1st Edition

Cranfield on Corporate Sustainability

By David Grayson Copyright 2012
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Business schools have a special contribution to make in developing globally responsible, critical and independent-thinking future leaders and managers. In fact, the Cranfield School of Management acknowledges this as one of its important responsibilities. Its core ideology is to transform the practice of learning and create leaders who action their knowledge and become stewards of the common... Read more
Foreword Nigel Doughty (1957–2012)  Introduction: The business of business is sustainable business Professor Frank Horwitz, Director, Cranfield School of Management  1. Overview of embedding corporate sustainability David Grayson, Director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility and Professor of Corporate Responsibility  2. Embedding corporate sustainability as a knowledge-creation journey  Dr Patrick Reinmoeller, Professor of Strategic Management  3. Philosopher, poet, trickster: New role models for corporately responsible leaders  Dr Donna Ladkin, Professor of Leadership and Ethics  4. Embedding the governance of responsibility in the business of the board Andrew Kakabadse, Professor of International Management DevelopmentDavid Grayson, Professor of Corporate Responsibility  5. Strategic business performance for sustainability Dr Mike Bourne, Professor of Business PerformancePippa Bourne Regional Director, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and WalesDr David Ferguson, Visiting Fellow, Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility  6. Sustainability and new product development Dr Keith Goffin, Professor of Innovation and New Product Development  7. Issues in sustainable marketing Dr Lynette Ryals, Professor of Strategic Sales and Account Management and Director of the Demand Chain Management CommunityDr Paul BainesDr Radu DimitriuProf. Simon KnoxDr Emma MacdonaldDr Javier Marcos-Cuevas  8. Implementing sustainable marketing Dr Lynette Ryals, Professor of Strategic Sales and Account Management, and Director of the Demand Chain Management CommunityDr Shahpar AbdollahiDr Stan MaklanProf. Hugh Wilson  9. Towards more sustainable supply chain management  Mike Bernon, Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain ManagementDr Carlos MenaDr Andrew PalmerDr Alan SmartDr Heather SkipworthSimon Templar  10. Enabling the change: Corporate sustainability and employee engagement  Dr David Ferguson, Visiting Fellow, Doughty Centre for Corporate ResponsibilityDr Martin Clarke, Programmes and Business Director, Centre for General Management Development  11. Sense and sustainability Sharon Jackson, Associate at the Centre for Customised Executive Development  12. Telling it like it is: Reporting sustainability performance Dr Ruth Bender, Reader in Corporate Financial Strategy  Appendix: How Cranfield School of Management is embedding corporate sustainability in its own work

Biography

David Grayson