It can be argued that Corporate Social Responsibility has been universally accepted and is gradually being incorporated into the planning and activities of all organisations around the world. The subject of CSR has been debated and theorized over the last 25 years, to such an extent that we can claim to have arrived at a theoretical understanding as well as an understanding of what constitutes best practice.The aspects which merit attention have also been generally agreed - at least according to the majority of researchers. Present attention is directed towards such things as sustainability. This book, however, takes a different approach and argues that there has been a divergence between what academics understand by corporate social responsibility and what is practiced in the world - both in business and elsewhere within society. Through a series of studies of aspects of CSR from around the world, it re-examines the topic though the lenses of various disciplines and cultures. It shows that the subject is much wider than is generally perceived and that CSR is evolving in a way which has not been generally recognized within the academic community. Invaluable to researchers and students in the field, this book contributes towards a much-needed redefinition of CSR.

About the Author
David Crowther is Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at De Montfort University, UK; Research Professor at London School of Commerce, UK and Visiting Professor at Shanghai University, China. He is Founding Chair of the Social Responsibility Research Network and has published more than 50 books and 400 articles and shorter works.
Shahla Seifi is an engineer by training and worked at a senior level preparing standards for the national institute of Iran before moving to the UK. She is now Visiting Researcher at the University of Derby, UK; organises SRRNet conferences and runs her own consultancy.

Reviews
This volume contains 11 essays by an international group of researchers, who examine the actual practice of corporate social responsibility and the current relationship between practice and theory around the world. They discuss the revised ISO14001:2015 environmental standard and climate change, rethinking corporate social responsibility in capitalist neoliberal times, the adoption of integrated reporting, political corporate social responsibility communication and consumer outrage, the need to rediscover corporate social responsibility, socially responsible aspects hidden from researchers, traditional artisans as stakeholders in corporate social responsibility in the Indian context, reinventing corporate social responsibility in Nigeria, managers' perceptions of employment practices and human rights for Indonesian women employees, the influence of corporate governance and human governance on financial crime and the personal characteristics of top executives involved in this crime, and the roles of perceived organizational retaliation and upward communication satisfaction in employee whistleblowing. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *



Book Information
ISBN 9781787561625
Author Professor David Crowther
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 485g