Corporate impact : measuring and managing your social footprint / Adrian Henriques.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henriques, Adrian, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social responsibility of business.

Sustainability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Washington : Earthscan, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is widely accepted that sustainability has an inescapable social component, but companies find it very hard to understand and measure their social impacts. Why is this? This book, by noted CSR practitioner, consultant and educator Adrian Henriques, provides the first coherent approach to identifying, understanding, measuring and accounting for corporate social impact. Beginning with an analysis of the nature of corporate social impact and the role of the stakeholder, the complex relationship of social impact to economic and environmental impacts is explored. This naturally leads to an exam

Contents:

Cover; Corporate Impact: Measuring and Managing Your Social Footprint; Copyright; Contents; Boxes, Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Social Purpose of Companies; 3 Complicity and the Sexual Exploitation of Children - A Case Study; 4 Sustainability's Social Side; 5 Thinking Like a Stakeholder; 6 The Voice of the Stakeholder; 7 Sociological Impacts; 8 Signs of Impact; 9 Reporting Social Impact; 10 Measuring Economic Impact; 11 Investing in Impact; 12 Social Footprint; 13 Accounting for Social Impact; 14 The Elusiveness of the Social Revisited

Appendix I: Market ResearchAppendix II: Analysis of GRI Social Indicators; Appendix III: SROI Case Study; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-54278-7

1-136-54279-5

1-282-61736-2

9786612617362

1-84977-490-0

9781849774901

OCLC:

609863807