Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility provides emerging research that examines entrepreneurial strategies and business practices that can be implemented to provide eco-friendly services to the community and that offer solutions to various social and environmental problems. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as green marketing, corporate identity, and business ethics, this book is ideally designed for CSR managers, human resources professionals, entrepreneurs, managers, executives, corporate leaders, business professionals, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on the expanding area of sustainable business practices.

Author : Kenneth Amaeshi,Paul Nnodim,Osuji Onyeka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136176517

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation by Kenneth Amaeshi,Paul Nnodim,Osuji Onyeka Pdf

Despite its recent popularity in literature, theory, and practice, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) remains a vague concept that struggles to define itself beyond the confines of corporate philanthropy or sustainability. In some circles, it is a response to the present and anticipated climate change challenges, while in others it focuses on fair trade, corporate governance, and responsible investment. What then is CSR, and how do we understand its purpose? In Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, authors Kenneth Amaeshi and Paul Nnodim consider the governance of corporate externalities (positive and negative impacts of firms on society and the environment) as the main thrust of the CSR discourse – a field that hitherto only the state has regulated, with sometimes coercive actions. This book contributes to the theorization of CSR by presenting the meaning of CSR in a clear and distinct manner, giving the ongoing CSR debate a new direction anchored on a firm economic philosophy. It reinforces the view of firms as social institutions as well as economic actors, establishing CSR as a form of justice rather than philanthropy. Articulating CSR as private governance of corporate externalities, for the first time, this book provides researchers with a new paradigm to translate knowledge into action and offers reflective managers an alternative framework in which to explore their corporate strategies and decisions.

Author : John O. Okpara,Samuel O. Idowu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642409752

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Corporate Social Responsibility by John O. Okpara,Samuel O. Idowu Pdf

In today's global business environment it is no longer acceptable that a corporation does well simply by doing good. It is expected. With increasing pressures from stakeholders to improve the bottom line as well as to be good corporate citizens, business leaders face tough decisions. What social issues should we support? What initiatives should we develop that will do the most good for the company as well as the cause? Do we include social messages in our advertising, encourage our employees to volunteer, do we modify our business practices? How do we integrate a new initiative into current strategies? These and other challenges will continue to face future leaders. This book provides thoughtful answers to these important questions, and to many more. The book offers suggestions on how to choose among major worthy causes and also how to measure the amount of good achieved both for the recipients and the companies themselves. Of course, all is not only about challenges, there are loads of opportunities that go along with them but it’s only responsible and sustainable leaders who would be able to spot these opportunities. That is the future which awaits 21st century leaders.

Author : Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez,Liam Leonard
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781906255

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International Business, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility by Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez,Liam Leonard Pdf

This is the first in a two volume study of Corporate Social Responsibility and corporate behaviour from around the world, taking in viewpoints from five continents and over ten countries. These case studies present a detailed analysis of best practice in the corporate world in the areas of social ethics and community engagement.

Author : Reinhard Altenburger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319936291

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Innovation Management and Corporate Social Responsibility by Reinhard Altenburger Pdf

This book provides readers with in-depth insights into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability strategies, as well as their impacts on product and process innovation, business models and social innovation around the globe. It explains how resource issues, climate change, the impacts of pollution and economic activities, and emerging social challenges inevitably lead to changes in the business environment, cost structure and competitive advantage. Further, it highlights how these changes influence the process of innovation, and how companies can gain an edge by integrating stakeholder groups in their innovation process, and by considering sustainability and the needs of society at large. The book reflects the immense strides made in recent years in the discussion about the relationship between business and society, and demonstrates the increasing impact on innovation management.

Author : Martín-de Castro, Gregorio,González-Masip, Jaime
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799848349

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Knowledge Management for Corporate Social Responsibility by Martín-de Castro, Gregorio,González-Masip, Jaime Pdf

In a changing and complex environment currently facing the main challenges of sustainable development, effective management of knowledge, intellectual assets, organizational learning, and talent management are the basis for social innovation and new ways of competition. In this sense, management and business practice are incorporating social and environmental demands made by all types of stakeholders to improve business decisions and strategies. Knowledge Management for Corporate Social Responsibility provides research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of linking firm profitability, social development, and natural environment in respect to business management practices. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as employer branding, intellectual capital, and organizational performance, this book is ideally designed for business professionals, small business owners, entrepreneurs, academicians, researchers, and business students.

Author : Francisca Farache,Georgiana Grigore,Alin Stancu,David McQueen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030524661

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Values and Corporate Responsibility by Francisca Farache,Georgiana Grigore,Alin Stancu,David McQueen Pdf

In this book we capture and explore different aspects of value in corporate social responsibility (CSR). This includes the historical development of value in CSR, how value is linked to a positive vision of the future, and how it is communicated by a range of private and public organisations to various audiences. The book contrasts corporate strategic value with co-operative value, and community value in the context of sustainable development. It explains how leaders’ values can drive responsible business practice and enhance social cohesion, solidarity and resilience in fractured and unequal communities. The book asks the reader to consider what value means in CSR for business and society, where it comes from and how it is enacted, alongside its broader purpose and value to the community. Finally, the book presents CSR as a global project by noting how values are cultural and how sustainability has become an urgent international priority.

Author : Joan Marques,Satinder Dhiman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Entrepreneurship
ISBN : 3030396770

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Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility by Joan Marques,Satinder Dhiman Pdf

This book provides professionals, as well as students, with the understanding that Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are now core business principles for sustainably. It encourages social entrepreneurs in their role as forerunners, in creating new business models that develop, facilitate or implement constructive solutions to social, cultural and environmental issues. At the same time, this book views corporate social responsibility as a means of challenging existing entities to realize and modify prior unsustainable and predatory business models; and to increase social, cultural and environmental accountability. By linking these two concepts, this book prompts a paradigmatic awakening, whereby the foundational driver of business creation and management no longer rests on profit maximization, but on improvement of the quality of life for society.

Author : Christina Weidinger,Franz Fischler,René Schmidpeter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642387531

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Sustainable Entrepreneurship by Christina Weidinger,Franz Fischler,René Schmidpeter Pdf

Sustainable Entrepreneurship stands for a business driven concept of sustainability which focusses on increasing both social as well as business value - so called Shared Value. This book shows why and how this unique concept has the potential to become the most recognised strategic management approach in our times. It aims to point out the opportunities that arise from putting sustainable entrepreneurship into practice. At the same time, this book is a wake-up call for all those companies and decision makers who underestimated Sustainable Entrepreneurship before or who are simply not aware of its greater dimension. Well structured chapters from different academic and business perspectives clearly outline how Sustainable Entrepreneurship contributes to solving the world's most challenging problems, such as Climate Change, Finance Crisis and Political Uncertainty, as well as to ensuring business success. The book provides a framework of orientation where the journey might go: What can a successful concept of SE look like? What are the key drivers for its realisation? What is the role of business in shaping the future of our society? The book also presents best practices and provides unique learnings as well as business insights from the international Sustainable Entrepreneurship Award (www.se-award.org). The Sustainable Entrepreneurship Award (short SEA) is an award for companies today who are thinking about tomorrow by making sustainable business practices an integral part of their corporate culture. Companies that receive the SEA are being recognised for the vision they have shown in combining economic and sustainable responsibility.

Author : Debbie Haski-Leventhal
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529764628

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Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility by Debbie Haski-Leventhal Pdf

With the changing expectations of consumers, employees and regulators, being best in the world is no longer enough. Businesses are now also expected to be best for the world: to be socially and environmentally responsible, sustainable and ethical. Based on the idea that strategic CSR offers the most holistic and effective approach to corporate social responsibility, the author presents the key concepts, theories and philosophical approaches to CSR, along with the practical tools needed to implement this knowledge in the real world. The book is split into three parts; the first part provides the theoretical background of CSR, the second part examines various CSR approaches and how they can be implemented, and the third part discusses measuring and communicating CSR. New this edition is also a chapter titled ‘The S in CSR: Social and Global Issues’. Each chapter contains questions for reflection & discussion, exercises, and case studies from globally recognised brands such as Ben & Jerry′s, Google, H&M, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Patagonia, Puma, Unilever and Whole Foods. The book is complemented by chapter specific lecturer PowerPoint slides, a draft syllabus and an instructor′s manual. Suitable reading for students on Corporate Social Responsibility modules.

Author : Wayne Visser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351277624

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The Quest for Sustainable Business by Wayne Visser Pdf

In January 2010, author, academic and social entrepreneur Dr Wayne Visser set off on a nine-month, 20-country "quest" to talk to entrepreneurs, business leaders and innovators and learn about how companies in all parts of the world can and are helping to tackle the world's most pressing social and environmental problems. His aim was to explore the many varieties of global approaches to sustainable business practices first-hand and to share some of the most innovative global examples.The result is this treasure trove of a book, full of stories, ideas, links to more than 100 video interviews, best practices and tools for making sustainable business work in a myriad of different contexts, cultures and settings. Besides sharing insights from his 2010 "CSR Quest World Tour", the author captures his professional experiences and the evolution of sustainable business over the past 20 years.The path begins in Africa and winds its way through Asia, North America, Europe, Australasia and Latin America. The author shares what he has learned in encounters with mega-corporations and small farmers, and conversations with CEOs and social entrepreneurs. There are facts and figures about world trends, and interviews with thought leaders and activists. This is a tale that consciously weaves the personal and the professional, mixing anecdotes and case studies. It looks outwards and reflects inwards, and is both autobiography and the life story of a global movement.

Author : Alessia D'Amato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Decision making
ISBN : 1600000002

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Business: A Guide to Their Leadership Tasks and Functions by Alessia D'Amato Pdf

Author : Suzanne Benn,Dianne Bolton
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847879295

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Key Concepts in Corporate Social Responsibility by Suzanne Benn,Dianne Bolton Pdf

Introducing the key concepts in corporate social responsibility, Suzanne Benn brings together the essential issues relevant to the responsible management of businesses, not-for-profit organizations and government. With detailed coverage and cross-referencing for each concept and over 50 concepts introduced, this guide to both the theory and implementation of CSR and sustainability, provides an indispensable reference for any student of the subject.