European approaches to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are supposed to be largely different from those in other continents like America, Asia, and Africa. Yet, European approaches to CSR are not a single and static one, but vary across and within national states and shift over time. This edited volume aims at exploring the uniqueness and complexity of European CSR approaches, perspectives, and practices through a critical lens. It contributes to existing understanding of European CSR by addressing the frontier CSR issues in the current state at the EU, national and institutional levels. Specifically, the volume critically examines the macro-level CSR frameworks, policies, and trends and their impact on CSR practices at the micro-level, including the roles of EU and national governments in shaping the CSR landscape in similar and different ways. It also analyses how various stakeholder groups and business sectors and firms across major European countries perceive, interpret and approach CSR in a dynamic way. Contributors of this book are experts mainly from Western and Eastern European countries and thus provide rich experiences, fresh insights, and deep understanding of the critical state of CSR in Europe.
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This book contains 16 essays on corporate social responsibility approaches, perspectives, and practices in Europe and their role, operation, and impact. Business and other scholars mainly from Europe offer theoretical insights, practice-based case study analysis, and critical approaches detailing corporate social responsibility policies and approaches at the macro-level, including policy agenda co-design, how corporate governance codes approach corporate social responsibility, corporate social responsibility and the employment of people with disabilities, whether active or neutral governmental approaches to corporate social responsibility lead to better results, the role of public policy in corporate social responsibility in Germany, and the failed attempt to develop a national corporate social responsibility policy in Slovenia; corporate social responsibility development in different contexts, particularly transnational companies and socio-cultural differences in the understanding and development of corporate social responsibility in Germany and Croatia; corporate social responsibility perceptions and attitudes from the perspective of stakeholders, including consumers in Germany, MBA students, and business students in Poland; and implementation in organizations, with discussion of fiscal responsibility, the French transport sector, frugal eco-innovation, Italian nonprofit organizations, and corporate social responsibility in relation to social ontology. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *



Book Information
ISBN 9781787561502
Author Ralph Tench
Format Hardback
Page Count 384
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 649g