Corporate Social Responsibility Books

New and Published Books

1. Innovating for Sustainability

   Green Entrepreneurship in Personal Mobility

   By Luca Berchicci

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   One of the challenges met by green entrepreneurs and product developers who have tried to develop more sustainable products is that efforts to have better products in environmental terms do not always translate into effective business cases. The purpose of this book is a better understanding of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Creating a Sustainable Economy

   An Institutional and Evolutionary Approach to Environmental Policy

   Edited by Gerardo Marletto

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   This book is designed for those scholars, students, policy-makers – or just curious readers – who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy. Contributions to this book draw on multiple streams of institutional and evolutionary economics and help build an...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability

   Edited by Jesse Dillard, Veronica Dujon, Mary C. King

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity....

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Business Regulation and Non-State Actors

   Whose Standards? Whose Development?

   Edited by Peter Utting, Darryl Reed, Ananya Reed

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations...

   Published January 23rd 2012 by Routledge
5. Tourism and Hospitality

   Issues and Developments

   Edited by Jaime Seba

   Tourism has become a key global economic activity as expectations with regard to our use of leisure time have evolved, attributing greater meaning to our free time. Tourism is one of the world s largest industries, and in many regions it is the single largest source of investment and employment....

   Published December 14th 2011 by Apple Academic Press
6. Leadership for Environmental Sustainability

   Edited by Benjamin W. Redekop

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Ethics

   As the first book in the field of leadership studies to approach sustainability as a multi-faceted leadership challenge, Leadership for Environmental Sustainability will help to set the terms of the discussion on this topic among students, scholars, and practitioners of leadership for years to come...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Green Executive

   Corporate Leadership in a Low Carbon Economy

   By Gareth Kane

   Over the last five years, the corporate sustainability debate has shifted from one of compliance to one of strategic competitive advantage. Accordingly, responsibility for environmental and sustainability issues has risen from management functions to director level executives. The Green Executive...

   Published July 31st 2011 by Routledge
8. Corporate Social Responsibility in India

   By Bidyut Chakrabarty

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Presenting an analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India, this book looks at the unique roots of the concept in India. It examines Gandhi’s philosophical moorings that inform India’s approach to CSR, and the role of civil society in setting an agenda for championing the rights of...

   Published June 26th 2011 by Routledge
9. Green Business, Green Values, and Sustainability

   Edited by Christos Pitelis, Jack Keenan, Vicky Pryce

   Series: Routledge Studies in Corporate Governance

   Today greenness is goodness; non-greenness is not an option. It is therefore critical to advance thinking on why and how business, consumers and policy makers can contribute to the goal of sustainable global wealth creation. This volume analyzes the strategic sustainability issues confronting...

   Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
10. Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia

    Edited by Kyoko Fukukawa

    Series: Routledge International Business in Asia

    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an important issue in contemporary business, management and politics, especially since the launch of the United Nations Global Compact in 2000 as an initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to...

    Published March 15th 2011 by Routledge