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The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility

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Crane, Andrew; McWilliams, Abagail; Matten, Dirk; Moon, Jeremy; Siegel, Donald S. (Eds.) (2008) The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility (Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management), New York: Oxford University Press Inc.

Product Description: Business schools, the media, the corporate sector, governments, and non-governmental organizations have all begun to pay more attention to issues of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in recent years. These issues encompass broad questions about the changing relationship between business, society and government, environmental issues, corporate governance, the social and ethical dimensions of management, globalization, stakeholder debates, shareholder and consumer activism, changing political systems and values, and the ways in which corporations can respond to new social imperatives.

This Oxford Handbook is an authoritative review of the academic research that has both prompted, and responded to, these issues. Bringing together leading experts in the area, it provides clear thinking and new perspectives on CSR and the debates around it.
The Handbook is divided into seven key sections:
* Introduction,
* Perspectives on CSR,
* Critiques of CSR,
* Actors and Drivers,
* Managing CSR,
* CSR in Global Context,
* Future Perspectives and Conclusions

About the Authors: Andrew Crane is the George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics in the Schulich School of Business at York University. He has a PhD in Management from the University of Nottingham, and was previously Chair in Business Ethics and Director of the UK's first MBA in CSR in the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School.
Abagail McWilliams, PhD, is a Professor in the College of Business, University of Illinois -Chicago and since 2002 has been a Visiting Professor in the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility -University of Nottingham. Her research on CSR has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Management Studies.
Dirk Matten holds the Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. He holds a doctoral degree and the habilitation from Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf, Germany. He is interested in CSR, business ethics and comparative management. He has published widely, including in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, and Business Ethics Quarterly.
Jeremy Moon is Professor and Director of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School. Recent publications include Corporations and Citizenship (Cambridge University Press) and papers in Academy of Management Review and British Journal of Management. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Donald S. Siegel is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of California, Riverside. Recent publications include Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change (Oxford University Press) and articles on CSR in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and Leadership Quarterly. He is editor of the Journal of Technology Transfer, an associate editor of the Journal of Business Venturing and the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Learning & Education, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

 

Corporate Social Responsibility as an International Strategy

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Keinert, Christina (2008) Corporate Social Responsibility as an International Strategy (Contributions to Economics), Physica-Verlag.

Product Description: CSR, a concept aimed at determining the amount of responsibilities to be shouldered by private business toward stakeholder groups and society at large, deserves to be dealt with in considerable detail and not simply as another "PR fuzz" or marketing gag. As a model, CSR epitomises the old saying "business is business"; offering broader stakeholder management which can be seen as a competitive advantage.

Increased financial performance and employee commitment are among the benefits the CSR model can offer corporations. This discussion presents practitioners and scholars with a unique examination of how firms can maximise productivity through the implementation of CSR programs.

This publication discusses how CSR addresses business concerns of feasibility, barriers and drivers of internal and external practice; and whether a CSR program is likely to constitute a success or failure.

 

The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Complete Reference Guide to Concepts, Codes and Organisations

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Visser, Wayne; Dirk Matten, Dirk;  Pohl, Manfred; and Nick Tolhurst, Nick (2008) The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Complete Reference Guide to Concepts, Codes and Organisations. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Product Description: This is the world’s first complete reference on CSR, compiled by the Institute for Corporate Cultural Affairs (the ICCA). The entries have been written by leading experts, leading global thinkers and CSR practitioners.

In these pages lie the answers to questions such as:

What do we mean by CSR?
In what way are organizations viewed as citizens of the countries in which they operate?
How does a company know when it is operating in a sustainable way
What is ethical investment?
The reference also lists and describes the most important organizations and landmarks in the field of CSR.

The book comprises 339 terms, which are split into core concepts, key words and definitions to form the standard reference for managers, academics, teachers, students, officials and volunteers in the field of CSR.

This is a timely and innovative contribution to the field of Corporate Social Responsibility – the definitive terminology reference on CSR, business society relations and the organizations and standards in the field.

Review
"This is a timely and innovative contribution to the field of Corporate Social Responsibility"  (Retail & Leisure International, February 2008)
"...a handy reference to have on the shelf behind your desk..." (Ethical Perormance, February 2008)

 

Managing Corporate Social Responsibility in Action

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Hond, Frank Den, De Bakker, Frank G.A., Neergaard, Peter (Eds.) (2007) Managing Corporate Social Responsibility in Action (Corporate Social Responsibility Series), Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing

Book Description: In this volume, the authors focus on different aspects of managing CSR in action to capture differences between discourse and practice. By examining the question from three angles - talking about CSR, doing CSR and measuring CSR - they attempt to make sense of the difference between practice and reality.

From the Inside Flap: Since the mid 1990s political and public debates about the social responsibilities of firms have gained renewed force. Although CSR seems to be a well defined concept in management literature, in its diverse applications the CSR concept loses much of its pertinence. In Managing Corporate Social Responsibility in Action, the authors focus on different aspects of managing CSR in action to capture differences between discourse and practice. By examining the question from three angles - talking about CSR, doing CSR and measuring CSR - they attempt to make sense of the difference between practice and reality. This volume considers ways to overcome the difficulties that arise around CSR in action.

About the Author: Dr Frank den Hond and Dr Frank de Bakker are both from the Department of Public Administration and Organization Science, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands. Peter Neergaard is Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

 

Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy

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Lawrence, Anne T. and Weber, James. (2007) Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 12th edition.

BUSINESS AND SOCIETY: Stakeholder Relations, Ethics and Public Policy by Lawrence and Weber has continued through several successive author teams to be the market-leader in its field. The 12th edition highlights why government regulation is sometimes required as well as new models of business-community collaboration. The authors believe that businesses have social (as well as economic) responsibilities to society; that business and government both have important roles to play in the modern economy; and that ethics and integrity are essential to personal fulfillment and to business success. In addition, this textbook has long been popular with students because of its lively writing, up-to-date examples, and clear explanations of theory.

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