1st Edition

Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development Exploring the nexus of private and public interests

Edited By Lez Rayman-Bacchus, Philip Walsh Copyright 2016
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Corporate responsibility and sustainable development are two concepts that may be able to reconcile many of the big challenges facing the world; challenges such as tensions between respect for the natural environment, social justice, and economic development; the long view versus short-term imperatives and the competing priorities between developed and developing economies. This book explores... Read more

Introduction  Part 1. Challenging Corporate Accountability  1. Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Accountability: A Historical Overview Alexios Antypas,, Magdalena Paszkiewicz, and Stephen Stec  2. Corporate Human Rights Risk: Reconciling Law and Firm Behaviour Audrey Mocle  Part 2. Community Interests and Responsibility  3. A Space of Isolation: entrepreneurship in a time of crisis in Italy Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco  4. Locating Local Community Interests between Government’s Assurances and Investor’s Expectations Ciprian N. Radavoi  Part 3. Reconciling Stakeholder Expectations  5. Health and well-being vulnerability of the socio-economically disadvantaged: The role of food Louise Manning  6. Explaining Corporate Social Performance through Multilevel Analysis Orr Karassin and Aviad Bar-Haim  Part 4. Effecting Sustainable Partnerships  7. A Theory of Public-Private Sustainable Development Partnerships Duane Windsor  8. Meta-regulation for Environmental Monitoring and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Nadia B. Ahmad  9. Timber companies and state building in the Congo Basin Andrea Iff  Conclusions

Biography

Lez Rayman-Bacchus is Visiting Research Fellow at University of Winchester Business School, UK.

Philip R. Walsh is Associate Professor at Ryerson University, Canada.