Corporate social performance : reflecting on the past and investing in the future / edited by Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stachowicz-Stanusch, Agata, editor.

Series:

Contemporary perspectives in corporate social performance and policy (Series)

Contemporary perspectives in corporate social performance and policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social responsibility of business.

Corporations--Moral and ethical aspects.

Corporations.

Corporate governance--Social aspects.

Corporate governance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Incorporated, [2017]

Summary:

Corporate Social Performance - reflecting on the past and investing in the future is aimed at filling the fundamental gap that exists in our understanding of the drivers Corporate Social Performance, its evolution and relationships with the existing concepts and theories and the paradoxes that come from those connections. Moreover the volume aims at shedding the light on most important pitfalls that may occur while CSP application in business practice. The last but not least reason for its publishing is to show Corporate Social Performance as a significant pathway to the better world, that, as I hope, will be the inspiration for the readers.This book is authored by a range of international experts and scientists from all over the world with a diversity of professional and cultural backgrounds what hopefully will give the readers the opportunity to understand the CSP concept from different perspectives.

Contents:

Introduction

Corporate social performance: Paradoxes, pitfalls and pathways to the better world / Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch

Corporate social performance : Evolution of the theory

Corporate social responsibility: The evolution, theories, and critics / Abubakr M. Suliman, Hadil T. Al-Khatib, and Sumina E. Thomas

Varieties of global responsibility : Culture and institutional diversity in csr / Emmanouela Mandalaki and Gazi Islam

Sustainability in action at the corporate, industry, and national level / Zabihollah Rezaee and Saeid Homayoun

The whats, whys, and hows of corporate social responsibility / Carolyn Wiley

Corporate social performance relationships with other concepts

Corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability : How are they related? / Angela Dettori and Ernestina Giudici

The relationship between corporate social and financial performance / Augustin Suessmair and Alexandra F. Fronzek

The whats, whys, and hows of corporate social responsibility : Social needs, social goods, and values-based management / Li-Hwa Hung

Increasing corporate social responsibility and breaking the toxic triangle through the exercise of human agency / Sharon E. Norris

Corporate social performance : Specific problems

Strategic corporate social performance measurement : Harmonizing short and long-term social impact / Shiv K. Tripathi and Wolfgang Amann

Under-representation of women in boardrooms : A matter of corporate irresponsibility? / Miriam Nuñez-Torrado

About the authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-68123-640-0